Presskit - April 2025

7

Marie-Christine

Saragosse

Chairperson

and Chief Executive Off icer

France 24,

a major channel!

In 2024, France 24 turned 18 years old — the

age of adulthood. But it has already been

a major channel in the global audiovisual

landscape for some time now.

Present in more than half a billion homes

on f ive continents, for all uses and on all

media, our network brings together nearly

150 million people every week around its

channels, providing digital offerings in French,

English, Arabic, and Spanish.

It owes its success f irst and foremost to the

talent, professionalism and commitment

of its teams, which number around forty

nationalities, in Paris and Bogotá, and to

the formidable network of correspondents

anchored in almost every country in the world.

At a time when the international context is

unstable and polarised, when fake news

and the manipulation of information are

proliferating, France 24 — like RFI and MCD,

the two radio stations in the France Médias

Monde Group — is a benchmark medium that

goes out into the f ield to check the facts and

provide the truth. Striving to present balanced

perspectives, we are also dedicated to

delivering free and independent information.

In short, our mission is to provide democratic

information that promotes respect for human

rights, gender equality, and secularism, while

f ighting against discrimination and, of course,

environmental challenges. In fact, the France

Médias Monde Group has met every single

one of the 200 objective criteria required to

obtain the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI)

label.

And because, as Victor Hugo said, “form is

substance that rises up”, France 24 wanted to

further assert its identity for its 18

th

anniversary

by designing a new schedule and changing

its look.

The primary guide to this change is people.

Humanity, again and again. Faced with the

dehumanisation created by our ‘all-digital’

societies and the ambivalence of artif icial

intelligence, we want to cultivate the precious

bond of trust that we have established with

our audience. So each day is made up of a

succession of major news and programme

slots, starting and f inishing at the same

time throughout the week, each of which is

embodied by the same person and the same

face. Every slot features its own signature

international news angle, produced by the

same dedicated team.

The transparency of the new packaging,

which allows almost all the images to be

seen, and its highly aesthetic dynamics, which

ref lect the responsiveness of a channel in

action 24 hours a day, are in a way our ‘French

Touch’. This commitment to transparency is

not just anecdotal: it also sends a message of

conf idence to our audience.

Because we f irmly believe in our mission to

serve the public interest on a global scale, and

that in a world of rising skepticism we must

foster trust instead, we are getting ready to

move forward, whatever the headwinds.

Whether on broadcast, OTT or on our

websites and social media, we will continue

more than ever to be the channel for liberty,

equality and news, all over the world.