“A new start”, welcomes the group’s CEO

The economic daily is emerging from a year of crisis, after the massive approval by journalists of the candidate proposed by shareholder LVMH. The CEO of the Les Échos/Le Parisien group, Pierre Louette, welcomes his arrival, exclusively on franceinfo.

It’s a new cycle that starts, Monday April 29, 2024, for the economic newspaper The echoes. After a year without direction, the editorial team elected Christophe Jakubyszyn on Thursday with 213 votes to 20 to the position of editorial director. A way out of the crisis that satisfies Pierre Louette, the group’s CEO Les Échos/Le Parisien, who speaks for the first time, on franceinfo. “I welcome the arrival of Christophe Jakubyszyn who is a very great professional and who has obviously been completely dubbed by the editorial staff“, he explains.

Constantly increasing figures despite the internal crisis

According to Pierre Louette, the position did not remain entirely vacant since the editorial staff ensured permanence and ultimately the circulation of the newspaper has only increased over the past 14 years. “This is a record in France“, he explains, even if this absence of director slowed down the development projects. Those which were planned were carried out, in particular with the release of a new site, an application “to invest”but “a new project completely involving the editorial staff of “Échos”, it was not entirely possible.” “We are taking this new start, we are relying on the base which is very strong, which has been established and then we are going to move forward“, he promises.

For him, Christophe Jakubyszyn’s choice is that of dual culture. The journalist has in fact spent 14 years on a daily basis The world and just as much on BFM Business. Experience in the written press and on television which will also allow Echoes to move towards video production, like the Parisian who is the leader, especially on YouTube. “We have eight times more videos viewed than our major competitors ‘Le Figaro’, ‘Le Monde’. ‘Les Échos’ want to do a bit of the same now. That’s good, we have a man of images and writings arriving“, concludes Pierre Louette.

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