Marie-Christine Saragosse reappointed as head of France Médias Monde for a third term
Marie-Christine Saragosse, here in October 2022, was reappointed for five years as President of France Médias Monde (FMM) on January 11, 2023. © Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP
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The Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) announced on Wednesday January 11 the reappointment of Marie-Christine Saragosse as head of France Médias Monde, the public audiovisual group outside of France that she heads. since 2012. At 62, she was facing four other candidates, all auditioned this week by Arcom.
The French audiovisual regulator therefore renewed it for another 5 years.
This is the third mandate of Marie-Christine Saragosse at the head of the group which includes our radio station, RFI, the television channel France 24 and the Arabic-language radio station Monte-Carlo Doualiya (MCD).
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Reappointing Marie-Christine Saragosse as head of France Médias Monde is a choice.
Arcom makes no secret of it: stability in a difficult context on several counts, financial and geopolitical in particular.
Starting with that of the financing of public broadcasting, upset by the abolition in 2022 of the "venerable" fee.
She was nearly 90 years old and is being replaced for the time being by a reassignment of a percentage of VAT.
With a major challenge for RFI, MCD and France 24 and their president: to preserve "
the bond of trust
" with listeners and viewers "
which passes
" - these are the words of Marie-Christine Saragosse - by "
free and independent international information
".
Which could be summed up as follows: public media yes, state media no.
While RFI and France 24 have been banned in Mali since April, in a context of strong tensions between Paris and Bamako.
RFI having also been suspended in Burkina Faso in December.
Context in which the regulatory authority has chosen "
to favor the experience acquired at the head of the group by Marie-Christine Saragosse
" since her first appointment in 2012. It is up to her to initiate "
a new phase of its digital development
" , FMM's Achilles' heel for the candidates facing him.
Finally, Arcom calls for a strengthening of “
social dialogue
” in a group that employs 1,750 people and hundreds of correspondents around the world.
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