Le Journal du Dimanche

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Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) is a French Sunday newspaper.

JDD was founded in 1948 by Pierre Lazareff as the Sunday edition of the daily newspaper France Soir and has been run as an independent weekly magazine since 1976 with 52 editions per year. The paper is divided into the topics of news, sport, culture and (since 1999) business and has been published since September 1999 with a special issue on Paris. In 2005, JDD had a circulation of 263,208 copies sold with a reach of 1,151,000 readers.

JDD is owned with a majority share of 60% by the French publishing group Hachette Filipacchi Médias (HFM), a subsidiary of the Lagardère SCA group , the remaining 40% is held by the press group Socpresse , which is controlled by Serge Dassault .

Head was u. a. from 1999 to December 2005 Jean-Claude Maurice, who was replaced by Jacques Espérandieux (formerly with Le Parisien) in December 2005.

In 2007, the paper became known through the censorship of an article about Nicolas Sarkozy's then wife , Cécilia Sarkozy, who did not vote in the second round of the presidential election. Arnaud Lagardère, the main owner, is said to have intervened here by telephone in favor of Nicolas Sarkozy. The following year, Jacques Espérandieux was replaced by Christian de Villeneuve.

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