Edwy Plenel

Edwy Plenel
Born Hervé Edwy Plenel
(1952-08-31) 31 August 1952
Nantes, France
Nationality French
Occupation Journalist
Employer Le Monde (1980–2005)
Mediapart (2008–present)

Hervé Edwy Plenel (born 31 August 1952) is a French political journalist.

Biography

Early life

Plenel spent his childhood in Martinique and his youth in Algeria. He studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.

Career

His career began in 1976 as a journalist for Rouge, the official newspaper of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League (LCR – Ligue communiste révolutionnaire). He briefly worked for Le Matin de Paris in 1980, before moving to the French newspaper Le Monde, where he worked as the paper's education editor (1980–82), legal columnist (1982–90), a reporter (1991), head of the legal department (1992–94), chief editor (1994–95), assistant editorial director (1995–96), editor (1996–2000), and editor-in-chief (2000–04).[1]

From 1985 to 1986, while working for Le Monde, he was one of the targets of a wiretapping scandal perpetrated by a secret presidential anti-terrorism cell, which he had implicated in the "Irish of Vincennes" affair for framing three Irish nationals on terrorism charges.[2]

In 2001, he was awarded the Prix Médicis essai for his essay Secrets de jeunesse (Secrets of Youth).[3]

He resigned from the editorial staff of Le Monde in November 2004,[4] and left the newspaper in October 31st, 2005. He is currently the publisher of Mediapart, an Internet-based subscription journal which he founded in 2008.

Bibliography

References

  1. World Who's Who, Routledge.
  2. Brodeur, Jean-Paul; Dupeyron, Nicolas (2003). "Democracy and secrecy: the French intelligence community". Democracy, law, and security: internal security services in contemporary Europe. UK: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 0754630021.
  3. Secrets de jeunesse de Edwy Plenel, Evene. (French)
  4. Henley, Jon (30 November 2004). "Le Monde editor quits as problems mount". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2012.

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