Le Point

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Le Point

description Weekly newspaper
publishing company Artémis
First edition September 25, 1972
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 443,738 copies
Editor-in-chief Sébastien Le Fol
editor Étienne Gernelle
Web link Le Point
ISSN (print) 0242-6005

Le Point is a French weekly political magazine . Its presentation is similar to that of the American magazines Time and Newsweek . The paper is open to diverse opinions, analyzes and interviews; it is generally considered to be bourgeois-conservative.

Its editor, Franz-Olivier Giesbert (* 1949) was previously editor-in-chief at Nouvel Observateur and then at Figaro .

history

founding

Le Point was founded in 1972 by a group of journalists who had left the editorial staff of L'Express the year before , which was then headed by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber .

Among the founders were Olivier Chevrillon as general director and the journalists Claude Imbert , Jacques Duquesne , Pierre Billard , Georges Suffert , Henri Trinchet, Robert Franc, as marketing and advertising director Philippe Ramond and as manager Michel Bracciali. Thanks to the financial commitment of the Hachette Group, this team was able to poach a number of well-known journalists from major Parisian press organs by the spring of 1972.

From the beginning, Le Point relied on the concept of a weekly magazine similar to that of Newsweek and Time Magazine .

Changing ownership

After the victory of the left in the presidential election in 1981 - François Mitterrand was the first politician of the Parti socialiste (PS) to be French President from mid-1981 to mid-1995 - the newspaper left the Groupe Hachette for fear that it would be nationalized and the editorial staff would gain independence to lose. Le Point joined the cinema company Gaumont , which was then led by Nicolas Seydoux . In 1992 Seydoux sold his shares to Générale Occidentale . Its parent company, the Alcatel-Alsthom group , already owned the L'Express magazine . This connection resulted in L'Express and Le Point forming an advertising community .

In October 1995, Alcatel-Alsthom in turn transferred its press division to CEP communication , a subsidiary of the Havas group, of which Alcatel-Alsthom was the main shareholder.

In 1997, businessman François Pinault took over his financial holding Groupe Artémis Le Point .

Important data

  • September 22, 1975: Le Point reached the break-even point and has 150 employees.
  • February 25, 1982: The Gaumont Group sells 51% of the shares in Hachette Livre .
  • December 1985: Following the departure of Olivier Chevrillon, Jacques Duquesne, previously Deputy Editor, becomes General Manager of Le Point .
  • September 1992: Générale Occidentale acquires 40% of the shares.
  • September 1992: Générale Occidentale becomes the majority shareholder.
  • January 22, 1994: Le Point lowers the sales price and presents itself in a new look: wider format, new layout and new logo.
  • January 29, 1994: The first special edition for a particular target group appears: Le Point Grandes écoles et universités ( Le Point for universities).
  • October 1995: A business edition is published in collaboration with Business Week .
  • December 1997: The Artémis holding under François Pinault becomes the majority shareholder.
  • September 2000: Franz-Olivier Giesbert becomes director of Le Point . Claude Imbert is still the editor.
  • January 2001: New redesign of format, layout and logo.
  • December 2009: 33-year-old Étienne Gernelle is appointed editor-in-chief.
  • In February 2012, François Pinault confirmed information from the business magazine Challenges that President Nicolas Sarkozy had asked him (Pinault) to dismiss Giesbert at 'Le Point'.

Widespread total circulation

title 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Le Point 358.909 371.615 391,952 396,633 408.931 443,956 443.738 408,546 412.286 399.291 383,559 364.133

Source: Checked circulation figures of the Office de Justification de la Diffusion , as of 2016;

Employee

imprint

In contrast to the usual practice, Le Point has only published its imprint sporadically for several years (as of 2009).

Known employees in the past and present

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotation: C'est à moi que Nicolas Sarkozy s'adressait pour me demander régulièrement de virer Franz-Olivier Giesbert de la direction du 'Point'; Pinault publicly rejected this request. ("François Pinault: la vie après la vie", in: Challenges , issue 287, February 9, 2012, p. 51)