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As announced on November 14th, the former editorial head of the French daily, Le Monde, Edwy Plenel launched an experimental news website whose final version should be available at the beginning of 2008. 

Nicolas Beytout, who was editor of the Figaro for three years, is readying to head LVMH’s media division, the DI Group. In an interview with Le Monde, he shows himself reassuring towards the employees of Les Echos, recently acquired by LVMH.

Etienne Mougeotte, editorial head of Figaro magazine since September 2007, should be appointed head of the Figaro group’s newsrooms on Nov. 20.  This move follows the recent appointment of Nicolas Beytout, currently editor of Le Figaro, as head of DI Group, LVMH’s media division. Beytout returns to Les Echos, recently acquired by LVMH, which previously edited.

The former editorial head of the daily Le Monde, Edwy Plenel, hopes to raise 4 million euros to launch a news site in the beginning of 2008.

For many major dailies, the current trend of newsroom integration seems like a natural evolution nowadays. The Editors Weblog has regularly showcased best examples of newsroom integration and has advocated that papers follow the trend. Yet many, if not most, newspapers continue to function well while keeping a non-integrated organization. So the question is: do papers have to integrate? In this first piece of a three part-series investigating non-integrated newsrooms, the Figaro.fr managers explain to the Weblog how online fits in the group’s strategy.

To editors, captions may seem like they’re just a detail, small-font one-liners complementing pictures, to be checked at the last minute. Yet at the same time, captions “are the little extra that draws the attention of the reader and make him or her continue to read…or not,” reports Le Monde.

Launched two weeks ago, LePost.fr is not your typical online-only news site. With a resolutely ‘new media’ approach to news, the website fearlessly tackles new trends in news consumption, and caters to a younger public generally perceived as having deserted the arena. Its editorial content and processes have been adapted to this aim, which can also be seen as a traditional media publisher’s attempt to experiment with the future of online news.

In the wake of Rupert Murdoch’s $5.6 billion takeover of Dow Jones, the reactions among the media have been diverse: was it a fatal blow onto a trusted news organization’s credibility, a profitable deal in a struggling industry, a conventional business move that won’t affect the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) editorial integrity? Most probably, a little of all of the above. What will become of the Journal’s praised journalism? In addition to international media’s views, the Editors Weblog collected the insight of some top French editors.

‘Le Monde’s’ new compact free paper should be launched starting Dec 11th in the Parisian region, with an initial circulation of 250 000. News Plus is among the first free papers to be launched in reaction to freesheets by a major French newspaper.