List of newspapers in France
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Below is a list of newspapers in France.
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National
Daily
- La Croix (daily, Catholic/Christian democrat)
- Les Échos (business, economics, daily)
- L'Équipe (sports, daily)
- Le Figaro (daily, centre-right)
- L'Humanité (daily, Communist/far-left)
- Libération (daily, left-wing)
- Le Monde (daily, centre-left)
- L'Opinion (daily, classical liberal)
- Le Parisien / Aujourd'hui en France (daily)
- Online newspapers
- France Soir (switched to internet only in 2011, shutdown in 2012, returned online in 2014)
- 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, no specific political views)
- L'Express (centre-right)
- 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)
- Minute (far-right)
- 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)
English-language
- The Connexion
- International New York Times (is based in Paris)
- The Local (online)
- Mediapart (English edition)
- Le Monde Diplomatique (translated edition)
- The Locus (online)[1]
Regional
- L'Alsace-Le Pays (Alsace)
- Le Berry Républicain (Centre-Val de Loire)
- Le Bien Public (Burgundy)
- Charente Libre (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Corse-Matin (Corsica)
- Journal de la Corse (Corsica)
- Le Courrier Picard (Picardy)
- Le Dauphiné Libéré (Dauphiné, Savoy)
- La Dépêche du Midi (Midi-Pyrénées)
- Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (Alsace)
- L'Est Républicain (Franche-Comté, Lorraine)
- L'Indépendant (Languedoc-Roussillon)
- Le Journal de Saône et Loire (Burgundy)
- Le Journal du Centre (Centre)
- Midi Libre (Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées)
- La Montagne (Auvergne)
- Nice-Matin (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
- Nord éclair (Nord-Pas de Calais)
- La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (Centre, Poitou-Charentes)
- Ouest-France (Brittany, Lower Normandy, Pays de la Loire)
- Paris-Normandie (Normandy)
- Le Parisien (Île-de-France, Oise)
- Presse-Océan (Pays de la Loire)
- Le Progrès (Auvergne, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Rhône-Alpes)
- La Provence (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
- Le Républicain Lorrain (Lorraine)
- La République des Pyrénées (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Sud Ouest (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Le Télégramme de Brest (Brittany)
- La Voix du Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais)
Former newspapers
- L'Ami du peuple founded by Marat
- La Citoyenne, 1881-1891 (feminist)
- Combat, 1944-1974 (founded during the Resistance, hosted articles by Albert Camus, Sartre, Malraux, etc.)
- Le Journal des débats, 1789-1944 (conservative)
- La Gazette, 1631–1915, first French weekly, founded by Théophraste Renaudot, became the mouthpiece of the Legitimist monarchists
- Le Globe, 1824–1832, founded by the republican and socialist Pierre Leroux, mouthpiece of the Saint-Simonists starting in 1830
- Je suis partout, 1930–1944, far-right newspaper, Collaborationist during Vichy
- Le Journal, 1892-1944
- Le Matin, 1884-1944
- Le National, 1830-1851 (liberal, founded by Adolphe Thiers and Armand Carrel)
- Paris-Soir, 1923-1944
- Le Père Duchesne, 1790-1794 (edited by Jacques 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)
See also
- History of French newspapers
- History of newspapers and magazines#France
- Media of France
- Telecommunications in France
References
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, 19880
- 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
- Template:En icon Regular French Press Review - Radio France International
- Brander Mathews, “Notes on Parisian Newspapers,” The Century 35 (December 1, 1887): 200-12
- “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