{{Short description|French journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Edwy Plenel | image = SCAL2207071330.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Hervé Edwy Plenel | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|08|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Nantes, France | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Sciences Po | employer = ''Le Monde'' (1980–2005)<br />''Mediapart'' (2008–present) | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Journalist }} '''Hervé Edwy Plenel''' ({{IPA|fr|ɛʁve edwi plenɛl}}; born 31 August 1952) is a French political journalist.
==Biography==
===Early life=== Plenel spent his childhood in Martinique and his youth in Algiers, Algeria. He studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
===Career=== His career began in 1976 as a journalist for ''Rouge'', the official newspaper of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League (LCR – ''Ligue communiste révolutionnaire''). He briefly worked for ''Le Matin de Paris'' in 1980, before moving to the French newspaper ''Le Monde'', where he worked as the paper's education editor (1980–82), legal columnist (1982–90), a reporter (1991), head of the legal department (1992–94), chief editor (1994–95), assistant editorial director (1995–96), editor (1996–2000), and editor-in-chief (2000–04).<ref>''World Who's Who'', Routledge.</ref>
From 1985 to 1986, while working for ''Le Monde'', he was one of the targets of a wiretapping scandal perpetrated by a secret presidential anti-terrorism cell, which he had implicated in the "Irish of Vincennes" affair for framing three Irish nationals on terrorism charges.<ref>{{cite book |title=Democracy, law, and security: internal security services in contemporary Europe |last=Brodeur |first=Jean-Paul |author2=Dupeyron, Nicolas |year=2003 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |chapter=Democracy and secrecy: the French intelligence community|location=UK |isbn=0754630021 }}</ref>
In 2001, he was awarded the Prix Médicis essai for his essay ''Secrets de jeunesse'' (Secrets of Youth).<ref>[http://www.evene.fr/livres/livre/edwy-plenel-secrets-de-jeunesse-4816.php ''Secrets de jeunesse'' de Edwy Plenel], ''Evene''. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
He resigned from the editorial staff of ''Le Monde'' in November 2004,<ref name=lemonde>{{cite news|last=Henley|first=Jon|title=Le Monde editor quits as problems mount|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/nov/30/pressandpublishing.france?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|access-date=3 June 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=30 November 2004}}</ref> and left the newspaper on 31 October 2005. He is currently the publisher of ''Mediapart'', an Internet-based subscription journal which he founded in 2008.
In 2023, Plenel accused the actress and filmmaker Maïwenn of assaulting him in a Parisian restaurant, alleging she grabbed him by the hair before spitting in his face.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/maiwenn-jeanne-du-barry-johnny-depp-sued-assault-1235576910/ | title=French Director and Johnny Depp Collaborator Maiwenn Sued for Assaulting Journalist | date=16 May 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/maiwenn-fined-spitting-edwy-plenel-jeanne-du-barry-1235873705/|title=Jeanne du Barry' Director Maiwenn Fined $435 for Spitting on French Journalist in Restaurant|publisher=Variety}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
* ''L'Effet Le Pen'' (with Alain Rollat), Paris, La Découverte-Le Monde, 1984. * ''La République inachevée. L'État et l'école en France'', Paris, Payot, 1985; Stock, 1997; Biblio « Essais », 1999. * ''Mourir à Ouvéa. Le tournant calédonien'' (with Alain Rollat), Paris, La Découverte-Le Monde, 1988. * ''Voyage avec Colomb'', Paris, Le Monde-Éditions, 1991 (in Japanese : Shobun-sha, 1992). * ''La Part d'ombre'', Paris, Stock, 1992; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1994. * ''Un temps de chien'', Paris, Stock, 1994; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1996. * ''Les Mots volés'', Paris, Stock, 1997; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 1999. * ''L'Épreuve'', Paris, Stock, 1999. * ''Secrets de jeunesse'', Paris, Stock, 2001 (prix Médicis essai); Gallimard, « Folio », 2003. * ''La Découverte du monde'', Paris, Stock, 2002; Gallimard, « Folio Actuel », 2004 (in Korean : Maumsan, 2005). * ''Procès'', Paris, Stock, 2006 (prix du ''Journal du Centre''); Gallimard, « Folio », 2007. * ''Le Journaliste et le Président'', Paris, Stock, 2006. * ''Chroniques marranes'', Paris, Stock, 2007. * ''Combat pour une presse libre. Le manifeste de Mediapart'', Paris, Galaade, 2009 (in Spanish : Edhasa, 2012; in Arabic : Sefsafa, 2015). * ''Le Président de trop. Vertus de l'antisarkozysme, vices du présidentialisme'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2011. * ''Le 89 arabe'' (with Benjamin Stora), Paris, Stock, 2011. * ''Notre France'' (with Farouk Mardam Bey and Elias Sanbar), Paris, Sindbad/Actes Sud, 2011. * ''Le Droit de savoir'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2013; Seuil, « Points », 2014. * ''Dire non'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2014; Seuil, « Points », 2015. * ''Pour les musulmans'', Paris, La Découverte, 2014; La Découverte/Poche, 2016 (prix Fetkann de la mémoire), (in Arabic : Al Doha Magazine, 2015; in English : Verso, 2016). * ''La Troisième Equipe. Souvenirs de l'affaire Greenpeace'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2015; Seuil, « Points », 2016. * ''Dire nous. Contre les peurs et les haines, nos causes communes'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2016. * ''Voyage en terres d'espoir'', Paris, Editions de l'Atelier, 2016. * ''Le devoir d'hospitalité'', Paris, Bayard, 2017. * ''La valeur de l'information'', Paris, Don Quichotte, 2018; Seuil, « Points », 2019. * ''La victoire des vaincus. À propos des gilets jaunes'', Paris, La Découverte, 2019, 190 pages. * ''La sauvegarde du peuple. Presse, liberté et démocratie'', Paris, La Découverte, 2020. * ''Tous les films sont politiques. Avec Costa-Gavras'', Seuil, « Points », 2021. * ''Le Président de trop'', nouvelle édition augmentée de ''La question française'', La Découverte-Poche, 2021. * ''À gauche de l'impossible'', La Découverte, Cahiers libres, 2021. * ''L'Épreuve et la Contre-épreuve. De la Yougoslavie à l'Ukraine'', Paris, Stock, 2022. * ''L'Appel à la vigilance. Face à l'extrême droite'', Paris, La Découverte, 2023.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{in lang|fr}} [http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/edwy-plenel Le blog de Edwy Plenel] *{{IMDb name|id=0687149}} {{Authority control}}
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