Rue89 to launch Quebec89 in October
Posted by Emma Heald on September 7, 2009 at 2:20 PM
French news site Rue89 will launch a site in Quebec in October, Quebec89.com, in partnership with information portal Branchez-vous.com (roughly translated as 'get connected), reported Les Echos.
Three young freelance journalists will provide Quebec-based news, and manage other collaborators, according to Quebec89.com, and the rest of the content will be supplied by Rue89. Rue89 is an online-only news site launched in May 2007 by a group of former Liberation journalists, and combines amateur contributions with professional editing.
The Quebecois site will be more locally focused than its parent site, and will have various other structural differences. It will concentrate on three areas: politics, media and society. Rue89 has been successful so far, raising money through advertising, reader donations and offering services such as website design, and already has one local section, Marseille89, and an economics section, Eco89.
As newspapers suffer, such as the biggest Canadian French-language daily La Presse which is currently under threat of closure, it could well be the time for low-cost online only sites such as Quebec89 to thrive.
Source: Les Echos
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