{"id":21240,"date":"2014-09-15T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=21240"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:59:04","slug":"le-journal-an-overview-of-french-newspapers-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/le-journal-an-overview-of-french-newspapers-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Journal: An overview of French Newspapers (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bonjour une fois de plus<\/b> (Hello once again). I hope you took the time to look into les journaux<\/b> (the newspapers) I reviewed dans la deuxi\u00e8me partie<\/b><\/a> (in the second part) of this series on French newspapers. Both Le Monde<\/i> and Le Figaro<\/i> are excellent publications featuring quality journalism. Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i> and Lib\u00e9ration <\/i>are also very popular newspapers that offer a different perspective on the news. Let\u2019s look at them in greater detail.<\/p>\n

Le Nouvel Observateur<\/b><\/p>\n

Founded in 1964, Le Nouvel Observateur <\/i>(The New Observer) is actually a newsmagazine. The magazine saw the light over a decade earlier in 1950 as L\u2019Observateur politique, \u00e9conomique et litt\u00e9raire<\/i> <\/b>(The political, economic and literary Observer). In 1953, the name changed to simply l\u2019Observateur<\/i> and then to France Observateur<\/i> in 1954.<\/p>\n

Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i> has always been un<\/b> magazine hebdomadaire<\/b> (a weekly magazine) avec une orientation centre-gauche<\/b> (with a center-left orientation) and more than cinq cent mille lecteurs<\/b> (five hundred thousand readers) making it by far the most widely read newsmagazine in France. According to Claude Perdriel, the magazine\u2019s founder, Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i> \u201cest un journal social-d\u00e9mocrate de gauche\u201d <\/b>(is a leftist social-democratic newspaper).<\/p>\n

Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i> focuses on the world of business, la politique<\/b> (politics), and l\u2019\u00e9conomie<\/b> (the economy). Unlike some French papers, political and cultural issues of l\u2019Europe<\/b> (Europe), l\u2019Afrique<\/b> (Africa) and le Moyen-Orient <\/b>(the Middle East) are covered in depth.<\/p>\n

The magazine entered the digital age in 1999 with its website nouvelobs.com<\/a>. You will find the usual sections such as Politique<\/b> (Politics), Soci\u00e9t\u00e9<\/b> (Society), and \u00c9co<\/b> (short for Economy) as well as Monde<\/b> (World), Culture<\/b>, Sant\u00e9<\/b> (Health), and Sport<\/b>. You can subscribe to the digital magazine for as little as 1 \u20ac par mois<\/b> (1 Euro a month) which is a fantastic deal.<\/p>\n

Lib\u00e9ration<\/b><\/p>\n

Bursting onto the scene a decade after Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i>, Lib\u00e9ration<\/i> began as un journal situ\u00e9 a l\u2019extr\u00eame gauche<\/b> (a newspaper situated on the extreme left). In the 80s and 90s, this journal quotidien<\/b> (daily newspaper) shifted to a centre-gauche<\/b> (center-left) orientation, a position it maintains to this day.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, one of the founding members of Lib\u00e9ration<\/i> was Jean-Paul Sartre, un<\/b> \u00e9crivain et philosophe<\/b> Fran\u00e7ais<\/b> (a French writer and philosopher) and a leading figure of existentialism who became active in politics apr\u00e8s la Seconde Guerre mondiale <\/b>(after the second World War).<\/p>\n

The paper has had its share of ups and downs over the course of quatre d\u00e9cennies <\/b>(four decades) but remains a fairly popular source of news avec un lectorat de pr\u00e8s de deux cent mille<\/b> (with a readership of nearly two hundred thousand).<\/p>\n

The usual sections grace the homepage of Lib\u00e9ration<\/i> at liberation.fr<\/a>\u00a0but you will also find atypical sections such as Cannabis<\/i>, Prostitution <\/i>and Sex & Genre<\/i>. You can even listen to Lib\u00e9Radio<\/i><\/a>, the newspaper\u2019s very own radio station.<\/p>\n

If Le Monde<\/i> or Le Figaro<\/i> do not offer what you seek in a French newspaper, go ahead and try out Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i> or Lib\u00e9ration<\/i> for a different take on French news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Bonjour une fois de plus (Hello once again). I hope you took the time to look into les journaux (the newspapers) I reviewed dans la deuxi\u00e8me partie (in the second part) of this series on French newspapers. Both Le Monde and Le Figaro are excellent publications featuring quality journalism. Le Nouvel Observateur and Lib\u00e9ration are…<\/p>\n

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