The Guardian writes of the French international news channel France 24: “Engulfed in rivalries and recriminations, the newsroom has been plunged into crisis, with one union threatening a strike and another planning a vote of no-confidence. Journalists mutter about a “battle of the bosses” fuelling dissent. One even likened the atmosphere to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre: vicious, unrelenting and very, very, bloody.”
The newspaper quotes a former freelancer with the English version of France 24 as saying that the “sweatshop atmosphere” of the channel meant that journalists at Radio France International, part of the same public media group, felt better off. “Journalists who have worked at both RFI and France24 consistently prefer the former to the latter, despite poorer pay,” she said.
