Jacques Amalric
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Jacques Amalric | |
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 Jacques Amalric, journalist, at Le Monde newspaper in 1967. | |
| Born | 6 October 1938 |
| Died | 4 June 2021 (aged 82) |
Jacques Amalric (6 October 1938 – 4 June 2021) was a French journalist.[1] He was the editor-in-chief of Le Monde.[2][3] His son is actor Mathieu Amalric.
Biography
After studying political economy and partially performing a military service in Algeria, Jacques entered journalism at La Dépêche du Midi.[4] In 1963, recruited by Hubert Beuve-Méry, he entered the newspaper Le Monde as a journalist in the foreign service and was correspondent for the daily in Washington (1970-1973), where he covered in particular Watergate, then in Moscow (1973-1977),[5] where, opposed to Brejnev's policy, he attracts the wrath of the KGB.[6]
In 1980, he was a candidate for the succession of Jacques Fauvet at the head of the daily in the first election of a director by journalists – a world first in the press of the press, – finally won by Claude Julien.[7] In 1994, he joined the newspaper Liberation – of which he was the editorial director from 2000 to 2002 succeeding Frédéric Filloux – where he wrote until 2006.[8] Finally, withdrawn in Corsica where he settled with his second wife, Isaline de Commarmond,[9] he then supported the information site on rue89[10] by becoming a minority shareholder and holds a chronicle for economic alternatives.[11]
Finally, having retired to Corsica where he settled with his second wife, Isaline de Comarmond, he then supported the news website Rue89[12] by becoming a minority shareholder and wrote a column for Alternatives économiques.[13]
References
- ^ "Jacques Amalric". Libération.
- ^ "Le journaliste Jacques Amalric, ancien chef du service étranger du " Monde ", est mort". 5 June 2021 – via Le Monde.
- ^ "Media-Sceren, catalogue des collections audiovisuelles du CNDP". www.cndp.fr.
- ^ Aumont, Jacques (2021), "Le monde est invisible", Doublures du visible, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 15–36, retrieved 16 September 2022
- Centre national de documentation pédagogique.
- ^ "Disparition de Jacques Amalric, journaliste exigeant, témoin des convulsions d'un demi-siècle". L'Obs (in French). 5 June 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
- ^ Élection : direction du monde, reportage de Bruno Masure dans le journal télévisé de TF1 le 20 février 1980 ; sur le site de l'INA
- Libération
- ^ Jacques Amalric, un journaliste qui en imposait, Marc Semo, 8 juin 2021, Libération.
- ^ « Mathieu Amalric : "Pour moi, au début, jouer n’était pas travailler" », Rue89, 8 septembre 2013.
- ^ Disparition de Jacques Amalric, journaliste exigeant, témoin des convulsions d’un demi-siècle, Pascal Riché, L'Obs, 5 juin 2021.
- ^ Semo, Marc. "Jacques Amalric, un journaliste qui en imposait". Libération (in French). Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Disparition de Jacques Amalric, journaliste exigeant, témoin des convulsions d'un demi-siècle". L'Obs (in French). 5 June 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
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