Thomas Fenton appointed Deputy Director at France 24

Marie-Christine Saragosse, CEO of France Médias Monde, has appointed Thomas Fenton as Deputy Director of France 24, in charge of the English service. He will take up his post on March 4, 2022.

A French-American graduate of Duke University in the United States, Thomas Fenton has spent his entire career working for major international news networks. He joined CNN in 1986, where for 26 years he successively held the positions of  Deputy Managing International Editor in Atlanta, Bureau Chief in Frankfurt and Jerusalem, Executive Producer in London, and Managing Editor for the Middle East in Abu Dhabi.

In 2011, he joined Al Jazeera as Executive Producer in Doha and then in New York. In 2019, he was called by CBS to help relaunch the CBS Evening News. For the past year, he has been Story Editor for “The Take”, an AJ English-language flagship podcast. Thomas Fenton has received numerous awards, including three Emmy Awards for CNN (1993, 2001, and 2012) for coverage of events during the wars in Somalia, Sierra Leone, and the Egyptian revolution.