Michèle Cotta

Her father was the mayor of Nice.[1] She started her career as a journalist for Combat.[2] She moved on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud.[1][2] 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.[1][2][3] She also served as news director for TF1 and program director for France 2.[1][2][3] She now teaches at Sciences Po.[3] She is also an editor for the Nouvel économiste and Direct Soir.[4]

In 1983, she became the first woman to join the think tank Le Siècle.[5]

• 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)