Rue89

Rue89 is an online magazine published by former journalist of the daily newspaper Libération on May 6, 2007 during the second round of the French presidential election campaign, was founded. Similar to media part, it involves a partially ad-supported side, but which is free and accessible for free for the internet users. Since August 2010, a printed monthly output is sold in newsagents.

According to surveys of Mediametrie - NetRatings Rue89 was in September 2008, the tenth of the most used websites in France. According to Spiegel Online has teamed up with media partners and Rue89 a form of on-line publications in the French media landscape emerged which focused on revelation of " scandals ".

History

Rue89 Arnaud Aubron ( Webmaster / Editor) and Michel Levy- Provencal was established in May 2007 by Pierre Haski ( President of the Society Rue89 and Director of Public Relations ), Laurent Mauriac (Managing Director), Pascal Riché ( editor in chief ), was founded. The editorial office is currently 24, rue de l' Est in the 20th arrondissement.

Pascal Riche chose the name " Rue89 " ( = street 89), because it should be a place of meeting and discussion and the number 89 at the Berlin Wall (1989 ), the French Revolution (1789 ) and the emergence of the World Wide Web ( 1989) remember. Since May 14, 2007 Rue89 became increasingly known among the users. They reported the absence of Cecilia Sarkozy during the second round of the presidential election campaign, and the news spread, the weekly newspaper " Le journal du dimanche " have retained the information in the last minute. This created the impression that the French Government had exerted pressure on the press. In suspected was the French Medientychoon Arnaud Lagadere, a close friend of Nicolas Sarkozy.

In September 2007, revealed the side that the consultant Alexis Debat, primarily employed by ABC News and The National Interest, several conversations, including Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates and Kofi Annan, fictitious have.

On 27 June 2008 gave Rue89 increase their capital in the amount of 1.1 million Euro known, which means that the founding majority shareholder with 51.3 % remain at the company's capital. In December 2009, received funding of 249,000 euros Rue89 of the development company for media that is not subordinate to the Prime Minister.

On 1 October 2008, Rue89 the Eco89 page to the network which mainly deals with economic issues. There is also an issue of the magazine for the Canadian province of Quebec and two foreign-language editions, a Spanish-language as well as a version in Japanese.

Since June 2010 there was a monthly printed edition of the most important in the previous month published on the web articles. The print version was discontinued in 2012.

In December 2011, the acquisition by the Nouvel Observateur was announced.