The TF1 group has announced the appointment of Eric Monier as the new LCI editor-in-chief. In 1999, he set up the France 2 Africa bureau, before being promoted to deputy head of the channel's Reportage unit. In 2007, he moved to the production company Elephant et CIE as deputy editor-in-chief of the Sept à Huit current affairs magazine. In 2010, he was appointed editor-in-chief at France 2, a position he held until 2015.