Sud Ouest (newspaper)

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Sud Ouest
TypeDaily
Media of France
  • List of newspapers

    • Sud Ouest (French pronunciation:

    Pyrénées Atlantiques
    départements. It is owned by the Groupe Sud Ouest, which was directed by Jacques Lemoine from 1944 to 1968, and by his son Jean-François Lemoine from 1968 to 2001. The president of the group since February 2008 has been Pierre Jeantet. 80% of the group belongs to the Lemoine family, 10% to the journalists, and the remaining 10% to the staff.

    The Sud Ouest group

    Besides Sud Ouest, the group has progressively broadened and now also owns La Charente Libre, La Dordogne Libre, La République des Pyrénées and L’Eclair des Pyrénées-Pays de l’Adour. In 2007, the Groupe Sud Ouest bought Le Midi Libre, L’Indépendant, Centre Presse (Aveyron) and Montpellier Plus from the group Le Monde, which was forced to sell these titles because of its crushing debt. These local papers of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, allow Groupe Sud Ouest to extend outside the Aquitaine and Poitou-Charentes regions. Besides the dailies, the Groupe Sud Ouest also owns the weekly magazines Le Résistant (Libourne), Haute Saintonge (Jonzac), Haute Gironde (Blaye), l’Hebdo de Charente Maritime (Surgères), La Semaine du Pays Basque, La Dépêche du Bassin and Le Journal du Médoc. The weeklies La Semaine du Roussillon, le Journal de Millau, l’Aveyronnais, le Catalan Judiciaire, Terre de Vins and Terres Catalanes, all published in Languedoc-Roussillon, were also sold by Le Monde to Groupe Sud Ouest in 2007. Groupe Sud Ouest publishes various surf magazines, including Surf Session, Bodyboard and Surfer's Journal. A publishing house, éditions Sud Ouest, specializes in local history, tourism and food and owns the local TV station, TV7 Bordeaux. The revenue of the group was 325 million euros in 2006,[2] and after the absorption of the Languedoc-Roussillon papers, it expected a 555 million Euro revenue.[3]

    The newspaper

    The newspaper Sud Ouest distinguishes itself by a coverage more thorough than usual for a French local daily of the national and international news. Politically, the paper is rather neutral although it has once compared

    Front National
    in Bordeaux in the 1990s. It features an editorial cartoonist, Michel Iturria, and a regular opinion column signed by Franck de Bondt.

    Circulation

    The paper circulation dropped from around 300,000 copies in 2007[4] to 210,000 copies in 2021.[1]

    Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2021
    Sud Ouest 299,192 294,301 285,334 269,395 261,587 252,584 243,988 210,456
    Sud Ouest Dimanche 273,846 270 293 257,470 245,558 244,779 232,597 224,855

    Sources

    1. ^ a b "L'observatoire de la presse et des médias de L'APCM 2022". acpm.fr. 2022.
    2. Le Nouvel Observateur
      , December 26, 2007
    3. ^ "Pierre Jeantet retrouve la direction du Groupe Sud Ouest", Libération, February 7, 2008
    4. ^ Groupe Sud Ouest Archived 2008-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Ecole Supérieure de journalisme de Lille

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