{"id":21244,"date":"2014-09-16T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=21244"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:58:49","slug":"le-journal-an-overview-of-french-newspapers-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/le-journal-an-overview-of-french-newspapers-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Journal: An overview of French Newspapers (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for joining me once again as we review a selection of the most widely read french newspapers. In part 1<\/a>, I presented an overview of the different sections found in a typical newspaper that will help you navigate its contents. In part 2<\/a>, we learned about Le Monde<\/i> and Le Figaro<\/i> and in part 3<\/a>, we looked at Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i> and Lib\u00e9ration<\/i>. Today, let\u2019s delve into two more journaux<\/b> (newspapers) that grace the racks of most newsstands in France: L\u2019Express<\/i> and l\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/i>.<\/p>\n

L\u2019Express<\/b><\/p>\n

Originally printed as a suppl\u00e9ment hebdomadaire<\/b> (weekly supplement) to the economic newspaper Les \u00c9chos <\/i>in 1953, L\u2019Express<\/i><\/a> morphed into the first french newsmagazine by 1964.\u00a0 Columns written by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Andr\u00e9 Malraux among others lent prestige and a certain validity to L\u2019Express that readers had been seeking in other news outlets of the day.<\/p>\n

The transition from supplement to full-fledged newsmagazine in 1964 brought with it some changes. Plusieurs journalistes quittent L\u2019Express<\/i> pour fonder Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i><\/b> (Several journalists leave L\u2019Express<\/i> to found Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i>). As a result, the magazine becomes less politically centered which leads to a tripling of its readership over the span of just three years.<\/p>\n

In 1995, L\u2019Express<\/i> forged a new path in the emerging world of digital news when it launched la premi\u00e8re version \u00e9lectronique<\/b> (the first electronic version) of a weekly french newspaper. Today, lexpress.fr<\/a>\u00a0is one of the most frequented french news websites avec plus de deux millions de visiteurs par mois<\/b> (with more than two million visitors a month).<\/p>\n

l\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/b><\/p>\n

One of the oldest french newspapers still in circulation, l\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/i><\/a> began informing readers in 1904. Ce journal quotidien<\/b> (This daily paper) was founded by Jean Jaur\u00e8s, a french socialist who believed in \u201cla communion avec le mouvement ouvrier<\/b>\u201d (\u201cagreement with the labor movement\u201d) and for nearly seventy-five years was guided by le Parti Communiste Fran\u00e7ais<\/b> (French Communist Party). Similar to L\u2019Express<\/i>, l\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/i> became a paper for intellectuals thanks to columns written by such illustrious characters as Aristide Brian, L\u00e9on Blum, et al.<\/p>\n

Because of its communist\/socialist leanings, l\u2019Humanit\u00e9\u2019<\/i>s popularity waxed and waned over the course of several decades and with the stream of world events, namely the two World Wars and the Cold War. L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/i> supported la<\/b> lib\u00e9ration nationale \u00e0 travers le monde<\/b> (national liberation throughout the world), a practice that generated considerable controversy pendant<\/b> les guerres d\u2019Alg\u00e9rie et d\u2019Indochine<\/b> (during the wars of Algeria and Indochina).<\/p>\n

In 1996, l\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/i> launched its website at humanite.fr<\/a>\u00a0containing archives of columns from its physical newspaper dating back to 1990. Visit la Boutique<\/i><\/a> on the web o\u00f9 vous aurez acc\u00e8s \u00e0 une s\u00e9lection d\u2019abonnements<\/b> (where you will have access to a selection of subscriptions) in both digital and paper formats.<\/p>\n

Join me next time for our final installment in this series on french newspapers. \u00c0 bient\u00f4t<\/b> (See you soon)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Thank you for joining me once again as we review a selection of the most widely read french newspapers. In part 1, I presented an overview of the different sections found in a typical newspaper that will help you navigate its contents. In part 2, we learned about Le Monde and Le Figaro and in…<\/p>\n

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