"France Inter or BFMTV, you have to choose": Radio France unions oppose Benjamin Duhamel's combination of functions

For Radio France employees, this is not going down well. The Society of Journalists of the public company and six unions have protested Benjamin Duhamel 's combining hosting a slot on France Inter's morning show with hosting a program on BFMTV this fall, urging him to choose. When questioned by AFP on Thursday, June 5, France Inter management declined to comment.

In a press release issued Wednesday evening, the SDJ, the Society of Producers of France Inter (SDPI) and the CGT, CFDT, FO, SNJ, Sud and Unsa unions of Radio France denounced "a mixture of functions, one in a private media group (RMC BFM) and the other on our public service radio."

The political journalist will conduct an interview every morning on France Inter , in the slot previously occupied by Sonia Devillers at 7:50 a.m. At the same time, he will continue to host the program Tout le monde veut savoir on BFMTV, from Monday to Thursday at 6:50 p.m., but will stop the Sunday program C'est pas tous les jours dimanche .

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The SDJ and the unions point to possible "editorial conflicts" and believe that this situation "risks reinforcing, in the eyes of the public, a deplorable feeling of collusion between media and insularity." "France Inter or BFMTV, we must choose," they argue in this text, also supported by the Society of Directors of France Inter and the collective of programmers of France's leading station.

In the past, other France Inter presenters and journalists have nevertheless held positions in the private sector, such as Antoine de Caunes and Augustin Trapenard at Canal +.