Jean-Louis SERVAN-SCHREIBER questions Hubert BEUVE-MERY, founding director of the daily "Le Monde", about the management of a newspaper by a committee of editors. He thinks it is impossible, he quotes the newly created daily "Liberation".
The cartoonists CABU ("Charlie Hebdo", "Le Canard enchaîné") and SOULAS ("Libération") exchange their views on the place of press drawing within "Libération" and the evolution of the newspaper.
Report on the financial difficulties of the newspaper "Libération" which needs a recovery plan. The Chargeurs Group proposes to finance it but the plan is rejected by the employee representatives as it provides for the elimination of 95 jobs. Interview with Marie-Laure COLSON, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Catherine ERHEL, CFDT delegate, Jean-Marie CHARON, Professor CFPJ, Guy BENAMOU, Managing Director of the Society of Editors.
Report on the departure of Serge JULY from the newspaper Libération which he co-founded and directed for 33 years. This announcement follows a disagreement between the former director and the main shareholder Edouard de ROTHSCHILD and to allow a refinancing plan of the daily. Portrait of this "Citizen JULY" and on the climate that is deteriorating within the editorial staff for some time. Commentary on factual and archival images that alternate with the interviews of François WENZ-DUMAS, delegate of the SNJ trade union and Josée GARCON, journalist at the foreign service who react to this announcement.
Presentation of the new format of the newspaper Libération: Libé 3. With a new format and more local reporting, it hopes to attract young people and retain occasional readers. Images of the printing of the newspaper, the newsroom, as well as the new sections, completed by an interview with Serge JULY patron of Libération.
Presentation of the latest news of the newspaper Libération: advertisements, columns of the Bourse, far from the primary aspirations of the newspaper created by Jean Paul Sartre.
Interview with Serge JULY, director of the newspaper Libération, who explains his fight to keep a total independence of everyday life thanks to the self-financing system and not depend on advertising.
Another new formula for the daily Libération in order to win back readers who have strayed from the newspaper. A year ago the paper suffered because of a social plan. Alternating plans of writing at work and newspaper draws with interviews of staff. - Interview with Johan HUFNAGEL, Director of Libération, on the new information processing and extensible formats (stories). - Interview with Laurent JOFFRIN, Editorial Director on the reorganization of the paper and online editorial team.
A report on the newspaper Libération, which has interrupted its publication and is publishing a special issue taking stock of the daily since its creation. Interviews of journalists Jean Marcel BOUGUEREAU, Rémy KOLPA KOPOUL and Françoise FILLINGER about this issue "memorial" alternating with factual images of the newsroom in full work.
Interview with graphic designer Claude MAGGIORI, of the Agence Editoriale, creator of the new Libé. It explains the changes made to the logo, the format and the new internal organization of the information whose objective is to give a more modern and dynamic aspect to this daily life.