Le Monde

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Le Monde
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First issue on 19 December 1944
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBerliner[1]
Owner(s)Groupe Le Monde
PublisherLouis Dreyfus
EditorJérôme Fenoglio
Staff writers165
Founded19 December 1944 (79 years, 291 days ago)
Language
  • French
  • English (digital translation)[2][3]
Headquarters67–69 Avenue Pierre Mendès-France
75707
Media of France
  • List of newspapers

    • Le Monde (French:

    newspapers of record, along with Libération and Le Figaro. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 found that Le Monde is the most trusted French newspaper.[5]

    The paper's journalistic side has a collegial form of organization, in which most journalists are tenured, unionized, and financial stakeholders in the business. While shareholders appoint the company's CEO, the editor is elected by Le Monde's journalists to uphold the newsroom's independence. Le Monde has often broken major scandals, for instance, by directly implicating President François Mitterrand in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. In contrast to other world newspapers such as The New York Times, Le Monde was traditionally focused on offering analysis and opinion, as opposed to being a newspaper of record. It de-emphasized maximum coverage of the news in favor of thoughtful interpretation of current events. In recent years the paper has established a greater distinction between fact and opinion.[6]

    Le Monde was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris from Nazism, and has published continuously since its first edition. In the 1990s and 2000s, La Vie-Le Monde Group expanded under editor Jean-Marie Colombani with a number of acquisitions; however, its profitability was not sufficient to cover the large debts it took on to fund this expansion, and it sought new investors in 2010 to keep the company from bankruptcy. In June 2010, French investors Matthieu Pigasse, Pierre Bergé, and Xavier Niel acquired a controlling stake in the newspaper.[7]

    History

    Le Monde was founded in 1944,

    Occupation.[10] Beuve-Méry reportedly demanded total editorial independence as the condition for his taking on the project. Le Monde began publishing a weekly digest edition in English on 23 April 1969.[11]

    In December 2006, on the 60th anniversary of its publishing début,[citation needed] Le Monde moved into new headquarters in Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 13th arrondissement of Paris.[12] The building—formerly the headquarters of Air France—was refashioned by Bouygues from the designs of Christian de Portzamparc. The building's façade has an enormous fresco adorned by doves (drawn by Plantu) flying towards Victor Hugo, symbolising freedom of the press. In 2008, Le Monde was found guilty of defamation for saying that Spanish football club FC Barcelona was connected to a doctor involved in steroid use. The Spanish court fined the newspaper nearly $450,000.[13]

    In 2014, Groupe Le Monde announced that Le Monde would move into a new headquarters, also in the 13th arrondissement, around 2017, with space for 1,200 people.

    libel suit against Le Monde, which was later dropped after the newspaper apologised.[17]

    In June 2017, Le Monde was certified as an International Fact-Checking Network member of the Poynter Institute.[18]。

    In 2023, Le Monde banned fossil fuel advertising to tackle climate change.[19]

    Le Monde is regarded as France's leading

    Paper Trail Media [de] and 69 media partners including Distributed Denial of Secrets and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and more than 270 journalists in 55 countries and territories[22][23] to produce the 'Cyprus Confidential' report on the financial network which supports the regime of Vladimir Putin, mostly with connections to Cyprus, and showed Cyprus to have strong links with high-up figures in the Kremlin, some of whom have been sanctioned.[24][25] Government officials including Cyprus president Nikos Christodoulides[26] and European lawmakers[27] began responding to the investigation's findings in less than 24 hours,[28] calling for reforms and launching probes.[29][30]

    Ownership

    In June 2010, investors Matthieu Pigasse, Pierre Bergé, and Xavier Niel acquired a controlling stake in the newspaper.[7] In October 2018, staff learned that Pigasse had sold 49% of his stake in the company to Czech businessman Daniel Křetínský. Le Monde's Independency Group, a minority shareholder that aims to protect the paper's editorial independence, had not been informed of the sale, and asked Pigasse and Křetínský to sign an "approval agreement" that would give the Independency Group the right to approve or reject any controlling shareholder. As of September 2019, they had not done so.[31][32]

    Publication schedule

    Le Monde is published around midday, and the cover date on the masthead is the following day's. For instance, the issue released at midday on 15 March shows 16 March on the masthead. It is available on newsstands in France on the day of release and received by mail subscribers on the masthead date. The Saturday issue is a double one, for Saturday and Sunday, thus the latest edition can be found on newsstands from Monday to Friday included, while subscribers will receive it from Tuesday to Saturday.

    LeMonde.fr

    Le Monde was among the first French newspapers on the web, with its first web edition on 19 December 1995.[33] It is among the 50 most visited websites in France.[34] Starting in the 2000s Le Monde allowed its subscribers to publish a blog on its website. These blogs were called the "les blogs abonnées du Monde.fr". On 10 April 2019, Le Monde announced that it would be closing its blog platform on 5 June 2019.[35][36] Although the reasons for the closing of the blogs were unclear, it could be linked to the dominance of social networks like Facebook.[37] Le Monde launched an English language edition of its news website on 7 April 2022, featuring its articles translated from French.[2][3]

    Politics

    In 1981, Le Monde backed the election of socialist François Mitterrand, partly on the grounds that the alternation of the political party in government would be beneficial to the democratic character of the state.[38] The paper endorsed centre-right candidate Édouard Balladur in the 1995 French presidential election, and Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party candidate, in the 2007 French presidential election.

    Reception

    According to the

    controversial, but it attracted much attention and media coverage in France and worldwide at the time of its publication. Following a lawsuit, the authors and the publisher agreed in 2004 not to proceed with any reprinting.[citation needed
    ]

    Directors

    Circulation history since 1999

    Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
    Circulation 325,295 390,840 392,772 405,983 407,069 389,249 371,803 360,610 350,039 358,655 340,131 323,039 319,022
    Year 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
    Circulation 318,236 303,432 298,529 292,054 289,555 301,528 302,624 325,565 393,109 445,894 472,767 488,802

    Prix littéraire du Monde

    The Prix littéraire du Monde has been awarded annually by Le Monde since 2013. It is awarded at the beginning of September to a novel published at the start of the French literary season—or "rentrée littéraire". The winner of the prize is chosen by a jury made up of journalists—literary journalists from Le Monde des livres, cultural or other editorial staff—chaired by the director of the newspaper.[40]

    Winners

    Year Author Title Publisher Ref(s)
    2013 Yasmina Reza Heureux les heureux
    Éditions Stock
    		 [41]
    2014 Emmanuel Carrère Le Royaume Éditions P.O.L [42]
    2015 Agnès Desarthe Ce cœur changeant Éditions de l'Olivier [43]
    2016 Ivan Jablonka Laëtitia ou la Fin des hommes Éditions du Seuil [44]
    2017 Alice Zeniter L'Art de perdre
    Éditions Flammarion
    		 [45]
    2018 Jérôme Ferrari À son image Actes Sud [46]
    2019 Cécile Coulon Une bête au paradis Éditions de l'Iconoclaste [47]
    2020 Francesca Serra Elle a menti pour les ailes Éditions Anne Carrière [48]
    2021 Jean-Claude Grumberg Jacqueline Jacqueline Éditions du Seuil [49]
    2022 Mathieu Belezi Attaquer la terre et le soleil Le Tripode [50]
    2023 Neige Sinno Triste Tigre Éditions P.O.L [51]

    See also

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    Further reading

    • Merrill, John C.; Harold A. Fisher (1980). The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers. pp. 202–10.
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