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Samuel Étienne in his last morning on franceinfo on June 21, 2023. Screenshot / franceinfo
VIDEO – End clap for the journalist who presented this program for six years. He said goodbye to his teams and viewers this Wednesday, June 21.
It had been since September 2017 that the alarm clock rang “ a bit early for the presenter. 6 years ago, Samuel Etienne began his morning adventure on franceinfo. He closed it this Wednesday, June 21, all in sobriety, covered by loud applause. ” It was an incredible adventure for a reason: these people, professionally and humanly, are great people. And it was a joy to get up every day at two in the morning to find them “, ures the journalist with emotion, surrounded in particular by Zohra Ben Miloud, co-presenter of the show.
Eager to resume a less intense rhythm at the start of the next school year, Samuel Étienne however keeps the presentation of the game “Questions for a champion” on France 3, as well as “Le 6h00 info” on France 2 from Monday to Thursday. “ It’s only a good bye “, declares the one who started streaming on the Twitch platform in December 2020, in order to animate a daily press review entitled “The morning is yours”, a pun “ slammed to the ground », in his own words on the set of “C à vous” on April 10.
Bearer of a new way of doing news, the fifty-year-old streamer is trying to target French youth who are becoming increasingly depoliticized. Many topics are discussed during his show, such as the Presidential, or more recently, pension reform. Political figures have already made the trip to his home, where his streams are shot, such as Francois Hollande Or John Castex. The former tenant of Matignon will however be the last, the journalist considering that the appointment had been missed with him. And because he does not wish to welcomefar-right representativesin his studio.
” When I received Jean Castex on Twitch, he made me a magnificent exercise in language of wood, as I have rarely seenhad entrusted Samuel Étienne to Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine. Whereas the younger generation distrusts politics precisely because they are tired of the language of wood! “, he continued in the emission of France 5. The name of his replacement at the head of the morning of franceinfo is not yet known.