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Search on for new editor as crisis at Libération continues

The hunt is on for a new editor of Left-Wing French daily Libération after Nicolas Demorand resigned last week. Following a strike, Demorand’s journalists ran a robust campaign against his radical plans to turn the newspaper into a new media hub, housing a start-up incubator alongside a TV station and a cafe at the newspaper’s Paris headquarters.

by WAN-IFRA Staff executivenews@wan-ifra.org | February 18, 2014

They co-opted the front page of the newspaper in protest and launched an effective social media campaign against the changes, taking to Twitter and Tumblr to voice their objections. William Pimlott used the social media aggregation platform Storify to collate this overview of the social media coverage of the crisis.

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