RTL GUEST – Marion Calais: “‘Focus’ is great teamwork”
To concentrate, the “big sister” of Focus Sunday, celebrates its first birthday. Launched in November 2021, the RTL editorial staff podcast already has 250 numbers. This daily news meeting is presented from Monday to Thursday by Marion Calais, and on Friday by Anthony Martin and RTL’s culture department.
“It’s a great adventure To concentrate, says Marion Calais. It’s the entire editorial staff of RTL who mobilizes every day to make a podcast, to take a topical subject and explain it, dig into it, take the time. We take 15 to 20 minutes every day, it is extremely rare, with our experts, our specialists, our reporters, our correspondents. It’s great teamwork.”
In 2022, To concentrate took a great interest in war in ukraine, to the situation on the ground, to Vladimir Poutine, to the main actors in this conflict. “There is a real demand on these subjects, so we continue to deal with them as regularly as possible”, explains the journalist who presents RTL Soir with Julien Sellier.
The most watched episode of To concentrate since its launch, it is How do the Russian media report on the conflict? “This episode is interesting because we talk a lot about propaganda, hype in the media. But here we wanted to take the time to dig into this subject, to know what the Russians had access to in their media. for daily information.
Tuesday November 29, Marion Calais will return, for the “real first anniversary” of To concentrate (the first issue was released on November 29, 2021), on her experience as an assize juror. An exceptional episode.
>> To concentrate is a daily news podcast. From Monday to Thursday, Marion Calais and RTL’s editorial staff reported on a major news event with RTL reporters, correspondents and experts. And Friday is Focus on culture with Anthony Martin and the team of Indulge. And every Sunday, in Focus Sunday Mohamed Bouhafsi takes the time to zoom in on the hot topics of the week and gives voice to those who do.