Rémy Dessarts joins Lagardère Entertainment

As part of the ongoing expansion of its scope of activities, Lagardère Entertainment is entrusting Rémy Dessarts with the task of creating a new entity specializing in documentaries and newsmagazines. These productions will be aimed at television broadcasters and website publishers, as well as at serving businesses’ public relations needs.

A journalist by training, Rémy Dessarts has performed a number of varied, complementary roles in economic and mainstream journalism and as a television managing editor and producer. In particular, he launched the monthly magazine Capital as editor-in-chief, and also directed the editorial teams of the weekly magazine VSD and the newspapers Equipe and France Soir.

For many years, Mr Dessarts headed up such media companies as Prisma Presse, Hachette Filipacchi-Lagardère and Axel Springer. He began his career in television 10 years ago as director of news and current affairs programming for French channel M6. He then joined production companies Elephant et Cie and Troisième Œil Productions as news programming director.

Takis Candilis, chairman of Lagardère Entertainment, commented as follows: “We are extremely pleased that Rémy is joining the Group. He brings with him extensive experience in news-related content and will significantly boost our growth potential in this area.”