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Le Parisien

Le Parisien (lit. 'The Parisian') is a French newspaper that covers international and national news as well as local news from the Paris area. It has been a subsidiary of Bernard Arnault's LVMH since 2015.[2]

History and profile

The paper was established as Le Parisien libéré (lit. 'The Freed Parisian') by Émilien Amaury in 1944,[3][4] and was published for the first time on 22 August 1944. The paper was originally launched as the organ of the French underground during the German occupation of France in World War II.[4]

The name was changed to the current one in 1986.[3] A national edition exists, called Aujourd'hui en France (lit. 'Today in France').

LVMH acquired the paper from Éditions Philippe Amaury in 2015.[5]

Circulation

Le Parisien had a circulation near to one million copies in the early 1970s.[6] The paper reached a circulation of 659,200 copies on 24 April 1995, the day after the first round of the presidential election.[3] In the period of 1995–1996 the paper had a circulation of 451,159 copies.[7]

The combined circulation of Le Parisien was 485,000 copies in 2001.[8] The paper had a circulation of 147,143 copies and a combined circulation of 360,505 copies in 2002.[9] It was the second largest regional newspaper in France with a combined circulation of 530,000 copies in 2008,[10] behind Ouest-France, which had a circulation of about 800,000 copies. The circulation of Le Parisien was 229,638 copies in 2014.[11] The circulation of Le Parisien was 264,952 copies in 2020.[12]

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References

  1. "Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France est et doit rester un grand quotidien populaire et généraliste de qualité. Il tient à préserver sa ligne éditoriale, faite de neutralité politique et de proximité avec son lectorat" (archived 21 May 2015). Reuters.^
  2. The World's Real-time Billionaires Forbes, retrieved 2024-01-15^
  3. Encyclopaedia of Contemporary French Culture Routledge, 11 March 2002, retrieved 22 November 2014^
  4. Le Parisien (French newspaper) Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 14 December 2014^
  5. LVMH says in talks to buy Le Parisien newspaper Reuters, 2015-05-26, retrieved 2017-12-14^
  6. Pierre L. Horn. Handbook of French Popular Culture Greenwood Publishing Group, 1 January 1991, retrieved 14 December 2014^
  7. Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce SAGE Publications, 24 September 1998, retrieved 3 February 2014^
  8. Adam Smith. Europe's Top Newspapers Campaign, 15 November 2002, retrieved 18 April 2015^
  9. Media Markets and Newspapers SFN Flash, 7 January 2004, retrieved 17 February 2015^
  10. Circulations OJD, retrieved 17 October 2010^
  11. Presse Quotidienne Regionale 2014 OJD, retrieved 21 March 2015^
  12. Couplage Le Parisien + Aujourd'hui en France ACPM, retrieved 2021-05-05^
  13. Le Parisien ACPM^