Europe 1 with AFP 7:31 p.m., February 12, 2024
Journalist Edwy Plenel, 71, announced Monday to France Inter that he would leave the management of Mediapart, an investigative media outlet that he co-founded sixteen years ago, on March 14.
“It’s normal, it’s an orderly handover,” declared the current director of the publication, without revealing the name of his successor. “I will continue to write for Mediapart, I will continue to be present through my pen but I will not be the legal manager, the boss of the company,” added Edwy Plenel.
“It’s normal for it to live, independently of us”
“The miracle of Mediapart is that the team is essentially between 25 and 45 years old, I am 71. It is normal that it lives, independently of us”, underlined the journalist with the mustache, feared by political leaders of all stripes.
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With his team, he launched the Cahuzac affair at the end of 2012, named after the former socialist Budget Minister who was ousted after lying about his secret bank account held abroad. The online media has released a lot of information on the #MeToo movement, including testimonies on Gérard Depardieu or more recently on the psychoanalyst Gérard Miller.
Edwy Plenel joined the daily Le Monde in 1980, and took over as editor in 1995. In the 1980s, several cases involving the French presidency which he investigated, including the attack by the French secret services on the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship which campaigned against French nuclear tests in Polynesia, had aroused the ire of President François Mitterrand.