In 13 Rue Henri Barbusse runners, in Gennevilliers, mood is gloomy. In question, the announcement, for the Middle Prism Management, Press Group behind Télé-Loisirs, current woman, geo or here and TV 2 weeks, of a new output plan.
This is the third plan of this type in the four -year space, and must be related to 54 positions, according to BFM Business information.
The management of France Group First Press, Property of multimillionaire Vincent Bollorémentioned, with employees, “economic disorders” and a significant drop in income related to advertising on the websites that operate.
The brands will disappear, including National Geographic France
Already, in 2024, a collective contractual termination had been launched to convince employees to go in good condition. But the 30 volunteer runners were not enough. This new employment protection plan will be extended to all writing, to BFM businesses and, in total, it should be offered to more than 130 employees.
Among them, National Geographic. The magazine, which is just a license of a brand detained partly by the Walt Disney company, which also operates a television channel of the same name, will be arrested. The brand is also present on the web. According to our information, the editorial staff is directly concerned about the plan developed for several months by Claire Léost, the head of Media Prism and her teams. Geo, in financial difficulty, is also in the viewfinder.
The one headed by the group had to put a new collective contractual breakdown planned for January, before the negative of the unions.
Forced outputs this fall
The difference with the company’s previous plans is that of the 130 directed employees, 54 of them will have to have gone in autumn.
The negotiations were launched on Wednesday, May 21 and must be extended for several weeks. Objective employees will be informed “in the fall,” adds a source.
Media prism can be the leader in its sector, the company is under the entire force of the press crisis, the cost of paper and, in general, the fall in profitability on the Internet. “We must do more with less,” he despairs an employee present in the group for six years.
Web teams have been instructed to carry out new projects, in particular to interest a younger audience, without this allowing the trend to be reversed. Prisma also launched several new magazines between 2023 and 2024, including the French version of Harper’s Bazaar.
With 746 employees, including a third of journalists, Prisma Media will have to count on the outputs.
Source: BFM TV
