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Paul Fels, former editor-in-chief at RFI, has passed away
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It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Paul Fels, former editor-in-chief at RFI, on Tuesday, April 25 at the age of 83.
Paul Fels was a great journalist, but also a great teacher, who transmitted his passion to thousands of African colleagues.
Born in 1940, a former student of the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ), he joined OCORA, the Radio Cooperation Office, the ancestor of RFI, in the early 1960s. Then he participated in the creation of RFI. He is then an off-road reporter. In the late 1970s, he made his first foray into teaching at IFP, the Institut français de presse. In 1981, back at RFI, he assisted Hervé Bourges in the development of world radio. In 1983, he moved to Valence, in the south-east of France, where he created Radio France Drôme. In 1987, he returned to RFI until 1998 as editor-in-chief, notably at the head of the Africa antenna and the MFI print agency. At the same time, he teaches in many journalism schools, at CESTI in Dakar, at ESIJY in Yaoundé and at ESJ in Lille.
In the 2000s, he went to Madagascar, where he organized a training circuit for journalists in the most remote radio stations of the Big Island, with a mobile studio installed in a... 4L!
At the time of retirement, Paul Fels moved to Larnagol (Lot), in the south-west of the France, where he was elected municipal councillor. Then, in recent years, he became closer to his daughter, who lives in Le Havre. Since his death, all testimonies highlight his extreme kindness and his great professionalism. He was both brilliant and impertinent.
All our thoughts are with his family, friends and all those who knew him.
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