In 2001, the new Chief Information Officer Olivier Mazerolle recruited David Pujadas, from LCI, to present the Journal de 20 heures.

On Monday, September 22, 2014, the program achieved its best audience since the end of March (excluding summer) with five million viewers and a 20.2% market share.

David Pujadas said goodbye at the end of the newspaper, cheered by the editorial staff and his family, including Léa Salamé who was present.

[8] In 2014, Bruno Masure criticized the presenter David Pujadas for the place he gave to "criminal miscellaneous facts" and for having transformed the TV news "into a neo-liberal propaganda outlet, with subtle, repetitive and totally open promotion".

[9] In December 2016, 20 Heures stated that a bar in the municipality of Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) was banned for women, generating many debates on the rise of communitarianism.