Rue89
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Type of site | News website |
|---|---|
| Available in | French |
| Created by | Pierre Haski, Pascal Riché, Arnaud Aubron, Michel Lévy-Provençal, and Laurent Mauriac |
| URL | rue89 |
| Commercial | yes |
| Launched | 6 May 2007 |
Rue89 is a French
History
Rue89 was co-founded by Pierre Haski, Pascal Riché, Arnaud Aubron, Michel Lévy-Provençal, and Laurent Mauriac. Libération, which had been bought back by
On 5 September 2007, Pascal Riché revealed that
In February 2008, Michel Lévy-Provençal, one of the founders, who left when the website was launched, sold his shares and criticized Rue89 for being a "marketing success" but a journalistic failure.[3]
In October 2008, Rue89 launched Eco89, a news site dedicated to economics.[4]
In June 2010, Rue89 launched a monthly paper.
In December 2011, Rue89 was bought by
In April 2012, Rue89 ceased its monthly print issue.
In March 2014, Rue89 and the
As of March 2015, after refocusing on the so-called "digital revolution" in late 2014, Rue89 global audience is far behind other French online newspapers[9] such as the Huffington Post France.[10]
In January 2017, only four journalists were still working for Rue89 and the website was virtually dead.[citation needed]
Name
According to its editor, Pascal Riché, the name Rue89 has been chosen as a reference to freedom, through French Revolution (1789) and the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) as much as the symbolism of the street (French: rue) as a place of meeting and discussion.[11]
Founders
- Pierre Haski, president of the society Rue89 and editor-in-chief (directeur de la publication)
- Pascal Riché, news editor (rédacteur en chef)
- Arnaud Aubron, webmaster/editor
- Michel Lévy-Provençal
- Laurent Mauriac, CFO
Team
- Mathieu Deslandes, deputy news editor
- Zineb Dryef, journalist
See also
- Bakchich, another news website founded in 2006
References
- ^ Pascal Riché, Une fausse interview d'Obama dans Politique internationale, Rue89, 5 September 2007 (in French)
- ^ Howard Kurtz, Consultant Probed in Bogus Interview, The Washington Post, 13 September 2007 (in English)
- ^ Michel Lévy-Provençal. "Pourquoi je veux (à nouveau) quitter Rue89". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ Rue89 lance Eco89, un site économique Le Figaro. 1 October 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ^ Le Nouvel Observateur buys Rue89 for 75 million Telecom Paper
- ^ Rue 89 going back to its online origins Editors Weblog
- ^ "2012 Awards". Online News Association. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ^ Rue89
- ^ http://www.mpublicite.fr/sites/default/files/upload/marques/fichiers/150310_rue89.pdf [dead link]
- ^ "Touch by Mediametrie".
- ^ People - Time Wires
External links
- (in French) Official website.
- (in English) Street 89
- (in Spanish) Calle 89
- (in Japanese) Rue89Japon
- (in English) Stephen Brook, WAN 2008: French news site triumphs against print media, 4 June 2008, The Guardian blogs