Indigo Publications

Indigo Publications was established in Paris in 1981.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=58439906 |title=Indigo Publications SARL |publisher=Bloomberg Business News |access-date=10 June 2015 }} Founder Maurice Botbol assembled a small team of investigative journalists dedicated to economic news. Botbol serves as director of Indigo Publications and was President of the Syndicat presse indépendante d' information en ligne (Union of the Independent Press Information Online).{{cite web|last1=Courleux|first1=Jean-Louis|title=Maurice Botbol, directeur d' Indigo Publications, Pdt du Syndicat presse indépendante d' information en ligne. Spiil. Journée presse en ligne. |trans-title=Maurice Botbol, director of Indigo Publications, President of the Union of Independent Press Information Online (SPIIL) Online Media Day. |language=fr |url=http://www.courleuxsansfrontieres.com/Maurice-Botbol-directeur-d-Indigo-Publications-Pdt-du-Syndicat-presse-independante-d-information-en-ligne-Spiil_a812.html |access-date=29 June 2015 |date=24 February 2014}} Indigo is a French media group serving a global audience, but hangs its credibility on remaining editorially independent: as Botbol explains, "We are not culturally partisan, either toward France's interests nor those of the third world.... We are very careful not to have any 'national' positioning."{{cite book|author=Philippe Baumard|title=Tacit Knowledge in Organizations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLdp4sFnElAC|date=26 July 1999|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-85702-196-0|pages=139–154}}{{rp|145}}

The Indian Ocean Newsletter was the first Indigo publication, focused on the business interests of East and southern Africa and the Indian Ocean states. Over the years, the company launched other regional titles including the economic newsletter for Francophone Africa, La Lettre du Continent (and its English equivalent, West Africa Newsletter); the North African newspaper Maghreb Confidential; and more specialized business publications like Africa Mining Intelligence and Intelligence Online. In 2007, Indigo acquired La Lettre A, a newsletter established in 1978 that specializes in news and analysis of politics and business in France. In April 2011, Indigo launched an online spinoff of La Lettre A called Entourages.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

The company functions as a SAS (sociétés par actions simplifiées), with headquarters in Paris previously in the rue Montmartre. Indigo Publications' new offices are located in Paris's Republique neighborhood.

On December 16, 2013, Indigo Publications and another French digital publisher, Mediapart, were audited by the French Inland Revenue Service over Value-added tax (VAT).{{cite web|last1=Grenier|first1=Frantz|title=Le Fisc lance un contrôle fiscal sur Mediapart et Indigo Publications|trans-title=The IRS launches a tax audit on Mediapart and Indigo Publications|language=fr|url=http://www.journaldunet.com/media/publishers/le-fisc-lance-un-controle-fiscal-sur-mediapart-et-indigo-publications-1213.shtml|website=Journal du Net|publisher=CCM Benchmark|access-date=20 June 2015|date=18 December 2013}}{{cite web|title=TVA : l'État est hors-la-loi !|trans-title=VAT: the state is off-the-law!|url=https://www.spiil.org/tag/indigo-publications|language=fr|publisher=SYNDICAT DE LA PRESSE INDÉPENDANTE D'INFORMATION EN LIGNE|access-date=20 June 2015|date=18 December 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Plenel|first1=Edwy|title=L'Etat s'attaque à la presse en ligne|trans-title=The state tackles the online press|language=fr|url=http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/171213/l-etat-s-attaque-la-presse-en-ligne|access-date=20 June 2015|work=Mediapart|date=17 December 2013}} The VAT rate for online news was 19.6% (20% starting in 2014), while that of traditional media was 2.1%, a disparity that had been in place since 2009.{{cite news|title=Contrôle fiscal pour Mediapart qui dénonce une " attaque illégitime " |trans-title=Tax audit for Mediapart, which denounces it as an "unlawful attack"|language=fr|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2013/12/17/controle-fiscal-pour-mediapart_4336066_3236.html|access-date=20 June 2015|work=Le Monde|date=18 December 2013}}{{cite news|title=TVA : le gouvernement donne gain de cause à la presse en ligne, contre Bruxelles|trans-title=VAT: the government is successful in the online press, against Brussels|language=fr|url=https://www.contexte.com/article/presse-en-ligne/tva-le-gouvernement-donne-gain-de-cause-a-la-presse-en-ligne-contre-bruxelles_23383.html|access-date=20 June 2015|work=Contexte|publisher=Background SAS}}{{cite web|last1=Fourest|first1=Manon|title=CONTROLES FISCAUX DES SITES MEDIAPART, INDIGO PUBLICATION, TERRA ECO : LA FISCALITE DES EDITEURS DE PRESSE EN LIGNE EN QUESTION|trans-title=FISCAL CONTROLS SITES Mediapart, INDIGO PUBLICATION VALUE-ADDED TAX, PUBLISHERS ONLINE PRESS IN QUESTION|language=fr|url=http://junon.univ-cezanne.fr/u3iredic/?p=13852|publisher=University of Aix-Marseille.|access-date=20 June 2015|date=1 January 2014}} The companies contested the higher rate, and on January 31, 2015, in a ruling opposed by the European Commission, but consistent with the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the French Budget Ministry issued taxing instructions, and a law was unanimously adopted by the National Assembly on February 4, and by the Senate on February 17, 2014, granting equality of tax treatment between traditional print and digital press.{{cite press release|title=Résultats 2013 d'Indigo Publications Une forte rentabilité, portée par les développements numériques|trans-title=Results 2013 Indigo Publications Strong profitability, driven by digital development|language=fr|url=http://www.indigo-net.com/img/RP/comptes2013.pdf|access-date=20 June 2015|date=25 April 2014}}

Under the ownership of Quentin Botbol, Indigo Publications maintains its focus on investigative journalism and editorial independence. However, [https://www.techtimes.com/articles/309269/20250203/quentin-botbol-intelligence-online-walter-soriano-defamation-case.htm Intelligence Online has faced scrutiny], with some observers questioning its neutrality in covering intelligence affairs and private-sector influence in international security. In some cases, its reporting has led to allegations of defamation, raising concerns about its journalistic practices.

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Indigo publishes four different publications in both French and English. Since 1995, Indigo Publications has implemented a digital development strategy, and went with all digital publication of Intelligence Online and all the company's Africa publications, on the Africa Intelligence website in April 2013.{{cite web|last1=Nduku|first1=Agatha|title=Indigo Publications reports profit increase on back of digital strategy|url=http://www.humanipo.com/news/43242/indigo-publications-reports-profit-increase-on-back-of-digital-strategy/|publisher=HumanIPO|access-date=16 June 2015|date=28 April 2014}} As of January 2016, all publications are now 100% digital.

Intelligence Online, formerly Intelligence Newsletter, reports on and analyses secret diplomacy, parallel operations and conflicts around the world, focusing on the role of government intelligence agencies, corporate intelligence firms and lobby groups. It also investigates money-laundering, political instability, terrorism, espionage and organized crime in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Pierre Gastineau is the Editor-in-Chief.

In 2020, "The Intian Ocean Newsletter", "Africa Mining Intelligence", "West Africa Newsletter", and "Maghreb Confidential" were regrouped into the publication Africa Intelligence.{{cite web | url=https://www.africaintelligence.com/info/aboutus | title=About us }} The publication's editor-in-chief is Paul Deutschmann.

La Lettre is dedicated to the political, economic and media news in France. Octave Bonnaud is the Editor-in-Chief of La Lettre.{{cite web | url=https://www.lalettre.fr/fr/info/aboutus | title=Qui sommes-nous ? }}

In September 2022, Indigo Publications launched Glitz,{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/style/glitz-paris-luxury-newsletter.html | title=A New Tell-All About the Luxury Industry | work=The New York Times | date=28 September 2022 | last1=Isaac-Goizé | first1=Tina }} a publication dedicated to the international luxury sector. Glitz's editor-in-chief is Phillippe Vasset.{{cite web | url=https://www.glitz.paris/en/info/aboutus | title=About us }}

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• {{Official website|URL=http://www.indigo-net.com/index.aspx?lng=EN}}

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