"Further investigation" is over for Jacques Cardoze. From the start of the school year, the presenter will be replaced by a regular on this investigative program: Tristan Waleckx. The journalist, awarded an Albert-Londres prize four years earlier, will take the reins of the France 2 program at the start of the school year. He reacted to his appointment in the Culture-Médias program on Europe 1, Thursday.
A new face on the screen on France 2. Tristan Waleckx will present
Complément d'
études
on the public channel at the start of the school year.
"This appointment, it moves me", ruled the journalist at the microphone of
Culture-Media
on Europe 1, Thursday.
"It's the show that made me, it is within this show that I learned to do magazine, to do investigation," says Tristan Waleckx, happy to find the show again. 'investigation.
The journalist had been recruited by Benoit Duquesne, the founder.
"He taught me never to take it easy," continues Tristan Waleckx.
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Tristan Waleckx, who currently works for
Special Envoy
, was chosen from among many other candidates. He was chosen for his experience and for his investigative work, rewarded four years ago. He then received one of the most prestigious prizes in journalism, the Albert-Londres Prize, for an investigation into Vincent Bolloré. More recently, he worked on the Bygmalion affair and the Pénélope Fillon affair. His appointment confirms the important place of the investigation on the public service. "We are in a somewhat particular context from a media point of view. We are one year away from the presidential election. There is a desire on the part of France Télévisions to display total independence, a journalism that can scratch" , says Tristan Waleckx.
"To do ambitious, daring and general interest journalism"
This is what he wants "to try to accentuate within
Complement survey
".
Tristan Waleckx announces his ambition to "do ambitious, daring and general interest journalism".
But he nuances all the same: "It remains a generalist program, there will be no political-financial investigation every week".
For him, it is a desire of the channel "to mark its differences compared to other competitors who no longer necessarily have the chance to be able to put on their air ambitious investigations and real journalism of public interest", he explains.
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Tristan Waleckx will take up his post at the start of the school year.
Until then,
Complémentquête will
continue to be presented by Jacques Cardoze.
The presenter will then leave journalism to become the communications director of Olympique de Marseille.
It is he who will be on the air this Thursday evening at 10:55 pm on France 2 for the program "'Cancel culture', minorities, who are the new censors?".