Michèle Cotta Explained
Michèle Cotta (born 15 June 1937) is a French political journalist.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Biography
Her father, Jacques Cotta (1908–1971), was the mayor of Nice.[1]
She started her career as a journalist for Combat.[2] She moved on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud.[1] [2] Between 1981 and 1986, then-President François Mitterrand appointed her as Head of Radio France, followed by the Haute Autorité, now known as the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel.[1] [2] [3] She also served as news director for TF1 and program director for France 2.[1] [2] [3] She now teaches at Sciences Po.[3] She is also an editor for the Nouvel économiste and Direct Soir.[4]
In 1983, she became the first woman to join the think tank Le Siècle.[5]
Bibliography
- La Collaboration, 1940-1944 (Paris: Armand Colin, 1964)
- Les élections présidentielles de 1965 (co-written with Jean-François Revel, Imprimerie Busson, 1966)
- Les miroirs de Jupiter (Paris: Fayard, 1986)
- La Sixième République (Paris: Flammarion, 1992)
- Les secrets d'une victoire (Paris: Flammarion, 1999)
- Carnets secrets de la Présidentielle : mars 2001 - mai 2002 (Paris: Plon, 2002)
- Politic Circus (Paris: L’Archipel, 2004)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 1, 1965-1977 (Paris: Fayard, 2007)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 2, 1977-1986 (Paris: Fayard, 2008)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 3, 1986-1997 (Paris: Fayard, 2009)
- Cahiers secrets de la Ve République, tome 4, 1997-2007 (Paris: Fayard, 2010)
- Le Rose et le Gris : prélude au quinquennat de François Hollande (Paris: Fayard, 2012)
- Entretiens avec Michèle Cotta, Pierre Mauroy, une vie socialiste (Paris: Fondation Jean-Jaurès, 2013)
- Le Monde selon Mitterrand. Combats, pensées, arrière-pensées, piques, polémiques (Paris: Tallandier, 2015)
- Comment en est-on arrivé là ? (Paris: Robert Laffont, 2016)
- Fake News (co-written with Robert Namias, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2019)
- Le Paris de Mitterrand (Paris: Alexandrines, 2019)
- Ma Cinquième, tome 1 (Paris: Bouquins, 2023)
- Les Derniers grands, tome 2 (Paris: Plon, 2024)
Notes and References
- 'Michèle Cotta, une femme de pouvoir', in Le Figaro, 01/04/2011 http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/article/people/60625/michele-cotta-une-femme-de-pouvoir.html
- http://documentaires.france5.fr/documentaires/empreintes/michele-cotta-sur-le-fil-du-pouvoir France 5 webpage
- http://www.esj-paris.com/michele-cotta-laureate-du-courgoudon-dhonneur/ Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme webpage
- https://archive.today/20130123185042/http://www.franceculture.com/personne-michele-cotta.html France Culture webpage
- Frédéric Saliba, 'Le pouvoir à la table du Siècle', in Stratégies, issue 1365, April 14, 2005, p. 49 http://www.strategies.fr/emploi-formation/management/r36900W/14-le-pouvoir-a-la-table-du-siecle.html
