List of newspapers in France

Below is a list of newspapers in France.

National

Daily

• La Croix (daily, Catholic/Christian democrat)
• Les Échos (business, economics, daily, right)
• L'Équipe (sports, daily)
• Le Figaro (daily, right-wing)
• L'Humanité (daily, Communist/far-left)
• Libération (daily, left-wing)
• Le Monde (daily, centre-left)
• L'Opinion (daily, liberal)
• Le Parisien / Aujourd'hui en France (daily)

Online newspapers

• France Soir (switched to internet only in 2011, shutdown in 2012, returned online in 2014)
• Mediapart (internet only, investigative journalism)
• La Tribune (switched to internet only since 2012, economics, right-wing)

Free newspapers

• 20 Minutes
• Direct Matin
• Metro

Weekly

• Challenges (economy)
• Charlie Hebdo (satirical news magazine, left-wing)
• Courrier International (translated articles from press worldwide, centre-left)
• Le Canard enchaîné (satirical newspaper, investigative journalism, no specific political views)
• L'Express (centre-right)
• Le Journal du dimanche (news, culture, leisure)
• Le Monde Libertaire (anarcho-communist weekly)
• L'Obs (news magazine, centre-left)
• Le Point (news magazine, right-wing)
• Marianne (news magazine, left-wing)
• Minute (far-right)
• Paris-Match (headline news and celebrity lifestyle features)
• Télérama (culture)
• VSD (news, celebrity and leisure magazine)

Monthly

• Le Monde Diplomatique (left-wing to far-left)

Every four years

• La Bougie du Sapeur (satirical, every February 29)

English-language

• The Connexion
• International New York Times (is based in Paris)
• The Local (online)
• Mediapart (English edition)
• Le Monde Diplomatique (translated edition)
• The Locus (online)^[1]

Regional

• L'Alsace-Le Pays (Alsace)
• Le Berry Républicain (Centre-Val de Loire)
• Le Bien Public (Burgundy)
• Charente Libre (Poitou-Charentes)
• Corse-Matin (Corsica)
• Journal de la Corse (Corsica)
• Le Courrier Picard (Picardy)
• Le Dauphiné Libéré (Dauphiné, Savoy)
• La Dépêche du Midi (Midi-Pyrénées)
• Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (Alsace)
• L'Est Républicain (Franche-Comté, Lorraine)
• L'Indépendant (Languedoc-Roussillon)
• Le Journal de Saône et Loire (Burgundy)
• Le Journal du Centre (Centre)
• Midi Libre (Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées)
• La Montagne (Auvergne)
• Nice-Matin (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
• Nord éclair (Nord-Pas de Calais)
• La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest (Centre, Poitou-Charentes)
• Ouest-France (Brittany, Lower Normandy, Pays de la Loire)
• Paris-Normandie (Normandy)
• Le Parisien (Île-de-France, Oise)
• Presse-Océan (Pays de la Loire)
• Le Progrès (Auvergne, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Rhône-Alpes)
• La Provence (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
• Le Républicain Lorrain (Lorraine)
• La République des Pyrénées (Aquitaine)
• Sud Ouest (Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, Poitou-Charentes)
• Le Télégramme de Brest (Brittany)
• La Voix du Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais)

Former newspapers

• L'Ami du peuple founded by Marat
• La Citoyenne, 1881-1891 (feminist)
• Combat, 1944-1974 (founded during the Resistance, hosted articles by Albert Camus, Sartre, Malraux, etc.)
• Le Journal des débats, 1789-1944 (conservative)
• La Gazette, 1631–1915, first French weekly, founded by Théophraste Renaudot, became the mouthpiece of the Legitimist monarchists
• Le Globe, 1824–1832, founded by the republican and socialist Pierre Leroux, mouthpiece of the Saint-Simonists starting in 1830
• Je suis partout, 1930–1944, far-right newspaper, Collaborationist during Vichy
• Le Journal, 1892-1944
• Le Matin, 1884-1944
• Le National, 1830-1851 (liberal, founded by Adolphe Thiers and Armand Carrel)
• Paris-Soir, 1923-1944
• Le Père Duchesne, 1790-1794 (edited by Jacques Hébert)
• Le Père Duchesne (other newspapers)
• Le Petit Parisien, 1876-1944
• Le Temps, 1861-1942 (compromised by collaboration during Vichy regime, replaced as the newspaper of record by the newly created Le Monde)
• La Voix des Femmes, 1848-1852 (feminist)

See also

• History of French newspapers
• History of newspapers and magazines#France
• Media in France
• Telecommunications in France

References

Further reading

• Blackburn, George M. "Paris Newspapers and the American Civil War." Illinois Historical Journal (1991): 177-193. in JSTOR
• Censer, Jack Richard. Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France (Univ of California Press, 1987)
• Chalaby, Jean K. "Twenty years of contrast: The French and British press during the inter-war period." European Journal of Sociology 37.01 (1996): 143-159. 1919-39
• Collins, Irene. The government and the newspaper press in France, 1814-1881 (Oxford University Press, 1959)
• Collins, Ross F., and E. M. Palmegiano, eds. The Rise of Western Journalism 1815-1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States (2007), Chapter on France by Ross Collins
• Cragin, Thomas J. "The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France." Book History 4.1 (2001): 49-80. online
• Edelstein, Melvin. "La Feuille villageoise, the Revolutionary Press, and the Question of Rural Political Participation." French Historical Studies (1971): 175-203. in JSTOR
• Eisendrath, Charles R. "Politics and Journalism--French Connection." Columbia Journalism Review 18.1 (1979): 58-61
• Freiberg, J. W. The French press: class, state, and ideology (Praeger Publishers, 1981)
• Goldstein, Robert Justin. "Fighting French Censorship, 1815-1881." French Review (1998): 785-796. in JSTOR
• Gough, Hugh. The newspaper press in the French Revolution (Taylor & Francis, 19880
• Isser, Natalie. The Second Empire and the Press: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu (Springer, 1974)
• Kerr, David S. Caricature and French Political Culture 1830-1848: Charles Philipon and the Illustrated Press (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Thogmartin, Clyde. The national daily press of France (Birmingham Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 1998), 370pp
• Trinkle, Dennis A. The Napoleonic press: the public sphere and oppositionary journalism (Edwin Mellen Pr, 2002)
• Weigle, Clifford. "The Paris Press from 1920 to 1940" Journalism Quarterly (1941) 18: 376-84.
• Weigle, Clifford. "The Rise and Fall of the Havas News Agency" Journalism Quarterly (1942) 19:277-86
• Williams, Roger Lawrence. Henri Rochefort, prince of the gutter press (Scribner, 1966)
• Zerner, Elisabeth H. "Rumors in Paris Newspapers," Public Opinion Quarterly (1946) 10#3 pp. 382–391 in JSTOR In summer 1945

External links

• (in English) Regular French Press Review - Radio France International
• Brander Mathews, “Notes on Parisian Newspapers,” The Century 35 (December 1, 1887): 200-12
• “The daily press in France,” compared to the press in the UK, on About-France.com
• English translations of articles from French newspapers at nonprofit WorldMeets.US
• Le Guide Presse : French press directory, index of all French newspapers and magazines