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List of newspapers in France

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Below is a list of newspapers in France.

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National

= Daily =

class="wikitable sortable"

! Name

! Logo

! Founded

! Circulation

! Chief editor

! Ideology

! Political position

! Group

! Remarks

{{Lang|fr|La Croix}}

|150px

|15 June 1883

|89,735 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/la-croix |title=La Croix − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

| Jérôme Chapuis, Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner

|Christian democracy

|Centre-right

|Bayard Presse

|Roman-Catholic newspaper founded by the assumptionists

{{Lang|fr|Les Échos}}

|

|1908

|140,679 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/les-echos |title=Les Echos − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Christophe Jakubyszyn

|Neo-liberalism, liberalism

|Centre-right

|LVMH (Bernard Arnault)

|Primarily financial

{{Lang|fr|L'Équipe}}

|150px

|1946

|219,880 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/l-equipe |title=L'Equipe − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Lionel Dangoumau

|

|

|Groupe Amaury

|Sports newspaper, successor to L'Auto, founded in 1900

{{Lang|fr|Le Figaro}}

|150px

|15 January 1826

|357,695 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/le-figaro |title=Le Figaro − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Robert Mergui

|Liberal conservatism, Gaullism, conservatism

|Right-wing

|Socpresse - Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault (Dassault Family)

|Oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in France

{{Lang|fr|L'Humanité}}

|150px

|18 April 1904

|38,084 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/l-humanite |title=L'Humanité − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Fabien Gay

|Socialism, communism

|Left-wing

|Société nouvelle du journal l'Humanité

|Founded by Jean Jaurès, was the organ of the French Communist Party from 1920 to 1994

{{Lang|fr|Libération}}

|150px

|18 April 1973

|103,218 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/liberation |title=Libération − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Dov Alfon

|Socialism, social democracy

|Left-wing

|SARL Libération

|Founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July

{{Lang|fr|Le Monde}}

|150px

|1944

|494,500 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/le-monde |title=Le Monde − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Jérôme Fenoglio

|Social liberalism, social democracy

|Centre-left

|Groupe Le Monde

|Newspaper of record in France. Politically independent, often leans to centre-left views. Le Monde is the only evening newspaper in this list

{{Lang|fr|L'Opinion}}

|150px

|2013

|

|Rémi Godeau

|Liberal conservatism, Pro-Europeanism, Neoliberalism

|Right-wing

|Bey Medias Presse & Internet

|Most recent national daily newspaper

{{Lang|fr|Le Parisien / Aujourd'hui en France}}

|150px

|1944

|259,958 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/couplage-le-parisien-aujourd-hui-en-france |title=Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|Nicolas Charbonneau

|

|Centre to centre-right

|LVMH (Bernard Arnault)

|Popular Parisian newspaper with a national version (Aujourd'hui en France). Circulation figures for both are combined here

{{Lang|fr|Le Petit Quotidien}}

|150px

|1998

|32,596 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/le-petit-quotidien |title=Le Petit Quotidien − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|François Dufour

|

|

|Play Bac Presse

|Newspaper for children aged 6-10

{{Lang|fr|Mon Quotidien}}

|

|1995

|30,480 (2023){{cite web |url=https://www.acpm.fr/Support/mon-quotidien |title=Mon Quotidien − History |website=Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias |language=fr |access-date=20 July 2024 }}

|François Dufour

|

|

|Play Bac Presse

|Newspaper for children aged 10-14

; Online newspapers

; Free newspapers

  • 20 Minutes : The Norwegian group Schibsted launched it in France at the beginning of 2002. It has a circulation of {{formatnum:766000}} in France (over 8 editions), of which {{formatnum:492000}} is in Paris. It has been considered the largest general-interest newspaper in France.

As of 16 October 2022, there is only one free national daily newspaper in France: 20 Minutes, which is often distributed in train stations and other busy areas on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Other free newspapers such as Direct Matin are now defunct.

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English-language

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Former newspapers

=German-language=

  • {{ill|Pariser Tageblatt|de}}, 1933-1936 (German-language daily for German exiles in France){{cite web |url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D984069674 |title=Pariser Tageblatt : le quotidien de Paris en langue allemande |language=de |website=Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) |access-date=28 March 2018}}
  • Pariser Tageszeitung (see {{ill|Pariser Tageblatt|de}}), 1936-1940 (Anti-Hitler daily for expatriates){{cite web |url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D984069682 |title=Pariser Tagezeitung, Quotidien Anti-Hitlerien à Paris |language=de |website=Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) |access-date=28 March 2018}}

=Ottoman Turkish=

See also

References

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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. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bh/summary/v004/4.1cragin.html online]
  • Edelstein, Melvin. "La Feuille villageoise, the Revolutionary Press, and the Question of Rural Political Participation." French Historical Studies (1971): 175–203. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/285982 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. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/398913 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 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2745541 in JSTOR] In summer 1945

External links

  • {{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20090416190350/http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/listes/001/liste_type_article_54.asp Regular French Press Review] - Radio France International
  • Brander Mathews, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090306045046/http://ringmar.net/europeanfury/?page_id=1632 Notes on Parisian Newspapers]," The Century 35 (December 1, 1887): 200-12
  • [https://www.worldnewslist.com/fr/actualites-francaises-de-france-belgique-apprendre-le-francais Actualités françaises de France - WorldNewsList], Journaux français
  • "[http://about-france.com/french-newspapers.htm The daily press in France]," compared to the press in the UK, on About-France.com
  • [http://worldmeets.us/index.shtml English translations of articles from French newspapers at nonprofit WorldMeets.US]
  • [http://www.press-directory.com Le Guide Presse : French press directory], index of all French newspapers and magazines

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