L'Opinion (France)

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L'Opinion
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description French newspaper
language French
publishing company Bey Medias ( France )
Headquarters Paris
First edition May 15, 2013
founder Nicolas Beytout
Frequency of publication daily Monday to Friday
Sold edition 37,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Nicolas Beytout
editor Nicolas Beytout
Web link lopinion.fr
ISSN (print) 2266-9922
ISSN (online) 2267-1935

L'Opinion (  [ ˈlɔpiˌnjɔ̃ ] , in German: the opinion ) is a French daily newspaper that has been published Monday to Friday since 2013 in print and online on its own website and app for the mobile platforms. The newspaper also operates the O'play video channel on the Facebook social network . Please click to listen!Play

history

L'Opinion was founded on May 15, 2013 by French journalist and media manager Nicolas Beytout, who was previously editor-in-chief of Le Figaro and Les Échos . It was the first newspaper to be launched in France since InfoMatin , which appeared from 1994 to 1996.

The paper describes its content orientation as “liberal, business-friendly, European” (French: libérale, pro-business, européenne ). The newspaper, which appears in the Berlin format with eight to twelve set pages , primarily provides detailed background articles and comments that classify political and economic events from a French perspective. There are no other sections or reports. According to the assessment of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the target group of the paper is “entrepreneurs, higher cadres, middle-class employees, craftsmen and traders”, who belong to the French conservatives in the tradition of the former President Sarkozy , whose circle of friends also includes Beytout. The model was Politico , founded in 2007 by former Washington Post journalists .

The funders of the project were unclear from the start. The carrier is the Bey Medias holding , whose main shareholder is Beytout. The legal form is a stock corporation under French law with start-up capital of 10 to 15 million euros, which is said to come from fifteen investors, including Bernard Arnault from the luxury goods group LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton . On November 23, 2018, a decision was made to increase the capital by 10 million euros. In January 2019, research by the investigative media portal Mediapart came to the result that the US billionaire Kenneth Fisher had invested 2.5 million euros in the newspaper. In addition, the Bettencourt ( L'Oréal ), Houzé / Moulin ( Galeries Lafayette ), Descours ( Piper-Heidsieck ), Savare ( Oberthur Technologies ), Bich ( BIC Group ) families and others are involved in the company.

When it was launched, a print run of 50,000 had been envisaged. Verifiable information on this was not available in mid-2019. The Federal Agency for Civic Education speaks of a circulation of 37,000 copies in 2014. The Alliance pour les Chiffres de la Presse et des Médias reported two million visitors in April 2019 for the website lopinion.fr only.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b L'Opinion. In: Eurotopics. Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on June 6, 2019 (information on the edition in 2014).
  2. ^ A b c Marc Zitzmann: A «naked» daily newspaper for France. “L'Opinion” competes with the established papers with a slim model . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 21, 2013, p. 48 (online under the title: «L'Opinion» tries to merge print and web ).
  3. ↑ “L'Opinion” is devoted to opinion journalism. France with a new daily newspaper . In: Wiener Zeitung . May 17, 2013, p. 31 .
  4. ↑ Qui sommes nous? In: lopinion.fr. L'Opinion, 2013, accessed June 6, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Balmer: With courage and a lot of opinion . In: The press . May 26, 2013, p. 53 ( diepresse.com ).
  6. ↑ Xavier Ternisien: Les investisseurs mystères de "L'Opinion" . In: Le Monde . May 13, 2013 ( lemonde.fr [accessed June 6, 2019]).
  7. ^ Laurent Mauduit: "L'Opinion", le journal des milliardaires. In: Mediapart. Retrieved June 6, 2019 (French).
  8. ^ Grandes Familles: Les milliardaires de "L'Opinion". In: liberation.fr. Libération.fr, accessed June 6, 2019 (French).
  9. ^ Alexandre Berteau: Un financier américain au capital de "L'Opinion" . In: Le Mode . January 23, 2019 ( lemonde.fr [accessed June 6, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Site LOpinion.fr. Alliance pour les Chiffres de la Presse et des Médias, accessed on June 6, 2019 (French).