Michèle Cotta (born 15 June 1937) is a French political journalist.

[1][2][3][4] Her father, Jacques Cotta (1908–1971), was the mayor of Nice.

[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.

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