Jérôme Chapuis leaves the franceinfo morning show after three seasons at the helm

Three seasons and then gone. The presenter of the franceinfo morning show Jérôme Chapuis will leave his post at the end of the season, Le Parisien learned this Wednesday, May 6, while Agnès Vahramian, director of the station, spoke to the radio teams in the morning alongside the future ex-morning worker.

“I have decided to leave the morning show, I am moving towards other horizons,” he declared to the editorial staff. In a post published on LinkedIn, the journalist confirmed his departure from the time slot, but also from the Radio France group: “Three exciting, exciting years, marked by intense news. We cannot measure the energy that the 180 franceinfo journalists deploy every day to inform with rigor, distance, lucidity, pedagogy, by varying angles and registers. It’s a great public service. I am very proud to have shared the days and nights of this exceptional collective,” he wrote.

During her speech, the former France Télévisions correspondent in the United States did not reveal the name of the person who will succeed Jérôme Chapuis. According to our information, several avenues are being studied, both within the Round House and outside. The name of Maxime Switek, currently at the helm of BFMTV’s 9 p.m.-midnight show, is circulating in particular, but also that of Hadrien Bect, who embodies the station’s morning show on weekends. Discussions are underway, but have not yet been concluded, said a regular in the corridors of Radio France.

Already excluded from the 8:30 a.m. interview from September 2025

The 49-year-old had been at the helm of the weekday morning since September 2023, where he arrived from La Croix, a daily newspaper of which he was editorial director. This political journalist started on RMC before joining Europe 1, then RTL after the 2012 presidential election. There he presented “the Grand Jury”, the Sunday political meeting, and provided replacements at the helm of the morning show, before turning in 2019 to the written press.

Between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. he took over from Marc Fauvelle, who was called to take on new roles as editorial director of France Inter before leaving for BFMTV. In terms of audiences, it brought together 514,000 listeners between January and March 2026 (+ 18,000 over one year), much less than the 672,000 faithful during the September-October 2023 wave upon its arrival. A mixed result while its predecessor even exceeded 700,000 regulars between January and March 2023.

At the helm of the 8:30 am political interview on franceinfo for two years with Salhia Brakhlia, Jérôme Chapuis was dismissed at the start of the 2025 school year, his management preferring the duo Agathe Lambret and Paul Larrouturou to conduct the flagship interview of the morning.