Le Point

Le Point is a French political weekly magazine. His presentation is similar to that of the American magazines Time and Newsweek. The journal is open to diverse opinions, analysis and interviews, but is generally regarded as rather bourgeois- conservative.

The editor, Franz -Olivier Giesbert, editor in chief was previously at Nouvel Observateur, and then when Figaro.

  • 3.1 Imprint
  • 3.2 Known employees, past and present

History

Foundation

Le Point was founded in 1972 by a group of journalists who had previously left the editorial of L' Express in the year, which was then headed by Jean -Jacques Servan-Schreiber.

Among the founders Olivier Chevrillon were as Director General and the journalists Claude Imbert, Jacques Duquesne, Pierre Billard, Georges Suffert, Henri Trinchet, Robert Franc, as a marketing and advertising manager Philippe and Michel Ramond Bracciali as a manager. Thanks to financial commitment of the Hachette Group, this team was able to solicit the spring of 1972 a number of prominent journalists from the great Parisian press organs.

The sheet set from the beginning to the concept of a weekly magazine like Newsweek and Time Magazine.

Changing Ownership

After the victory of the left in the presidential election of 1981, the newspaper Groupe Hachette left for fear they would nationalized and the editors would lose their independence. Le Point joined the theater company Gaumont, which was led by Nicolas Seydoux. 1992 Seydoux sold his shares in the Générale Occidentale. Their parent company, the group Alcatel -Alsthom, already had the magazine L'Express. This connection led to L' Express and Le Point formed a community display.

Alcatel -Alsthom in turn contract in October 1995, its press division to CEP communication, a subsidiary of Havas Group, whose main shareholder in turn, Alcatel -Alsthom was.

In 1997, the businessman François Pinault, Director General of Artemis Holding and politically Jacques Chirac assumed to be related Le Point.

Important Dates

  • September 22, 1975: Le Point reached the breakeven point and has 150 employees.
  • February 25, 1982: The Gaumont Group sold 51 % stake in Hachette Livre.
  • December 1985: After the departure of Olivier Chevrillon was Jacques Duquesne, previously deputy editorial director, general manager of Le Point.
  • September 1992: The Générale Occidentale acquired 40 % stake.
  • September 1992: The Générale Occidentale became the majority shareholder.
  • January 22, 1994: Le Point lowered the selling price and presented itself in a new look: wider format, new layout and new logo.
  • January 29, 1994: The first special edition for a special target groups appeared: Grandes écoles et universités Le Point ( Le Point for universities ).
  • October 1995: In partnership with BusinessWeek an economic issue appeared.
  • December 1997: The Artemis Holding under François Pinault joined the company as majority shareholder.
  • September 2000: Franz -Olivier Giesbert was director of Le Point. Claude Imbert was still editor.
  • January 2001: Re- transformation of size, layout and logo.
  • December 2009: The 33 -year-old Etienne Gernelle was appointed editor in chief.

Widespread total circulation

Source: Audited circulation figures of the Office de Justification de la Diffusion, Booth 2009.

Employee

Imprint

In contrast to the usual practices Le Point published for some years his imprint only sporadically.

Known employees, past and present

  • Claude Allègre,
  • Jacques- Pierre Amette
  • Raymond Aron
  • Jean -Paul Enthoven
  • Bernard- Henri Lévy
  • Jacques Marseille.
  • Jean d' Ormesson
  • Georges Perec
  • Jean -François Revel
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