All week, the Bayard group has been on an uproar. The announcement, on Monday, November 25, of the hiring of the former right-hand man of ultra-conservative billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, Alban du Rostu, for the position of strategy director, ignited wildfire in the press and children’s publishing. . This is what the Catholic newspaper publishes. the crossthe weekly the pilgrimthe monthly our time and emblematic titles of the children’s press (api apple, Astrapi, Okapi, I like reading…).
The employees see in this a desire to guide the group’s line of openness and social Catholicism, due to the pedigree of this new recruit: Alban du Rostu participated in the launch of Stérin’s political project, called “Pericles”, with the aim of freeing the battle. of ideas at the service of identity, conservative and liberal values. This appointment follows the decision of the new president of Bayard to partner in particular with the conservative Vincent Bolloré for the purchase of the ESJ journalism school in Paris, a private school not recognized by the profession.
François Morinière has already been chosen to lead Bayard (appointed in spring 2024, took office on 1Ahem November – was internally interpreted as a desire to remember the religious foundations of the group, and in particular of its youth branch, the most profitable, following a change at the head of the congregation in the summer of 2023. The takeover of Morinière, nearby to Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was also the subject of a mass organized by the Assumptionists, according to information collected by the world. An unusual fact, even within this Catholic press group.
“No reactions in our newsroom, no fascists in our facilities”between 200 and 300 employees chanted outside the Bayard facility in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine) on Thursday, November 28, in the early afternoon, during an hour-long strike, ahead of a possible strike next week. Never seen before, according to several employees, almost surprised by the vigor of the mobilization in a press group that has no culture of confrontation.
At the same time, in Toulouse, another rally took place in front of the premises of the Milan Presse subsidiary (Moose, 1day1news). The day before, during the inauguration of the Montreuil Children’s Book Fair (Seine-Saint-Denis), a banner “In Bayard there is no place for the extreme right” several employees had exhibited at the Bayard jeunesse stand and Mr. Morinière had been questioned by the author Murielle Szac. “Without the authors you will have nothing left to sell”He warned him.
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