Michèle Cotta

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (September 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Michèle Cotta]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Michèle Cotta}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Michèle Cotta
Born	(1937-06-15) 15 June 1937 (age 89) Nice, France
Education	Sciences Po
Occupation	Political journalist

Michèle Cotta (born 15 June 1937) is a French political journalist.

Biography

Her father, Jacques Cotta (1908–1971), was the mayor of Nice.

She started her career as a journalist for Combat. She moved on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud. 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. She also served as news director for TF1 and program director for France 2. She now teaches at Sciences Po. She is also an editor for the Nouvel économiste and Direct Soir.

In 1983, she became the first woman to join the think tank Le Siècle.

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)

References

This article about politics in France is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e