20 minutes (France)

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20 minutes is a free French newspaper. With 2.8 million or, according to the new ONE survey method from Audipresse , 4.28 million readers, it is the most widely read newspaper in France. 20 minutes is published from Monday to Friday in half- Berlin format (23.8 × 32.2 cm). In 2012, 20 minutes employed almost 100 editorial staff.

history

The newspaper was founded in 2002 in a joint venture between the Norwegian media group Schibsted and SIPA Ouest-France, the publisher of the newspaper Ouest-France . 20 minutes was launched in 2002 with regional editions in the eight largest French cities. In 2010 there were four more regional editions and in 2011, in the “most important strategic initiative of the French press since the launch of free newspapers in 2002”, 20 additional and in 2012 a further eight French cities. From then on, 20 minutes was published in the 40 largest cities in France. Currently (2014) there are 12 regional editions that are distributed in 36 cities.

From 2008 the economic crisis, which according to Mikael Jensen, PDG of the Schibsted Media Groupe, led to a collapse in advertising revenues, especially in the USA, Spain, Italy, Portugal and France, also hit the free newspapers. Schibsted therefore launched a cost reduction program for 2009, mainly related to the activity in Spain.

However, the economic situation continued to deteriorate; the three largest providers of free newspapers in France, alongside 20 minutes Bolloré Média with Direct Matin and TF1 with Metronews , accumulated a loss of EUR 20 million in 2013. Schibsted subsequently offered the two competitors to take over 20 minutes . A merger of the three free newspapers was also up for discussion. In 2016, Schibsted sold its 49.3% share to the Belgian media group Groupe Rossel ; Since then, Rossel has been an equal partner with SIPA Ouest France, which still holds 49.3% of the group's shares.

Website

20 minutes has also been running the 20minutes.fr website since 2007 . With over 6 million unique visitors / month, it is the third largest news portal in France after Le Figaro and Le Monde / Huffington Post . The 20minutes.fr editorial team also operates the E24.fr portal , an economic and financial news portal.

Other newspapers with the names 20 minutes / 20 minutos / 20 minutes

In 2001 Schibsted took a stake in the Spanish company Multiprensa y Más, which published a free newspaper in Madrid and Barcelona . She later took over the company and renamed the newspapers in 20 minutos . From the end of 1999 Schibsted also published free newspapers in Cologne and Zurich under the name 20 Minuten . The Cologne edition was discontinued in mid-2001 - after a fierce defensive battle by the Cologne media - (→  Cologne newspaper war ). After this lost battle for displacement, Schibsted canceled the expansion plans for Germany and Austria. The Zurich edition had Schibsted in 2005 to the Swiss media company Tamedia resign after it had threatened, otherwise on the basis of from the Official Journal Zurich Tagblatt der Stadt emerged Zurich Express , a commuter newspaper under the name Express build. Then Tamedia launched a French edition under the name 20 minutes under its own direction in 2006 and an Italian edition under the name 20 minuti in 2011 together with laRegione .

literature

  • Marc-Christian Ollrog: Displacement or coexistence: France's daily press under the expansion of free newspapers (also diploma thesis, University of Leipzig 2006).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 20 minutes, France. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Annual Report 2011 of the Schibsted Media Groupe. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schibsted.com
  2. ↑ a b 20 minutes, France. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Annual Report 2010 of the Schibsted Media Groupe. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schibsted.com
  3. ^ Press - L'étude "One" d'Audipresse vient de rendre ses results de mesures | In: 20 minutes.fr. March 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ 20 minutes a 10 ans. In: 20minutes.fr. March 23, 2012 (video; 25 s).
  5. ↑ 20 minutes, France. In: Annual Report 2012 of the Schibsted Media Groupe.
  6. ^ Couverture et diffusion. ( Memento of May 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Website of 20 minutes .
  7. ↑ Plan d'économies pour le groupe norvégien Schibsted. In: Le Figaro . November 7, 2008
  8. ↑ Bolloré et TF1 étudient le rachat de "20 Minutes." In: Le Figaro. March 12, 2014.
  9. ↑ Pascal Beucker , Sebastian Sedlmayr, Frank Überall : knocked into the bin. In: taz Cologne . July 12, 2001 (on Pascal Beucker's website).
  10. ↑ The end before the start - no new commuter newspaper "Express" on Monday. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 22, 2003.