France Culture Director Sandrine Treiner holds a press conference in Paris on August 27, 2019. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP
“I have decided to leave the management of France Culture. “Through a very lengthy internal email sent at lunchtime on Tuesday 24th January, Sandrine Treiner announced to her teams her decision to withdraw. The director chose not to wait for the conclusions of the report requested by Radio France’s management after an investigation published in September in Libération reported on “brutality” at the station’s management. These results were expected for the next week.
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In this message, Sandrine Treiner takes stock of all the measures she has taken during the eight years she has spent at the helm of the channel, which has reached unprecedented viewership (3.1% cumulative viewership at the last Médiamétrie- Measurement). Acknowledging that the house was sometimes riddled with “disagreements,” she sketches a mea culpa: “Sometimes obviously compounded by the distance, the separation, the difficulty of getting together, the reduction in informal times, sometimes the speed of development, stress.” , Topic overload, we didn’t get along very well. I take full responsibility here. »
A “new momentum”
In her eyes, everything is “more dangerous for women,” she writes. “I have paid the price myself in the past. For responsible women in a special way. Here we are subject to contradictory orders, largely entrenched social representations, to which we sometimes find it difficult to react and which we sometimes unfortunately help to maintain,” she explains.
“It is close to my heart to enable France Culture to find a climate of serenity through this difficult personal decision,” explains World Sandrine Treiner. After eight years of leadership, new impetus was needed anyway. The leader, who describes those around her as “moved,” is expected to leave her post at the end of the week. Radio France’s General Management will shortly announce internally the system it intends to put in place for his successor. Names are already circulating to replace them, starting with that of Marc Voinchet, currently at the helm of France Musique.