The economic newspaper La Tribune, recently bought by the shipowner CMA CGM of billionaire Rodolphe Saadé, will launch a general Sunday edition on October 8.
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The Tribune Sunday will be led by journalist Bruno Jeudy. It will compete with the other two national generalist Sunday newspapers, the JDD, now run by the far-right journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, and the Sunday edition of the daily Le Parisien / Today in France. The fourth national newspaper to be published on Sundays in France is the sports daily L’Équipe. ” We want to be the Sunday daily newspaper, without political color, which brings together all French people “, announced its president, Jean-Christophe Tortora, Sunday at Figaro. Created in 1985, La Tribune is now an exclusively digital weekday newspaper, after having abandoned its daily paper format in 2012 and then weekly in 2020.
This announcement comes as the JDD experienced a 40 day strike between the end of June and the beginning of August after the announcement of the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at his head. Many have seen behind this appointment the hand of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, whose Vivendi group is in the process of swallowing Lagardère, owner of the JDD. Worried that the title will take a sharp turn to the right, many journalists have decided to leave.
The boss of the shipowner CMA CGM, very active in the world of the media
According to Jean-Christophe Tortora, the project of The Tribune Sunday is several months old and has not been set up to compete with the JDD. ” I am not taking advantage of a market opportunity linked to the situation at the JDD, because the discussions around our Sunday daily project were initiated with Rodolphe Saadé in February “, he assured.
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This launch is further proof of Rodolphe Saadé’s ambitions in the media sector, where he is very active. Based in Marseilles, the powerful shipowner CMA CGM, which he heads, took control of La Tribune at the end of May through the takeover of the HIMA group of Jean-Christophe Tortora.
In October, CMA CGM, which recorded a record net profit of more than 23 billion euros in 2022, had already become the owner of the La Provence group, the regional daily newspapers Provence And Corsica Morning. He then invited himself, at the end of 2022, to the capital of the audiovisual group M6, then, at the beginning of April, to that of the online video media Brut.
(With AFP)