Macron chooses a media lobbyist to lead his communication

As always, he took his time. Three months after the departure of the special communications adviser Clement Leonarduzzi, Emmanuel Macron found him a successor. Proposed and briefly occupied this summer at the request of the president by Quitterie Lemasson, who had planned to leave the Élysée, the post of special adviser on communication and strategy finally fell to Frédéric Michel, former lobbyist for News Corp, the media group of Rupert Murdoch. He will take office on September 12. Now a partner in the Lupa System investment fund, chaired by James Murdoch, son of Ruppert, Frédéric Michel has built his entire career abroad.

In Lebanon and Jordan during the second Iraq war, in Great Britain at News Corp, therefore, at Sky Italia then Sky Group, in the United States too, where he organized the Tribeca film festival in New York in June 2021, the country’s first cultural event after the Covid crisis. An international curriculum vitae, therefore, in line with…