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Le Monde
French daily newspaper founded in 1944
Le Figaro
French daily newspaper
Euronews
Euronews is a pan-European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. It is a provider of livestreamed news, which can be viewed in Europe and North Africa via satellite, and in most of the world via its website, on YouTube, and on various mobile devices and digital media players.
France 24
French state-owned international news television network based in Paris
Libération
' (), popularly known as Libé''''' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of France's political spectrum, the editorial line evolved towards a more centre-left stance at the end of the 1970s, where it remains as of 2012.
L'Équipe
'''''L'Équipe''' (; French for "The Team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, L'Auto, was founded by wealthy conservative industrialists to undermine Le Vélo'', which they found too progressive. It was a general sports paper that also covered the auto racing which was gaining popularity at the turn of the twentieth century.
Le Parisien
French newspaper
Le Nouvel Obs
weekly French newsmagazine
L'Express
'''' (, stylized in all caps) is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris. The weekly stands at the political centre-right in the French media landscape, and has a lifestyle supplement, L'Express Styles, and a job supplement, Réussir. Founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud, L'Express'' would be considered France's first American-style news weekly. ''L'Express is one of the three major French news weeklies alongside Le Nouvel Obs and Le Point''.
Le Point
French weekly news magazine
France Soir
France Soir () was a French newspaper that prospered in physical format during the 1950s and 1960s, reaching a circulation of 1.5 million in the 1950s. It declined rapidly under various owners and was relaunched as a populist tabloid in 2006. However, the company went bankrupt on 23 July 2012, before re-emerging as an online-only media in 2016. In 2020, according to NewsGuard, this media "fails to adhere to several basic journalistic standards".
Mediapart
Mediapart () is an independent nonprofit French investigative online newspaper created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, former editor-in-chief of . It is published in French, English, and Spanish. The newspaper is owned by Le Fonds pour une Presse Libre, a non-profit trust created to support freedom of the press. It has produced hundreds of investigations over the past 15 years, on political corruption, financial fraud, environmental crimes, as well as on sexual harassment and police violence. The New York Times has called Mediapart "France's leading investigative news site". By early 2025, Mediapart
France Médias Monde
French state-owned mass media company
Le Télégramme
French daily newspaper
Presseurop
Presseurop was a multilingual Paris-based news portal that translated and published Europe-related news articles daily from over two hundred sources into ten European languages, including English. It was funded by the European Commission and was launched in 2009 by the French newspaper Courrier International, the Portuguese newspaper Courrier Internacional, the Polish newspaper Forum, and the Italian newspaper Internazionale.
The Local
multi-regional English-language digital news publisher
Balistrad
Balistrad is a Haitian online newspaper founded in 2018 by Fincy Pierre. Balistrad is published in French and Haitian Creole. Balistrad is an independent media company producing content for the web.
Rue89
Rue89 is a French news website started by former journalists from the newspaper Libération. It was officially launched on 6 May 2007, on the day of the second round of the French presidential election. Its news editor is Pascal Riché, former op-ed editor of Libération, and its chief editor. The president of the society Rue89 is Pierre Haski, the former deputy editor of Libération.
L'Union
French regional daily newspaper
AgoraVox
AgoraVox is a French language news website founded in March 2005 by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay. AgoraVox was one of the first citizen journalism websites in France, and is similar to the community sites ''L'Echo du Village'' (1998) and Indymedia (1999). According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, "AgoraVox is one of the most prominent European examples of a citizen journalism site".
Franceinfo
French news service
Contrepoints
Contrepoints is a French online magazine founded in 2009. The name of the newspaper is a reference to Contrepoint, a now-defunct newspaper launched by French philosopher Raymond Aron.
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