A meeting is planned between our journalism students and Jérôme Fenoglio, director of Le Monde and Gilles Van Kote, deputy director of Le Monde.
Jérôme Fenoglio is a graduate of ESJ. He joined Le Monde in 1991 as a reporter in the sports department. In 1996, he was put in charge of the "exclusion" section in the Society department, before becoming deputy head of the department in 1999, and then head until 2004. He then joined the Science department as an editor, before being appointed deputy editor-in-chief of "Le Monde 2" in 2007. In 2009, he joined the major reporters department. In 2011, Erik Izraelewicz appointed him editor-in-chief of Le Monde.fr. In May 2013, he joined the major reporters department. In 2014, Gilles van Kote, acting director of Le Monde, appointed Jérôme Fenoglio director of editorial services. Jérôme Fenoglio was then elected director of Le Monde in June 2015 for a six-year term. His mandate was renewed in 2021.
Le Monde's Deputy Director in charge of reader relations, Gilles van Kote is also the organiser of the Festival International de Journalisme, an event for the general public held every summer in the Lot-et-Garonne region of France. A print journalist specializing in sports and then environmental issues, he was Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Le Monde group from 2009 to 2014, then Acting Director of Le Monde from 2014 to 2015.
Photo: Gilles van Kote and Jérôme Fenoglio
