The new
baseline
for France
24 is
“Liberté,
Egalité,
Actualité”
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ISSUE 1 2014
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THE CHANNEL
France Médias Monde is the group in charge of French international broadcasting,
consisting of trilingual news TV channel France 24, international radio station RFI and
Arabic-language radio Monte Carlo Doualiya. Under CEO Marie-Christine Saragosse
the broadcasters that make up FMM are redefining their roles – so what are the
challenges and the opportunities?
irstly, the France 24,
RFI and Monte
Carlo Doualiya
project reflects a
desire to create ever
more singular
benchmark media.
Though our three stations each
have their own strong, distinctive
identities, they all provide
international news and share
common values and editorial
objectives. Our channels are very
diverse, but they all uphold core
commitments, such as the promotion
of freedom, the independence and
pluralism of information, the
defence of universal values, etc.
These commitments, which involve
giving everyone a voice, being
impartial in our jobs and working
as closely as possible to the
situation on the ground, mean that
journalists from a group like ours
are particularly exposed. Today’s
world features a growing number
of conflict zones and the journalist’s
status has changed. I am thinking
of and would like to pay tribute to
our special correspondents from
RFI, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude
Verlon, two highly experienced
professionals who were kidnapped
and assassinated in North Mali on
November 2nd last year. We will
not forget them.
To make the excellent work of
our journalists accessible and
broadcast their voices and their
images to audiences all over the
world, our strategy has always
been very clear: build up a global
offer for a global reach in a
globalised world. We have to be
multi‐territory, multimedia and
multilingual.
First of all, we need to be visible
with France Médias Monde media
on a global scale. If you are not
visible, you cannot be seen, or heard.
And we have 14 different linguistic
versions, including Radio France
Internationale (RFI), which
represents 42 different radio signals
in 13 languages, Monte Carlo
Doualiya (MCD), the French radio
in Arabic, and the three channels of
France 24 which broadcasts in French,
English and Arabic to more than
250m households across the world.
F
REDEFINITION
