The editorial director of Arte France, ex-number 2 of France Télévisions, has been elected chairman of the executive board of the chain, announced on Arte on Monday.
This is a fine connoisseur of the public audiovisual sector. Bruno Patino, editorial director of Arte France, has been elected chairman of the executive board of the chain, announced on Arte on Monday. Ex-director of Télérama and France Culture, ex-number 2 of France Télévisions, Bruno Patino, 55, was responsible for the content of Arte since 2015. He succeeds Véronique Cayla, who will leave his post on July 5, because of the age limit imposed on the officers of the company (70 years).
Born in Courbevoie, on march 8, 1965, Bruno Patino is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, ESSEC business school and the Johns Hopkins University, holds a doctorate in political sciences. He started as a journalist in the World, of which he was the correspondent in Santiago (1990-1993). It is then passed by the daily InfoMatin, and Canal+, Hachette Livre, where he was the general secretary of the branch literature, before returning to the World in 1999, where he led The Interactive World from 2000 to 2008, and at the same time Télérama from 2003 to 2008.
Appointed in 2008 director of France Culture, he then came in 2010, with France Télévisions as the director of strategy and digital, but also the director of France 5. He was the director general of programmes of the antennas and of the developments of digital of France Télévisions from February 2013.
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Bruno Patino, who is elected for a term of five years, has been selected by a council consisting of twelve members, including three employee representatives, one representative of the ministry of Economy and Finance, three other leaders of the public audiovisual sector, Delphine Ernotte (France Télévisions), Sibyle Veil (Radio France), Laurent Vallet (national audiovisual Institute) and the chairman of the supervisory board of Gaumont, Nicolas Seydoux. The council is chaired by Bernard-Henri Lévy.
The nominations were not public and the only candidate to be declared during the short campaign has been the executive director of Arte, Régine Hatchondo.
