Alain Frachon (born 1950) is a French journalist for ''
Le Monde
(; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...
'', France's centre-left newspaper of record, and the author of several books.
Early life
Alain Frachon was born in 1950.
He graduated from the
Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) in 1974.
Career
Frachon began his career at the
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (; AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency.
With 2,400 employees of 100 nationalities, AFP has an editorial presence in 260 c ...
, where he worked from 1975 to 1985.
He was a foreign correspondent for ''Le Monde'' in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.
He succeeded
Érik Izraelewicz
Érik Izraelewicz (6 February 1954 – 27 November 2012) was a French journalist and author, specialised in economics and finance. From February 2011 he was director and editorial executive of the daily ''Le Monde'', after having held the same po ...
as the interim editor-in-chief from November 2012 to March 2013.
Frachon is the author of several books.
Selected works
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References
Living people
1950 births
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