Geoffroy Lejeune | |
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| Born | 3 September 1988 Avignon, France |
| Alma mater | Aix-Marseille University École supérieure de journalisme de Paris |
| Occupation | Editor-in-chief of Le Journal du Dimanche |
Geoffroy Lejeune (born 3 September 1988) is a French journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of Valeurs actuelles which is associated with the far right. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] In August 2023, he was made editor-in-chief of Le Journal du Dimanche . [7]
Geoffroy Lejeune was born on 3 September 1988. [8] He graduated from the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris in 2011. [9]
He became the political editor of Valeurs actuelles in 2015 and its editor-in-chief in 2016. [10] He became the youngest editor-in-chief in France. [9] As editor, he covered the whole spectrum of right-wing politics, from the far right to the centre right. [9] He also hired several young journalists, with a focus on investigative journalism. [10] In April 2017, he derided Le Monde , France's left-wing newspaper of record, for launching Decodex, a fact-checking app, and he suggested Valeurs actuelles should start fact-checking Le Monde. [11]
In September 2021, he was fined €1500 after Valeurs actuelles was found guilty of hate speech for publishing a seven page fictional story about La France Insoumise politician Danièle Obono in which the magazine depicted Obono as being captured and enslaved in the 18th century. [12]
In June 2023, he was fired from his position at Valeurs actuelles after a conflict with Iskandar Safa, the owner of the magazine, in which Safa accused Lejeune of being politically too far to the right. [13] Over the course of his tenure as editor-in-chief, the number of subscribers to the magazine declined by 10% and the number of visitors to its website decline by half. [14]
In 2023, media group Vivendi, mainly owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, announced that it would be acquiring the weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche and appointing Lejeune as its new editor-in-chief. The appointment proved controversial, with over 400 prominent cultural and political figures signing an open letter opposing his appointment and saying that "the first time since the Liberation of France, a large national media will be run by a far-right personality." [15] Human rights group Reporters Without Borders stated that the appointment would "threaten editorial independence in journalism." [16] In response to Lejeune's appointment, the staff of Le Journal du Dimanche launched a strike, leading to the newspaper missing publication two consecutive weeks for the first time in its history. [17]
Lejeune is the author of a political novel (Une élection ordinaire), published in 2015, in which conservative essayist Éric Zemmour is elected as the President of France. [18] [19]
Lejeune endorsed Éric Zemmour in the 2022 French presidential election. Politico has described him as a "proud friend" of far-right politician Marion Maréchal. [14] He has been described by France24 as "the pen and sword of the far-right" [20] and by Le Monde as a "reactionary crusader." [21]
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