Marie-Christine Saragosse, President and CEO of France Médias Monde, has appointed Jean-Marc Four as Director of RFI. He will take up his post on May 15.
Jean-Marc Four will succeed Cécile Mégie, who, through her tremendous dedication to the role for more than ten years, has enabled the significant development of the international radio station, both in terms of editorial content and audience numbers. Cécile Mégie will take on new responsibilities, which will be announced shortly, within the management team at France Médias Monde.
Jean-Marc Four is currently chief editorial writer for international politics at Radio France, a position he will hold until May 2023. He was director of international news at Radio France (2018-2022), director of news at France Inter (2014-2018), and director of news at France Culture (2010-2014). He also produced and presented the international news program "Et pourtant elle tourne" on France Inter (2006/2010), was Radio France's permanent correspondent in London (2002/2006), and has lived in Australia and South America. He also produced the program "Le secret des sources" on the workings of the media on France Culture. He was head of the reporting department and senior reporter at France Inter, and presenter of the morning and midday news on France Inter. Aged 56, he has a law degree, is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (1986), holds a DESS (postgraduate diploma) in press correspondence in English-speaking countries from the University of Paris III (1989), and is a graduate of the Centre de formation des journalistes (Paris, 1989). He has published "Tony Blair l'iconoclaste" and "De la mécanique médiatique," and has been president of the French diplomatic press association since 2022.