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 he 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 edior, 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 L'irruption des gratuits, l'expansion d'Internet, la fermeture de nombreux points de vente, la baisse des revenus publicitaires à la suite de la crise économique de la fin des années 2000, the high cost of printing and other phenomena significantly affected the print media, especially dailies, which underwent a severe crisis.^[4][5][6]

See also

• French newspapers
• Online newspaper
• Presse quotidienne régionale française, the equivalent organisation for the regional press

Notes

References

1. "CLASSEMENT PRESSE QUOTIDIENNE NATIONALE 2013–2014". OJD France (in French). Retrieved 8 January 2015.
2. 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.
3. "Alain Weill cède 80% de "La Tribune"". 20 Minutes (in French). 20 May 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
4. Santi, Pascale (31 August 2008). "Presse quotidienne nationale : les raisons d'une crise très française". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
5. 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.
6. 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.