L'Express (France)
L' Express is one of the oldest and most widely read French news magazines. The 1953 existing since mid-May weekly magazine on general and political information was derived from the known left-wing intellectual journalist Jean -Jacques Servan- Schreiber ( " JJSS " ) founded the stood a young and dynamic editing with Françoise Giroud, inter alia, to the side. Servan-Schreiber wanted to launch a magazine life, engaged in political life which took part, but it did not exist until then in France. The company was financed by the family Servan-Schreiber.
History
L' Express initially supported the moderate left, in this case, Pierre Mendès -France. Due to its anti-colonial stance, the magazine of the French Algerian policy was hostile to and criticized in 1954 as the only practiced by elements of the army in Algeria suppression and the associated methods of torture. In 1958, the leaf set against Charles de Gaulle and supported the candidacy Gaston Defferres, the socialist mayor of Marseilles to the presidential election.
Also known writers such as Albert Camus, André Malraux, François Mauriac and Jean -Paul Sartre could be obtained as an employee.
But when the edition 1962-1964 plummeted from 200,000 to 125,000 copies, Jean -Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the magazine decided in a news magazine modeled after the American and the German Der Spiegel TIME convert; Format and layout have been changed, enlarged number of pages and advertising space. The magazine was trying to avoid the Ideological and offered objectively neutral as possible information. This one had success very soon - with readers and advertisers - and L' Express 1964 for information magazine number 1 in France. This was a growing spread and became a mirror image of French society. 1965 sales amounted again to 250,000 copies.
In 1970, Jean -Jacques Servan-Schreiber General Secretary of the Radical Socialist Party ( Parti Radical ) and were largely its obligations in L' Express on. His desire to further support his political ambitions by the weekly magazine conjured up a conflict situation. His brother Jean -Louis gave up his directorship and sold his shares; Claude Imbert, who had always advocated the greatest possible neutrality, resigned and founded Le Point, a rival newspaper. Some of the journalists, who wanted no political paternalism, also left the magazine.
1977 joined Jean -Jacques Servan-Schreiber from 45 percent of the capital of L' Express to the financier Jimmy Goldsmith, who changed the editorial line of the paper. Successive changes in the newsroom had now damaged the image of the magazine; several ownership changes, coupled with repeated attempts to determine the editorial focus, created a conflict-prone and complex situation up. These conflicts culminated in 1994 in the dismissal of the chief editor Yann de L' Écotais.
Today
Serge Dassault in 2004 came at the top of Group Socpress belong to the L' Express and L'Expansion; thus the independence of the editorial staff should be increased by the constant back and forth of previous years. However, Dassault tried to influence the political orientation. In 2006, the Belgian Roularta Media Group purchased the Express - Expension publisher.
Other news magazines
- Marianne ( news magazine )
- Le Nouvel Observateur
- Le Point