L'Express
| L'Express | |
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| description | newsmagazine |
| language | French |
| publishing company | Mag & NewsCo ( France ) |
| First edition | May 16, 1953 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Web link | lexpress.fr |
| ISSN |
0014-5270 |
L'Express is one of the oldest and highest-circulation French news magazines . The weekly magazine for general and political information, which has existed since mid-May 1953, was founded and financed by the journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924-2006).
history
L'Express initially supported the moderate left, in this case Pierre Mendès France . Due to its anti-colonialist stance, the magazine was hostile to the French policy on Algeria and, from 1954 onwards, was the only one to criticize the oppression and torture practiced by parts of the army in Algeria. In 1958, the paper opposed Charles de Gaulle and supported Gaston Defferre's candidacy , socialist mayor of Marseille , for the presidential election .
Well-known authors such as Albert Camus , André Malraux , François Mauriac and Jean-Paul Sartre also wrote for the Express.
When the circulation sank from 200,000 to 125,000 copies between 1962 and 1964, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (JJSS) decided to convert the magazine into a news magazine based on the model of the American TIME and the German Der Spiegel : format and layout were changed, Number of pages and advertising space increased. L'Express became more widespread with the changeover to the weekly magazine format. In 1965, an average of 250,000 copies per issue were sold.
In 1970 JJSS became general secretary of the PRRRS ( Parti radical ) and largely gave up his obligations at L'Express. His desire for further support for his political ambitions through the weekly magazine conjured up a conflict situation. His brother Jean-Louis gave up his post as director and sold his shares; Claude Imbert left and founded Le Point , a rival paper.
In 1977 JJSS ceded 45 percent of the capital of L'Express to the financier Jimmy Goldsmith, who changed the editorial direction of the paper. The market share among weekly magazines was 14.9% in 1988, the orientation was (according to the assessment in the literature) politically right. Several changes in the editorial team had meanwhile damaged the magazine's image; Multiple changes of ownership, combined with repeated attempts to determine the editorial direction, created a conflict-prone and confusing situation. These conflicts culminated in 1994 with the dismissal of editor-in-chief Yann de L'Écotais .
Since 2000
In 2004, Serge Dassault became head of the Socpress Group, which includes L'Express and L'Expansion . In 2006 the Belgian Roularta Media Group bought Express-Expension Verlag. Since 2015 the magazine has been majority owned by Patrick Drahi , who also owns a conglomerate in the telecommunications sector.
Other news magazines
Web links
- lexpress.fr - Homepage (French)
Footnotes
- ^ Douglas Johnson: Obituary: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. In: theguardian.com. August 11, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .
- ^ Peter Humphreys: Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe. Manchester University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-719-03197-7 , p. 88 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Patrick Drahi - Parvenu in a shopping frenzy. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 25, 2015, accessed January 15, 2017 .