This article about the future of the French press was recently published in Le Monde in its Nov. 16th 2006 edition. Since comments can’t be posted by non-members on Le Monde’s website, the following is an extract from the article:
"Everything had started off well: in 1900, France led the world in the distribution of daily newspapers.
Time went by and the rankings changed. The daily French press scores poorly in most European rankings. The Daily Telegraph alone sells more copies than all of the French national news dailies, and France has fewer dailies (81) than Sweden (93), a country with seven times less inhabitants."
Over the past three years, the Swiss Media Group Edipresse has completely changed the internal organization of its publications’ newsrooms. Benoit Raphael, responsible for Internet strategies and editor for the French group Dauphiné Libéré, reported about his recent visit to the headquarters of Lausanne daily “24 heures”, one of Edipresse’s 25 Swiss publications.
Posted by John Burke on September 19, 2006 at 7:28 PM
After being commanded by a Belgian court to remove all French and German-language newspaper content from its Belgian Google News site, Google is counteracting with an appeal. The world's most popular search engine company has agreed to take down all of the cited content instead of paying the daily €1 million fine. But is there enough evidence to uphold the court's original decision?
