Below is a list of newspapers in France.
National
Daily
Newspaper | Logo | Founded | Circulation | Chief Editor | Ideology | Political Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
La Croix | 15 June 1883 | 87 682 (2019) | Jérôme Chapuis, Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner | Christian Democracy | Centre-Right | |
Les Échos | 1908 | 132 210 (2019) | Neo-Liberalism, Liberalism | Centre-Right | ||
Le Figaro | 15 January 1826 | 350 397 (2021) | Robert Mergui | Liberal Conservatism, Gaullism, Conservatism | Centre-Right | |
L'Humanité | 18 April 1904 | 36 347 (2019) | Fabien Gay | Socialism, Communism | Left-Wing | |
Libération | 18 April 1973 | 91 833 (2021) | Don Alfon | Socialism, Social Democracy | Left-Wing | |
Le Monde | 1944 | 323 565 (2019) | Jérôme Fenoglio | Social Liberalism, Social Democracy | Centre-Left |
- Online newspapers
- Mediapart (internet only, investigative journalism)
- La Tribune (switched to internet only since 2012, economics)
- Slate
- Atlantico
- Contrepoints
- Free newspapers
Weekly
- Challenges (economy)
- Charlie Hebdo (satirical news magazine, left-wing)
- Courrier International (translated articles from press worldwide, centre-left)
- Le Canard enchaîné (satirical newspaper, investigative journalism, generally left-wing)
- L'Express (centre-right)
- France Dimanche (celebrity news magazine)
- Le Journal du dimanche (news, culture, leisure)
- Le Monde Libertaire (anarcho-communist weekly)
- L'Obs (news magazine, centre-left)
- Le Point (news magazine, right-wing)
- Marianne (news magazine, left-wing)
- Paris-Match (headline news and celebrity lifestyle features)
- Télérama (culture)
- VSD (news, celebrity and leisure magazine)
Monthly
- Le Monde Diplomatique (left-wing to far-left)
Every four years
- La Bougie du Sapeur (satirical, every February 29)
Presse quotidienne nationale française
Presse quotidienne nationale française is a group of eighteen paid-for French daily newspapers, of which six have circulations in excess of 100,000,[1] and four free newspapers, which have a much larger circulation: not only is the paid-for press more expensive, but there are fewer outlets from which to buy newspapers. In recent years many newsstands and newsagents in Paris that sold newspapers have closed, and customers would need to travel far to get some titles.
Paid-for
Name | Founded | Founder | Replaced/merged | Group | Major shareholders | Circulation (2013)[1] | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Le Parisien / Aujourd'hui en France | 22 August 1944 | Émilien Amaury | Le Parisien Libéré | Groupe Amaury | 411,003 | Quality general and popular paper. Centre-left politics. Circulation figures for Le Parisien and 'Aujourd'hui en France are combined here. | |
Le Figaro | Weekly: 15 January 1826 Daily: 1866 |
Étienne Arago and Maurice Alhoy | L'Aurore | Socpresse | Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault (Serge Dassault) | 317,225 | General newspaper, right-wing politics. |
Le Monde | 18 December 1944 | Hubert Beuve-Méry | Le Temps | Groupe Le Monde | Pierre Bergé, Matthieu Pigasse, Xavier Niel | 275,310 | Known as the "journal of reference". Politically independent, it often leans to centre-left views. Le Monde is the only evening newspaper in this list. |
L'Équipe (general edition) | 28 February 1946 | Jacques Goddet | L'Auto | Groupe Amaury | 243,580 | Sports newspaper | |
Les Échos | Monthly: 1908 Daily: 1928 |
Émile Servan-Schreiber | Les Échos de l’Exportation | DI Group | LVMH (Bernard Arnault) | 123,636 | Primarily financial. Takes a liberal-conservative editorial stance, leaning to the right. |
Libération | 22 May 1973 | Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July | SARL Libération | Patrick Drahi and Bruno Ledoux | 101,616 | Left-wing newspaper, aligned with the Parti socialiste. | |
La Croix | 1883 | Assumptionist | Bayard Presse | 94,673 | Roman-Catholic newspaper and centre-right conservative. | ||
Le Petit Quotidien | 1998 | Play Bac Presse | Play Bac Presse | 53,807 | For 6- to 10-year-olds. | ||
Mon quotidien | 1995 | Play Bac Presse | Play Bac Presse | 47,358 | For 10- to 14-year-olds. | ||
Paris Turf | 1946 | Turf Éditions | 41,393 | Horse racing. | |||
L'Humanité | 18 April 1904 | Jean Jaurès | Société nouvelle du journal l'Humanité | 40,562 | Organ of the French Communist Party from 1920 to 1994; it remains close but has flirted with other left-wing bodies. | ||
Paris Courses | 1994 | Jean Claude Seroul | Turf Éditions | 20,653 | Horse racing. | ||
International New York Times | 1887 | James Gordon Bennett, Jr. | New York Herald Tribune | New York Times Company | 17,167 | English language newspaper. | |
Tiercé Magazine | 1978 | Jean Claude Seroul | Turf Éditions | 13,952 | Horse racing. | ||
Week End | 1962 | Leo Zitrone | Turf Éditions | 13,859 | |||
La Gazette des Courses | 13,847 | Horse racing. | |||||
Bilto | 1985 | Les Editions de la Bulle | Turf Éditions | 10,405 | |||
Free
Free newspapers are distributed from newsstands and traditional newsagent's shops at the entrances of metro stations and other public places.
Morning
- 20 minutes: Schibsted, a Norwegian group, launched this in France at the start of 2002. It has a circulation of 870,000 in France (over 8 editions) of which 510,000 is in Paris. With 2,160 million readers, 20 Minutes is the largest general-readership newspaper in France.
- Metronews: Circulation of over 800,000.
- Direct Matin: Published by a partnership of Bolloré and Le Monde. It produces its own content, and also republishes articles from Le Monde and Courrier international.
Evening
- Direct Soir: Published by Bolloré between 2006 and 2010. The group also publish the morning free newspaperMatinPlus in partnership with the press group La Vie-Le Monde.
21st century
- Les Échos Bought by LVMH in the fourth quarter of 2007.
- Le Monde Management struggles in 2007 and 2008. Groupe Le Monde was replaced in 2010 by financiers Xavier Niel, Pierre Bergé and Matthieu Pigasse.
- Le Figaro: Socpresse, publishers of Le Figaro, sold this in 2004 to Serge Dassault.
- Libération: Édouard de Rothschild pushed money into the title in 2005 when it found itself in financial difficulty. In 2006, Serge July (one of the founders of Libération with Jean-Paul Sartre), managing editor, was forced to resign. He was replaced by Laurent Joffrin, late of Libération and previous director of production at Le Nouvel Observateur, a magazine that was relaunched in March 2011. He was himself replaced by Nicolas Demorand. Businessman Bruno Ledoux became the second-largest shareholder in 2011. A rescue plan was launched in 2014 by Ledoux and Patrick Drahi, parting company with Rothschild; Joffrin resumed the leadership.
- France-Soir : Bought by Egyptian businessman Raymond Lakah. After another financial crisis, on 12 April 2006, it was relaunched by journalist Olivier Rey and businessman Jean-Pierre Brunois. It was re-relaunched in 2009 by Alexander Pougatchev, who closed it down in 2012.
- La Tribune was relaunched by Alain Weill in 2007, who sold 80% to the managing director Valérie Decamp.[2][3] In 2012 the newspaper later sacked him and changed from a daily to weekly format.
- In May 2013, the weekday liberal-leaning L'Opinion was launched by Nicolas Beytout.
The storm of new free titles, together with the expansion of Internet use and the closure of so many points of sale, a turndown in advertising revenue after the World financial crisis of 2007, the high cost of printing and other phenomena significantly affected the print media, especially dailies, which underwent a severe crisis.[4][5][6]
English-language
- The Connexion
- International New York Times (is based in Paris)
- The Local (online)
- Mediapart (English edition)
- Le Monde Diplomatique (translated edition)
Regional
Daily
- Centre Presse (Aveyron)
- Centre Presse (Vienne)
- Charente Libre (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Corse-Matin (Corsica)
- Dordogne libre (Dordogne)
- Éclair Pyrénées (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
- France-Guyane (French Guiana)
- France-Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
- L'Alsace-Le Pays (Alsace, Franche-Comté)
- L'Ardennais (Ardennes)
- L'Écho républicain (Eure-et-Loir, Yvelines)
- L'Est Républicain (Franche-Comté, Lorraine)
- L'Est-Éclair (Aube)
- L'Éveil de la Haute-Loire (Haute-Loire)
- L'Indépendant (Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude)
- L'Union (Marne, Aisne, Ardennes)
- L'Yonne républicaine (Yonne)
- La Dépêche du Midi (Midi-Pyrénées)
- La Dépêche de Tahiti (French Polynesia)
- La Marseillaise (Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var, Vaucluse, Gard, Hérault)
- La Montagne (Auvergne)
- La Nouvelle République des Pyrénées (Hautes-Pyrénées)
- La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (Centre, Poitou-Charentes)
- La Presse de la Manche (Manche)
- La Presse de Guyane (French Guiana)
- La Provence (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
- La République des Pyrénées (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- La République du Centre (Loiret)
- La Voix du Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais)
- Le Berry Républicain (Centre-Val de Loire)
- Le Bien Public (Côte-d'Or)
- Le Courrier de l'Ouest (Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres)
- Le Courrier Picard (Picardy)
- Le Dauphiné Libéré (Dauphiné, Savoy)
- Le Havre libre (Seine-Maritime)
- Le Havre presse (Seine-Maritime)
- Le Journal de l'île de la Réunion (Réunion)
- Le Journal de la Haute-Marne (Haute-Marne)
- Le Journal de Saône et Loire (Burgundy)
- Le Journal du Centre (Centre)
- Le Maine libre (Sarthe)
- Le Parisien (Île-de-France, Oise)
- Le Petit Bleu d'Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)
- Le Populaire du Centre (Creuse, Haute-Vienne)
- Le Progrès (Auvergne, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Rhône-Alpes)
- Le Quotidien de la Réunion (Réunion)
- Le Républicain Lorrain (Lorraine)
- Le Télégramme de Brest (Brittany)
- Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (Alsace)
- Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes (New Caledonia)
- Libération Champagne (Aube)
- Midi Libre (Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées)
- Nice-Matin (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
- Nord éclair (Nord)
- Nord Littoral (Pas-de-Calais)
- Ouest-France (Brittany, Lower Normandy, Pays de la Loire)
- Paris-Normandie (Normandy)
- Presse-Océan (Pays de la Loire)
- Sud Ouest (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Var-Matin (Var)
- Vosges Matin (Vosges)
Weekly
- Eure Infos (Eure)
- Journal de la Corse (Corsica)
- L'Abeille de la Ternoise (Pas-de-Calais, Somme)
- L'Action républicaine (Eure, Eure-et-Loir)
- L'Auvergnat de Paris (Île-de-France)
- L'Avenir (Charente)
- L'Aveyronnais (Aveyron)
- L'Éclaireur (Loire-Atlantique)
- L'Écho charitois (Nièvre)
- L'Écho de la Lys (Pas-de-Calais)
- L'Écho de la Presqu'île (Loire-Atlantique)
- L'Écho-Le Régional (Val-d'Oise)
- L'Éclaireur Brayon (Oise, Seine-Maritime)
- L'Éclaireur du Gâtinais (Loiret)
- L'Essor savoyard (Ain, Haute-Savoie, Savoie)
- L'Éveil de Pont-Audemer (Eure)
- L'Éveil hebdo (Haute-Loire)
- L'Éveil normand (Eure)
- L'Hebdo du vendredi (Marne)
- L'Impartial (Eure, Oise)
- L'Indicateur des Flandres (Flanders)
- L'Info éco (Vienne)
- L'Informateur (Seine-Maritime)
- L'Indépendant du Haut-Jura (Jura)
- L'Observateur de Beauvais (Oise)
- L'Observateur de l'Arrageois (Pas-de-Calais)
- L'Observateur de l'Aube (Aube)
- L'Observateur de l'Avesnois (Nord)
- L'Observateur du Cambrésis (Nord)
- L'Observateur du Douaisis (Nord)
- L'Observateur du Valenciennois (Nord)
- L'Opinion Indépendante (Haute-Garonne)
- L'Orne combattante (Orne, Calvados)
- L'Orne Hebdo (Orne)
- La Concorde (Deux-Sèvres)
- La Corse Votre Hebdo (Corsica)
- La Dépêche du pays de Bray (Oise, Seine-Maritime)
- La Gazette de Besançon (Doubs)
- La Gazette de la Loire (Loire)
- La Gazette de la Manche (Manche)
- La Gazette de Montpellier (Hérault)
- La Gazette de Thiers et d'Ambert (Puy-de-Dôme)
- La Gazette du Val d'Oise (Val-d'Oise)
- La Manche libre (Lower Normandy)
- La Marne (Seine-et-Marne)
- La Presse de Gray (Haute-Saône)
- La Presse de Vesoul (Haute-Saône)
- La République de Seine-et-Marne (Seine-et-Marne)
- La Ruche (Haute-Loire)
- La Savoie (Savoie)
- La Semaine dans le Boulonnais (Boulonnais)
- La Semaine de l'Allier (Allier)
- La Semaine des Ardennes (Ardennes)
- La Semaine du Roussillon (Pyrénées-Orientales)
- La Tribune républicaine de Bellegarde (Ain)
- La Vie corrézienne (Corrèze)
- La Vie quercynoise (Lot)
- La Vie nouvelle (Savoie)
- La Voix - Le Bocage (Calvados)
- La Voix du Cantal (Cantal)
- La Voix du Sancerrois (Cher)
- Le Bulletin de Darnetal (Seine-Maritime)
- Le Châtillonnais et l’Auxois (Côte-d'Or)
- Le Confolentais (Charente)
- Le Courrier français (Charente, Charente-Maritime, Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Vienne)
- Le Courrier cauchois (Seine-Maritime)
- Le Courrier de l'Eure (Eure)
- Le Courrier de Mantes (Yvelines)
- Le Courrier des Yvelines (Yvelines)
- Le Courrier du pays de Retz (Pays de Retz)
- Le Courrier du Loiret (Loiret)
- Le Courrier vendéen (Vendée)
- Le Crestois (Drôme)
- Le Démocrate de l'Aisne (Aisne)
- Le Démocrate vernonnais (Eure)
- Le Journal d'Abbeville (Somme)
- Le Journal d'Elbeuf (Eure, Seine-Maritime)
- Le Journal de l'Orne (Orne)
- Le Journal de Civray et du Sud-Vienne (Vienne)
- Le Journal de Ham (Somme)
- Le Journal de Gien (Loiret)
- Le Journal des Flandres (Flanders)
- Le Messager (Haute-Savoie)
- Le Nouvelliste (Haute-Vienne)
- Le Patriote Côte d'Azur (Alpes-Maritimes)
- Le Pays gessien (Ain)
- Le Pays malouin (Ille-et-Vilaine)
- Le Perche (Orne)
- Le Petit Bleu des Côtes d'Armor (Côtes-d'Armor)
- Le Petit Solognot (Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret)
- Le Régional de Cosne (Nièvre)
- Le Réveil de Neufchâtel (Oise, Seine-Maritime)
- Le Réveil du Vivarais (Loire, Ardèche, Isère, Drôme )
- Le Réveil normand (Orne, Eure)
- Le Saint-Affricain (Aveyron)
- Le Trégor (Côtes-d'Armor)
- Les Nouvelles de Falaise (Calvados)
- Liberté Hebdo (Nord)
- Lozère nouvelle (Lozère)
- Mayotte Hebdo (Mayotte)
- Marseille l'Hebdo (Bouches-du-Rhône)
- Oise Hebdo (Oise)
- Réussir le Périgord (Dordogne)
- Toutes les nouvelles (Yvelines)
- La Voix de l'Ain (Ain)
- Voix du Jura (Jura)
- Voix du Midi (Midi)
- wik (Lyon, Metz, Nancy, Nantes, Strasbourg)
- Ya ! (Finistère)
Biweekly
- La Renaissance - Le Bessin (Calvados)
- Le Pays briard (Seine-et-Marne)
- Les Informations dieppoises (Seine-Maritime)
Monthly
- Bretons (Morbihan)
- L'Essentiel des Pays de Savoie (Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Isère, Ain)
- Le Mensuel de Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)
- Le Peuple breton (Brittany)
- Mémento (Réunion)
- Métropole, le mensuel du Var (Var)
- Normandie Magazine (Normandy)
- Particule (Ille-et-Vilaine)
- Poly (Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comté)
Bimonthly
- Bretagne Magazine (Brittany)
Quarterly
- L'Anjou
- La Galipote (Auvergne)
- Le Berry
- Le Journal de la Sologne (Centre-Val de Loire)
- Les Saisons d'Alsace (Alsace)
- Le Magazine de la Touraine
- Massif Central (newspaper)
- Patrimoine normand (Normandy)
- Xaintonge, le jhornau des Charentais
Former newspapers
- L'Ami du peuple, founded by Marat
- La Citoyenne, 1881–1891 (feminist)
- Combat, 1944–1974, founded during the Resistance, hosted articles by Camus, Sartre, Malraux
- Le Courrier français, 1884–1914 (conservative)
- Le Journal des débats, 1789–1944 (conservative)
- L'Express du Midi, 1891–1938 (conservative and royalist)
- La Gazette, 1631–1915, first French weekly, founded by Renaudot, became the mouthpiece of the Legitimist monarchists
- Le Globe, 1824–1832, founded by the republican and socialist Leroux, mouthpiece of the Saint-Simonists starting in 1830
- Je suis partout, 1930–1944, far-right newspaper, Collaborationist during the Vichy era
- Le Journal, 1892–1944
- Le Matin, 1884–1944
- Le National, 1830–1851 (liberal, founded by Thiers and Carrel)
- Naye Prese, 1934–1993
- Paris-Soir, 1923–1944
- Le Père Duchesne, 1790–1794, edited by Hébert
- Le Père Duchesne (other newspapers)
- Le Petit Parisien, 1876–1944
- Le Temps, 1861–1942, compromised by collaboration during Vichy regime, replaced as the newspaper of record by the newly created Le Monde
- La Voix des Femmes, 1848–1852 (feminist)
- La Voix des femmes, 1917-1937 (feminist)
German-language
Ottoman Turkish
See also
References
- 1 2 "CLASSEMENT PRESSE QUOTIDIENNE NATIONALE 2013–2014". OJD France (in French). Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ↑ Reitzaum, Hélène; Derreumaux, Olivia (21 December 2011). "NextRadio TV doit croître face aux chaînes historiques" [NextRadio TV breaks its historical chains]. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ↑ "Alain Weill cède 80% de "La Tribune"". 20 Minutes (in French). 20 May 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ↑ Santi, Pascale (31 August 2008). "Presse quotidienne nationale : les raisons d'une crise très française". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ↑ Bajos, Sandrine; Cassini, Sandrine (30 January 2012). "La fin d'un quotidien national, symptôme d'une presse malade". La Tribune (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ↑ Anizon, Emmanuelle; Sénéjoux, Richard; Tesquet, Olivier (12 January 2013). "Qu'arrive-t-il à la presse écrite? L'abécédaire de la crise". Télérama (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ↑ "Pariser Tageblatt : le quotidien de Paris en langue allemande". Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) (in German). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Pariser Tagezeitung, Quotidien Anti-Hitlerien à Paris". Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) (in German). Retrieved 28 March 2018.
Further reading
- Blackburn, George M. "Paris Newspapers and the American Civil War." Illinois Historical Journal (1991): 177–193. in JSTOR
- Censer, Jack Richard. Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France (Univ of California Press, 1987)
- Chalaby, Jean K. "Twenty years of contrast: The French and British press during the inter-war period." European Journal of Sociology 37.01 (1996): 143–159. 1919-39
- Collins, Irene. The government and the newspaper press in France, 1814-1881 (Oxford University Press, 1959)
- Collins, Ross F., and E. M. Palmegiano, eds. The Rise of Western Journalism 1815-1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States (2007), Chapter on France by Ross Collins
- Cragin, Thomas J. "The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France." Book History 4.1 (2001): 49–80. online
- Edelstein, Melvin. "La Feuille villageoise, the Revolutionary Press, and the Question of Rural Political Participation." French Historical Studies (1971): 175–203. in JSTOR
- Eisendrath, Charles R. "Politics and Journalism--French Connection." Columbia Journalism Review 18.1 (1979): 58-61
- Freiberg, J. W. The French press: class, state, and ideology (Praeger Publishers, 1981)
- Goldstein, Robert Justin. "Fighting French Censorship, 1815-1881." French Review (1998): 785–796. in JSTOR
- Gough, Hugh. The newspaper press in the French Revolution (Taylor & Francis, 1988)
- Isser, Natalie. The Second Empire and the Press: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu (Springer, 1974)
- Kerr, David S. Caricature and French Political Culture 1830-1848: Charles Philipon and the Illustrated Press (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Thogmartin, Clyde. The national daily press of France (Birmingham Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 1998), 370pp
- Trinkle, Dennis A. The Napoleonic press: the public sphere and oppositionary journalism (Edwin Mellen Pr, 2002)
- Weigle, Clifford. "The Paris Press from 1920 to 1940" Journalism Quarterly (1941) 18: 376–84.
- Weigle, Clifford. "The Rise and Fall of the Havas News Agency" Journalism Quarterly (1942) 19:277-86
- Williams, Roger Lawrence. Henri Rochefort, prince of the gutter press (Scribner, 1966)
- Zerner, Elisabeth H. "Rumors in Paris Newspapers," Public Opinion Quarterly (1946) 10#3 pp. 382–391 in JSTOR In summer 1945
External links
- (in English) Regular French Press Review - Radio France International
- Brander Mathews, "Notes on Parisian Newspapers," The Century 35 (December 1, 1887): 200-12
- Actualités françaises de France - WorldNewsList, Journaux français
- "The daily press in France," compared to the press in the UK, on About-France.com
- English translations of articles from French newspapers at nonprofit WorldMeets.US
- Le Guide Presse : French press directory, index of all French newspapers and magazines