tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75164273201020545762012-02-17T16:51:27.850+01:00Blog de réflexion sur les médiaAntoine DE TARLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654993999221832509noreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516427320102054576.post-74652286821271080052012-02-16T15:59:00.002+01:002012-02-16T16:18:20.588+01:00

The Washington Post has set up a new television team that could include more than 20 people and will provide the newspaper's website with several videos every day. The American Huffington Post is doing the same. In France, the news websites include more and more moving pictures. Ouest France, for instance, has equiped its journalists with I phones that allow them to shoot short sequences on

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20 years ago, groupe Hersant kept a domineering position in the French media world although it had already pulled out of radio broadcasting and television. These days, Philippe Hersant is putting the final hand to the sale of his French newspapers, under the combined pressure of his 17 bankers and Siri, the government agency in charge of failing companies.The buyer is Rossel, the Belgian press

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Monday 23 was a big media event: the launching of the French version of the Huffington post. The editor is none other than Anne Sinclair who is both an ex TV anchor woman and the patient wife of Dominique Strauss Kahn. 250 journalists and TV channels from all over the world showed up, mostly attracted, it seems by the marital statute of Ms Sinclair.Still, skeptics wonder what could be the future

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Last Sunday, the ombusman of the Washington Post complained about the numerous blogs and web services that have grown at a frightening speed around the website of the Washington Post. I quite agree. One of the big challenges of 2012 and the following years is the managements of newspapers press rooms. It is obvious that print and web journalists cannot be everywhere and work 24hrs a day. It is

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The Hersant group is close to exhaustion. Its free sheets branch Comareg is bankrupt. Its newspapers are in deep trouble. However endless negociations go on with the banks and a prospective buyer, groupe Rossel. 20 banks are hard to agree, specially in this time of financial crisis. Rossel is willing to move forward but at its conditions, which means a complete reorganization of the newspapers

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A few days ago, Jim Roberts, the editor in charge of Internet in the newsroom of the NYT went to Paris. With a few colleagues, we discussed with him the main topics concerning the Web policy of the Grey Lady.Jim admitted that the conversion of the print journalists to digital reporting was not an easy job and took some time. According to him, no more than 200 out of the 1000 that works in the

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On December 1st and 2nd the specialists of webjournalism met in Metz to discuss the tricky relationship between the Web and the various media, press web sites or pure players.During the debate, there was a sharp contrast between the users of the web and the social networks and the people in charge of press sites who have to manage journalists and check the facts.Professional internauts dream of a

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Last week, the board of Presstalis decided unanimously to keep the delivery of national dailies. So it said no to the offer of the regional newspapers which have already started the home delivery of le Monde and are willing to move further with their very efficient networks.Echoes from the regional newspapers show that they consider the battle is not lost. It is an open secret that the executives

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The collapse of the remaining part of groupe Hersant is a useful reminder of the weaknesses of French media groups. 20 years ago Lagardère and Hersant were still dominating the media scene and TF1 was supposed to become an European leader in the field of television. Later on Jean Marie Colombani decided to build a powerful group around its flagship newspaper le Monde.In 2011 the landscape is very

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Are things improving for the most prestigious French daily? It seems that there is some progress and the worse is not a sure thing anymore. Louis Dreyfus, the CEO is close to winning the battle of the printing. The over staffed printing unit is going to be reduced from 220 to 70 employees as only one press will keep working. The regional newspapers agree to print and deliver the copy for out of

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In the last issue of the New Yorker, Ken Auletta,their Media correspondant looks at the New York Times and its new executive editor, a woman, Jill Abramson. For the "gray lady", probably the best newspaper in the world, and its new boss, the challenge is dramatic. The Internet revolution has totally disrupted the working of the dailies. They have lost part of their advertising income and they

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Arianna Huffington has been around for several days in Paris and on television to promote the French edition of her electronic publication which is a big success in the US. However, one wonders whether the export of the Huff. Post is a smart move for her and for AOL, her new owner. Various polls show that more and more people check the news on the Web, 70% of the internauts according to a recent

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To morrow, Friday 14, the excutives of the Belgian group Rossel and and Groupe Herasant media (GHM), meet to fix an agreement suggested by the Finance Ministry. If it works, a big if, it will mean that Rossel takes in charge the Eastern and Southern dailies of GHM.But is it going to work? There is no guarantee for that. Hersant family is not eager to lose its best publications and keep its

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The concentration of the media is a thankless process. Huge groups are building up ans suddenly vanish into oblivion or suffer heavy losses. Look at News Corp, the Murdoch group. They have suddenly been forced to close down The News of the World, give up any hope of buying all of Sky TV and been under scrutiny of the US Justice department and Rupert Murdoch is 80.Same thing in France. In 1995,

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The news that Bollore was selling his two TV channels to Canal Plus, on September 8, stunned everybody. It was a coup for Bernard Meheut, the CEO of Canal. Thanks to this costly operation, 465 million euros, he is now able to offer his public, two free channels using all the programs broadcast through Canal pay TV. It is a nice complement to an already very successful broadcaster which has five

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On Thursday, Sept. 1st, Bill Nichols, the editor in chief of Politico delivered the opening lecture of the school of Journalism of Sciences-Po. His message was, for me at least, the first ray of hope in the waste land of the news. It is a fact that Politico is a big success story. It started 4 years ago as a web site based in Washington and fully devoted to political news. It employed then 12

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The Summer was not peaceful for le Monde. The newspaper published a controversial fiction about a financial crisis in 2012. This story was written by an ex journalist from the economic daily la Tribune. It raised strong protests from the "Société des rédacteurs du Monde" (SRM) who considered rightly that the text should have been checked by the competent journalists of the newspaper economic

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A big question: in a climate of major financial crisis, what media will suffer most, which ones will keep growing? If you look at the ad figures for the first months of 2011, the answer is obvious. Television is the great winner. Newspapers are in very bad shape. In the US, the Washington Post, for the second quarter, had 12% less in advertising income for print and 16% less on its websites. The

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Things are moving very quickly in the field of communication technology. Take for instance the incredible growth of smartphones. To day 65% of the uses of the Web are still made from computers. In 2015, it will go down to 46% and mobile devices will provide 54%. In 2009, video amounted to 30% of the broadband services. By the end of 2011, it will be 55%. Another interesting figure, on July, the

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Two weeks ago, I wrote in this blog that the Murdoch scandal could lead to the sale of the newspapers of the group. A few days later, rumor spread in the British press that the media lord had hinted he could get rid of his London publications. To day, I still believe that the crisis facing the largest media empire in the world could result in a complete reorganization of the group.However, it is

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What happens after Murdoch? In http://slate.com/, jack Shafer has made many interesting comments. he seems to think that the old man can survive a major crisis that spreads from the UK to the US by firing top executives of News Corp, including his son James. I am not so sure. Rupert has a big handicap, his age. he is 80 and his many ennemies are much younger and very active.In the New York Times,

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The Murdoch scandal which has been going on for the last two weeks has many aspects: the cosy relationship between politicians and the media, the corruption of the British police, the limitless appetite of the public for titillating gossips. However, one point is rarely stressed, the impact of new technologies on the fabric of information, any kind of information.Muckracking press is not new.

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The Summer will be long and hot for the French press. Here are some matters of reflexion for the various actors of this endangered profession.First Presstalis. On July 1st, Lagardère dropped out of this unhappy organization and was replaced by the cooperatives of dailies and magazines. However, the yearly deficit of the firm is close to 20 million € and the press is unable to face such losses.

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The Murdoch affair is absolutely schoking from an ethical point of view and reveals a high level of corruption in the British police and political establishment. However, there is another aspect of this sordid story, it is the impact on the organization and future of the Murdoch Empire. The closing of the News of the World will cost very little to its owners. According to the New York Times, the

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Last Sunday, the New York Times presented its new supplement that replaces the week in review. It is focused on opinions and long papers aiming at explaining the current news. It seems that this new presentation is fairly successful, as people are looking for an assessment of the plethoric informations that reach their computers or their smartphones.In a way, the gray lady is trying to make for

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Bernard Marchant is a probably the best newspaper manager in France. Unfortunately, he is Belgian. His success as owner of both the Brussels Le Soir and the French La Voix du Nord, is striking if you compare him to his colleagues of France's regional newspapers. He is both a pragmatist and a very active businessman who believes in the future of newspapers if they are well managed and have a user

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Beeing the adviser of the societe des redacteurs du Monde, the organization of the famous newspaper's journalists, I attended yesterday their annual meeting. The climate was not good. 35 journalists are leaving after the takeover by the new owners. Only seven have been replaced as of yesterday. The figures of avertising and circulation are going South. The printers union or, rather the two

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When the press was allowed to look through the 25000 e-mails exchanged by Sarah Palin when she was governor of Alaska, the newspapers faced a quandary: this piece of news was fascinating but hard to exploit with the reduced staff of the most prestigious dailies. The Washington Post, like some of its colleagues, decided to ask for volunteers to go on their behalf to Anchorage and work on this

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Last week, there was a buzz on the Web about the blog of the syrian lesbian woman who was supposedly arrested by the Syrian police. Fortunately, some Internet detectives relized that nobody had ever had a direct contact with this victim of a police state. We know now that the author of the blog, Mr Mac Gregor is a US citizen from Georgia who said he wanted to attract the attention of the public

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It was announced last week that Aaron Kushner, a Massachussets businessman who made a fortune through Internet, was willing to buy the Boston Globe group for 200 millions dollars.Just to refresh your memory: the New York Times bought the Boston Globe and its local branches, 15 years ago for 1.4 billion dollars. The powerful New York daily has been trying, for the last two years, to sell it, in

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The last figures from the US show the continuing rise of Internet. According to the Pew center, 46% of the American get their information from the Web against 40% from the paper. Last year, for the first time but not the last Internet attracted more advertising income than the press. No doubt that the same figures will occur in Europe in 2 or 3 years.And yet, there is a lot of food for thought

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When I learnt that The Huffington Post was sold for 315 million dollars, I smelled trouble. As I said in my blog posted on February 15, the many bloggers who have worked for free for years, for the sake of Ariana H. would not appreciate the sale of their contributions. Unfortunately for Ms Huffington, I was right. Some bloggers are starting a legal dispute that could last for a long time. French

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For months, the national and regional dailies have been working on a new organization that could change dramatically their ways of working and drastically improve their economy.Now, the deadline is getting very close indeed. Are we about to start a revolution in printing and delivery? The executives at le Figaro, le Monde or Libération seem to think so. The idea is quite simple: why should they

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I must inform you I have subscribed to the new digital offer of the New York Times. Now, lets see why I jumped into the pit. There are several reasons, good or bad, we'll see later. 1- I am a compulsive user of the web site of the grey lady and obviously, 20 articles for free per month was too limited for my greed of international news, opinions, book reviews and more. 2- The initial offer of the

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The advertising figures released in France and in the US show very clearly the new trends in the economy of the media.According to IREP, 2010 was a good year for the French media. Television income increased by 11%. Internet display rose by 12%. However, things are not so good for the press whose advertising income decreased by 1.6. The magazines fared quite well (+4.7) but the national dailies

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For the first time, major events occur in the world at a time when a great part of the world population is connected to the Web and its social networks through computers and mobiles, smartphones and tablets. The last great upheaval that happened in 1989 seems ages away. At that time, people got mainly informed through television, newspapers and newsmagazines. Today, they follow the Arab revolts

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Le Monde is facing a new stage of its long story as its managers have, at last, to solve the tricky problem of its printing. The present unit is obsolete and overstaffed. Ideally, it should be closed down and the newspaper could be printed anywhere. Le Figaro with its brand new printing unit at Le Tremblay is willing to do the job. Moreover, regional newspapers have large capacities to print the

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I have already mentionned the seminal book from Evgueny Morozov on the "Internet Delusion". His focus is the complex relationship between Internet and Democracy and he shows, very convincingly, that the Web is just an instrument that can be used for or against freedom of speech.The same delusion exists when I look at the interaction between Internet and Information. In the last issue of hishttp:/

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Recent books and events give us a lot of food for thought. Everything is moving at a tremendous speed. The obvious becomes dated or totally wrong. Internet is very far from a mature human activity but is it really human anymore ? Some examples.A shattering book, just published in the US and already very commented by the media buzz: "The net delusion" from a young whiz kid, born in Belarus but

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Newspapers and magazines are not only concerned by the crisis of Presstalis. They also have to find the best solutions for the delivery of their electronic products. At the beginning, in the nineties, things were quite simple. The papers just needed to open a website where they would transfer most of their content, hoping for the public to rush and read their stuff on their computers.

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The brownian movement of the media executives that has occured during the last two months, is very worrying, according to one of my friend journalists who has been following the scene for many years.Why that worry? According to him, it shows the deep crisis of the traditional media who try desperately to find new men or women to solve problems which are due to structural change. It also increases

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The selection committee chaired by Pierre Bergé has delivered his decision yesterday. Erik Izralewicz is picked up to be the next publisher of le Monde if he gets a 60% approval from the journalists. This choice is very fortunate. E I is a talented journalist with a wide experience earned at le Monde but also as editor in chief of les Echos and la Tribune. The other 12 candidates were obviously

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To day's New York Times website explains why the magazines applications on the I-Pad don't work. The main reason is that Apple doesn't allow magazines to offer yearly subscriptions on the tablet. If you want to read the New Yorker, you must buy each issue at a price hardly lower than the paper copy. Moreover, Apple refuses to give informations on the buyers. This schedule is most unusual for

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The long painful process of choosing a new publisher for le Monde is on its way. 12 candidates have showed up. Only 3 or 4 can be considered as serious. The owners have made it clear that they want to put in charge somebody who is young, around 40 and dynamic. However, they have to find an agreement with the association of journalists (SRM). And, I may add that there are not so many people in

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According to various informations, the lengthy and painful process of nomination of a publisher for le Monde, starts this week. The number of inside and outside candidates is close to ten. And yet, nobody can tell whether this nomination will put an end to the troubles of the famous newspaper. In fact, the new publisher will have to face a permanent conflict which could turn into a war of

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Last week, I wrote in this chronicle that the I-Pad was not the eldorado expected by the print industry. I did not expect to get a confirmation so quickly. Yesterday, two articles publishedbyhttp://www.numerama;com/magazines and http://www.mondaynote.com that both gave the figures of subscriptions of US magazines on I-Pad, showed that these subscriptions were a failure. Take for instance Wired,

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No doubt, 2011 will be an eventful year for the media and specially the print industry. Lets try to review a list of cases and suggest some ideas for the coming months.Presstalis The outlook is dark for the main French delivery system of magazines and national dailies. The union is still fighting a rearguard battle on the closing down of the Paris delivery center that loses 24 million euros a

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What's happening at le Monde? For many observers, there is only one answer: its a mess. The 3 new shareholders are hard to talk to and rarely meet so that nobody knows what is on their mind. Xavier Niel made a disastrous attempt to overlook the working of the daily through an old mate of him; Mr Boukobza. This fellow arrived directly from Israel to check on an activity he knows nothing about and

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A lot of gossip went through the media during the 3 months period of negociations about the sale of le Parisien.Now the sale offer has been pulled out, people begin to speak and it appears that the most discreet candidate was also the most anxious to buy. His name is Vincent Bolloré, the new media tycoon, owner of 2 Tv channels, Havas and the free sheet Direct Matin. Yet, Bolloré, a savy

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le Monde, le ParisienWhat's happening with the two sensitive dossiers of the newspaper industry?Le Monde is still in a phase of interrogations. Last week, the closing proceedings were deeply disturbed by the action of the Spanish media group Prisa which refused to be diluted by the 3 new holders of the daily. Prisa wanted to be nothing else than the unsollicited fourth partner, part of the

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Cevipof, a research center on French politics connected to Sciences Po and the school of journalism organized on Monday October 25 a fascinating debate on journalism and public opinion. The 3 speakers, Jean François Fogel, Dominique Reynié and Geraldine Muhlman are academics who have done a lot of research on these topics.What is the relationship between journalism and public opinion? In a famous

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The New York Times and the Figaro group have just published their financial results. Both show uneven figures for the print and promising increases in digital activities that amount to 20% of the income of the Figaro with an increase of 40% of Internet ads in 2010. The Times has reduced its losses for the third term of the year but the circulation of the print newspaper is going down by 4%.

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Are we getting close to a solution for le Parisien? Here, there are two schools of thought.Some argue that the withdrawal of Dassault whose whole staff apart from Mougeotte, the Figaro editor, was hostile to the takeover, deprives Amaury, the owner, of any possibility to negociate. There remains only one candidate, Groupe Rossel and Capital fund which is not the best way to improve the selling

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On October 13 the annual party of the regional newspapers association (SPQR) was, as usual the great gathering of the powers that be in media and politics. Contrary to his predecessor Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy did not show up but the prime minister, François Fillon and a dozen of members of the Government did the trip to Cercle Interallié and discussed with the barons of the regional

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The announcement of the sale by Spir of 50% of leboncoin.fr to its partner, Schibsted, came as a surprise. It was even more so if one considers the amount of the sale: 200 million euros which means that the site of free ads founded 4 years ago, has a value of 400 millions. If you remember that the Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France, with a circulation of about 480 000 copies could be sold for 100

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It is common knowledge that President Sarkozy will never let the Parisien fall into hostile hands. It is the reason why I never believed in a foreign solution. The fall of David Montgomery, chairman of the press group Mecom makes it even more unlikely. Montgomery has always been interested by French newspapers, considering probably that their poor management left a lot of opportunities for

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For the time beeing, the sales of books have not really suffered from the competition of the electronic delivery systems. In Europe as in America, the figures for 2009 don't show a sharp decrease. E-books are still a limited offer and, fortunately, piracy has not reached the scale of video or music. Still, I would like to try to look forward. What will happen next year or, a bit further, lets say

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As september goes on, so do the two big summer dossiers of le Monde and le Parisien. The 3 shareholders of le Monde are getting close to the final deal that should take place by October 15. Now they have a good look at the management of the daily and the best ways to improve it. It seems that Xavier Niel is getting involved in a process that would downsize the bloated printing unit and reduce

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Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU, delivered yesterday the master class at the school of journalism of Sciences Po.His opening statement was both thoughtful and provocative:"The way you imagine the users of journalism means the way you are a useful journalist". Then he stressed the fact that we assist to a breaking up of the mass media with a shift in power. It is the end of mass audience

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In a previous blog, I was wondering if a press mogul would be tempted by Le Parisien which Amaury put on sale last June. It seems that the new French media tycoon, Vincent Bolloré is tempted to move as he said recently in a Figaro interview. What could be his reasons? The synergy between his free sheets Direct Plus and the regional daily are not so obvious. The buying of the printing unit of

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What does it mean for a news website to have such and such audience? Now, you can use many different sites and applications to consult a pure player or a newspaper. You can use Google or go directly to le Monde or the New York Times or click on a word that interests you. You can even pick up bits of video on Facebook or Dailymotion or instant comments on Twitter. Each time you catch some

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The Washington Post is one of the best American newspapers and is based in the capital of the American Empire. Its fate is of common interest for the press believers who survive through the new Internet era.A book and the figures of the first six months of 2010 tell us what is in store for the prestigious Graham family daily.The book is "Morning miracle, Inside the Washington Post" by David

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In France, the end of August carries many new nominations and strategic decisions fed by a very long Summer holiday.The new chairman of the public TV broadcaster, Rémy Pfimlin is setting up his staff. Nobody was surprised by the departure of Arlette Chabot,the head of the News department. Sarkozy, following a long tradition of government interference wanted her dismissal. A change of chairman was

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The population of the Web is moving at a terrific speed. Thanks to www.audienceLemag.com, managed by Mediametrie, you get interesting figures on the French users in 2010.For instance, last March, 74% of the visitors went to community websites, including, 58% on Facebook which is dominating, for the moment, the French market. The trade websites are also very successful (25 million buyers between

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For a neophyte, publishing electronic books offers golden opportunities to publishers. They save on paper, printing costs, distribution. The profit should be maximum, the expenses, minimal.However, in real life, things look a bit different. The transfer to an electronic format is costly. E-books sell at a much lower price then print books: between 25 and 40% less and yet, authors want to keep

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A few months ago, the New Yorker published a long essay titled "publish or perish". It meant to describe, rather successfully, the complex situation of publishers facing, long after recorded music, movies and print newspapers, the challenge of the digital age. The big question is about e-books. Who is going to distribute them? Who is going to read them, on what machines ? What is going to happen

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Don't be surprised. The financial results of the main media groups for the first six months of 2010 are good and some times very good. Much much better than 2009 when banks went bankrupt and advertising was crashing to the ground. In the US, even the Times turned a nice profit and News Corp recovered, thanks to Fox movies and broadcast. In Germany, Bertelsmann and Springer are back to the profits

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A dream come true. Journalists work for free and the news websites can use huge teams devoted to any kind of investigation and do as well as print newspapers. A dream or a nightmare? Every time people on the web have tried to use bloggers and all kinds of free contribution, the result has been disastrous. Biased and unverified informations, falsified pictures or videos have filled the gap. The 3

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The OJD internet, the French system that provides the audience of the web sites connected to the media has just published the figures for July. A brief look at the results is most interesting and quite sobering. Who is the number one? Is it a site linked to an important broadcaster or a prominent newspaper? Forget it. The winner is leboncoin.fr, the French equivalent of Craigslist, set up by the

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When Rupert Murdoch decided, 4 years ago, to buy for 5 billions dollars the Wall Street Journal, his sons and deputies thought that the old man had gone mad. Why spend so much money in old fashioned newspapers while Internet and electronic media are so promising ? In fact, according to his biographer, Murdoch wanted to fulfill his long time dream, to own a top American daily, either the Wall

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During this month of July, the Washington Post published an exhaustive study on the gigantic and costly intelligence establishment which has been built up by the Bush administration since September 2001. This superb journalistic work, managed during several months by the star journalist Dana Priest, was delivered on Summer which is normal in the States. I ask you : can you remember any in depth

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Newsweek and le Monde, the famous American weekly and the prestigious French daily seem to follow the same awkward path toward a dubious recovery. Both publications have been losing huge amounts of money these last few years: 30 millions dollars in 2009 for Newsweek, more than 100 million euros for le Monde, these last 5 years. Both of them are bought off by wealthy investors who are totally

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Cet été, Newsweek et le Monde suivent des parcours parallèles. Ce sont deux titres fortement déficitaires depuis plusieurs années qui viennent de bénéficier d'une reprise par de riches investisseurs qui n'ont aucune expérience de la presse. Dans sa chronique de Slate.com , Jack Shafer conseille au repreneur de Newsweek de faire preuve de patience, d'accepter de perdre beaucoup d'argent avant

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Une des conclusions des états généraux de la presse écrite était la nécessité de réorganiser complètement le secteur de l'imprimerie. Les études menées dans le cadre des EGPE ont montré que le surcoût des imprimeries françaises était lié à leur productivité insuffisante, c'est à dire à leurs effectifs trop élevés. Le chantier a été ouvert notamment pour le Figaro et le groupe Amaury mais il a

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On s'imagine souvent que l'information est un moteur décisif d'Internet et qu'il va en être de même pour les applications sur les smartphones. La réalité est très diffèrente. Comme l'a souligné Frédéric Filloux dans sa Monday Note, les sites d'information liés aux medias représentent une faible part du trafic sur le Web: pas plus de 5%. Ce qui domine, ce sont les sites de transaction commerciale

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Presstalis, qui a remplacé les NMPP vient de recevoir un nouveau directeur général, Anne Marie Couderc, un vétéran du groupe Lagardère. Parviendra-t-elle à sauver une maison qui, au printemps était au bord de la cessation de paiement et a été sauvée par une action combinée de l'Etat, Lagardère et les éditeurs de presse?L'enjeu est important. C'est la distribution en Kiosque des quotidiens

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__Il y a vingt cinq ans, l’historien anglo-américain Paul Kennedy publiait un livre sur l’essor et la décadence des grandes puissances qui déclencha un vaste débat aux Etats-Unis. Même si l’auteur se gardait de centrer son ouvrage sur l’empire américain, beaucoup d’historiens et de journalistes y virent une analyse du déclin de ce pays, à une époque, le milieu des années 80 où la guerre froide

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la mise en vente de Newsweek par le Washington Post a mis en émoi la presse américaine. Cet hebdomadaire comparable à l'Express en France a longtemps bénéficié d'un prestige considérable aux Etats Unis et dans le monde grâce à ses éditions internationales. Toutefois, sa diffusion de plus de 3 millions d'exemplaires n'a pas suffit à le sauver. Deux raisons justifient la décision de vente: d'une

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Quotidiens. La bataille des contenus d'étéEn juillet et août, on assiste à un phénomène spécifique à la France. Les quotidiens nationaux tels que le Monde, le Figaro ou les Echos multiplient les chroniques, les feuilletons, voire les bandes dessinées tandis que l'information proprement dite se réduit comme une peau de chagrin.Quand on fait observer aux responsables de ces titres que l'actualité

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C'est pendant cet été 2010 que les principaux groupes de presse français vont devoir affiner leur gouvernance et leur stratégie s'ils ne veulent pas devenir l'objet de transactions internationales pilotées par les banques de la place telles que Rothschild ou Paribas.Il est notoire que des groupes allemands comme Springer ou des fonds britanniques comme Mecom regardent de près ce marché vulnérable

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L'été va être difficile pour la presse quotidienne. Le Monde poursuit son opération de recapitalisation avec deux grandes inconnues: est ce que les trois repreneurs, Bergé, Pigasse et Niel parviendront à s'entendre pour mener à bien les réformes nécessaires et est ce que les repreneurs et la direction actuelle trouveront rapidement une solution pour l'imprimerie du journal à la fois à bout de

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La presse gratuite d'information affiche des résultats remarquables en terme d'audience. 20 Minutes et Metro ont bénéficié d'un fort accroissement d'audience et se placent désormais en tête de la presse quotidienne. Il convient c ependant d'apprécier avec prudence cette performance. Aujourd'hui, aucun des trois gratuits, y compris le dernier né, Matin Plus n'a atteint un équilibre financier. On

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Introduction : comment est né ce nouveau media.L’information sur Internet est l’appropriation inattendue d’un instrument qui avait d’autres objectifs.C’est le seul système de communication qui se soit développé en France sans initiative de l’Etat d’où son caractère décentralisé et parfois anarchique.Chapitre Premier : Internet complément naturel du papier.Utilisation des mêmes matériaux : textes

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