Benjamin Duhamel recruited for the 7:50 am interview – Liberation

The first morning radio station in France, that of France Inter, found its new interviewer of 7:50 am. This very coveted position is Benjamin Duhamel who will inherit it, as the rumor of the last days wanted. Revealed by Le Figarothe transfer was formalized this morning on Monday, June 2 in the morning by public radio. The 30 -year -old political journalist thus takes over the niche occupied for two seasons by Sonia Devillers. The latter had indicated that she does not want to continue this daily interview which should become more in politics for the 2027 presidential election: « I loved this exercise, but I am not ready to bite to have the little sentence of Eric Ciotti responding to Mathilde Panot », had she said At World. She will now be responsible for an interview at 9:05 a.m. on social issues.

Benjamin Duhamel will therefore resume, from Monday to Thursday, orders for this interview « With those who make the event and the news of the day », Dixit the press release from France Inter, which seems, in hollow, to formalize the maintenance of Nicolas Demorand and Léa Salamé at the head of the morning at the start of the school year, mentioning the names of the two co-animators. For Adèle Van Reeth, the director of the stationBenjamin Duhamel is « An incisive, precise interviewer, which has a sense of news and a very fine political culture », She praises in the press release.

The journalist does not leave BFM TV however: he will continue to animate on the news channel the daily Everyone wants to knowMonday to Thursday at 6.50 p.m. But will stop his Sunday It’s not every day on Sunday. After starting his career in RTL, Benjamin Duhamel had gone to report to LCI before joining BFM TV in 2019, first to follow the extreme right, then as an editorialist and interviewer.

Heir to a long media line historically linked to public audiovisual, he is the son of Patrice Duhamel, former director general of France Télévisions, and Nathalie Saint-Cricq, political editorial and current director of the national editorial office of France Télévisions, and the nephew of Alain Duhamel, political editorialist who started on ORTF. On these accusations of taking advantage of a certain media nepotism, Benjamin Duhamel explained in September to Release that he « Would be indecent to complain » :: “The sons of a cleaning lady or farmers obviously do not leave with the same chances in life. It just annoys me when it takes me out. I still hope that if I got there, it’s not just because of my name. ”