French journalist Thomas Legrand, a public broadcaster accused of being too close to the Socialist Party, is facing new controversy after revelations that his wife’s media company receives generous funding from Socialist-led institutions. Its partners and sponsors are mainly government institutions, local governments and inter-municipal co-operations and NGO’s in and around Paris, most of them with strong ties to the Socialist Party, raising questions about the use of taxpayer money. Subsidies of thousands of euros went to, for example, “radio reporting and ecological transition workshops with vulnerable people who are learning French”, according to French media. They apparently featured Pierre Jouvet MEP and Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Luc Broussy, President of the party’s National Council, and journalists Thomas Legrand (France Inter and Libération) and Patrick Cohen (France Inter and France 5). Arcom, the French media regulator, said on September 18 it had launched an investigation into the impartiality of public broadcasting.