Michèle Cotta
| Michèle Cotta | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 June 1937 Nice, France |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Michèle Cotta is a French political journalist.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Her father was the Mayor of Nice.[1] She started her career as a journalist for Combat.[2] She move on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud.[1][2] Between 1981 and 1986, then-President François Mitterrand appointed her as Head of Radio France, followed by the Haute Autorité, now known as the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel.[1][2][3] She also served as news director for TF1 and program director for France 2.[1][2][3] She now teaches at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.[3] She is also an editor for the Nouvel économiste and Direct Soir.[4]
In 1983, she became the first woman to join Le Siècle.[5]
Bibliography
- La Collaboration, 1940-1944 (Paris: Armand Colin, 1964)
- Les élections présidentielles de 1965 (co-written with Jean-François Revel, Imprimerie Busson, 1966)
- Les miroirs de Jupiter (Paris: Fayard, 1986)
- La Sixième République (Paris: Flammarion, 1992)
- Les secrets d'une victoire (Paris: Flammarion, 1999)
- Carnets secrets de la présidentielle : mars 2001 - mai 2002 (Paris: Plon, 2002)
- Politic Circus (Paris: L’Archipel, 2004)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 1, 1965-1977 (Paris: Fayard, 2007)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 2, 1977-1986 (Paris: Fayard, 2008)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 3, 1986-1997 (Paris: Fayard, 2009)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 'Michèle Cotta, une femme de pouvoir', in Le Figaro, 01/04/2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 France 5 webpage
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme webpage
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 France Culture webpage
- ↑ Frédéric Saliba, 'Le pouvoir à la table du Siècle', in Stratégies, issue 1365, April 14, 2005, p. 49