Journalist, essayist and writer, Jean Daniel founded Le Nouvel Observateur in 1964. Originally from Algeria in the French era, like his friend Albert Camus, this lover of literature embodied a centre-left press, participating in all the major debates of his time.
Jean Daniel, in an editorial conference surrounded by his collaborators of the New Observer, reads and gives his opinion on an article on Humanity written by Vincent Labeyrie [precursor of political ecology].
Jean Daniel on stage, gives his definition of journalist. He is the owner of a message that leads to his subjectivity and therefore an opinion journalist.
Jean Daniel, Director of the New Observer, is interviewed in his office and returns to the historical context when the newspaper was created in 1964, after the war in Algeria, "a failure of a people".
Jean Daniel, director of the New Observer, found in his role as an editorial writer the means to express his contradictions and get closer to the real.