Global news organisations agree to share climate change content
The Guardian, El País, Le Monde and China Daily are among 25 publishers aiming to raise awareness in the runup to the next UN summitAn unprecedented alliance of news publishers including the Guardian,...
View ArticleLe Monde elects Jerome Fenoglio as new editorial director
French daily’s second-in-command to serve six-year term after winning more than 68% of the staff voteJerome Fenoglio, who has spent nearly 25 years at Le Monde, was on Tuesday elected as director of...
View ArticleLe Monde: a Paris referendum with Greek dressing
Alexis Tsipras take note: staff at France’s best newspaper rejected the owners’ choice of editorial director. Then they were told to vote again – and acceptedIf you think the Greek crisis has been a...
View ArticleHow the European press covered Boris Johnson's Brexit battle cry
Continental media highlight the domestic political ambitions at play in London mayor’s decision to back UK’s withdrawal from the EUEurope’s media were all but unanimous in describing Boris Johnson’s...
View ArticleTime to stop publishing photos and names of terrorists | Letters
One of the most persuasive of all metaphors – however cliched– is the “oxygen of publicity”. We all know that press coverage of terrorist attacks plays into the hands of terrorists by publicising their...
View ArticlePrint still has a future, and Le Monde can prove it. Aux armes, citoyens!
Gloomy advertising figures point to a bleak future for newspapers, but the revival of one Parisian heavyweight offers a way forwardSet aside this summer’s No 10 pulsations for a while and look at the...
View ArticleWhy we should publish the photographs of Isis terrorists
French media outlets that are refusing to publish pictures of perpetrators are wrong to indulge in self-censorship, which will have no practical benefitSome French newspapers and broadcasters have...
View ArticleFacebook censors Le Monde's mammogram screening photo
Social networking company apologises after picture of woman having mammogram with her breast exposed falls foul of its anti-nipple policy Facebook has apologised for removing a post by the French...
View ArticlePeople's Vote seeks to sway EU politicians with 'blind Brexit' poll
French and German media given poll showing support for second referendum could growThe People’s Vote campaign for a second Brexit referendum is seeking to turn French and German opinion against a...
View ArticleEuropean media greet May's defeat with Groundhog Day fatigue
PM’s hoarseness symbolises the UK being left voiceless by Brexit, says France’s Le MondeAll of today’s latest Brexit news - live updatesEuropean capitals are braced for a chaotic Brexit after MPs again...
View ArticleLe Monde journalists warn of threat to editorial independence
Readers informed of potential risk after 49% of shares sold without staff being informedJournalists and editors at the French newspaper Le Monde have signed an open letter demanding their owners...
View Article'A monumental blow': European papers respond to Boris Johnson's defeat in court
Die Zeit says PM should resign, while De Volkskrant cautions that ruling was not a solution to the UK’s crisisFollow the day’s politics news – liveEuropean media had few words harsh enough for a...
View Article'Dirty tricks expected': How Europe's media reacted to calling of UK election
Irish Times says ‘Brexit election’ will be like no other while El País calls it ‘second referendum’Latest politics news - live updatesEurope’s media and commentators couldn’t quite believe it: after...
View Article'Brutal, packed with untruths, uninspiring': European press on UK election
Socialism or Brexit? Britain is divided in two in a ‘Hamlet-like dilemma’, write Europe’s newspapersGeneral election 2019 – live newsFrance’s media have been following the UK election campaign closely...
View ArticleWhatsApp spyware attack: senior clergymen in Togo among activists targeted
Bishop from Togo among 1,400 individuals alerted by WhatsApp to malware attackA prominent Catholic bishop and a priest in Togo have been told they were targeted by spyware made by the private...
View ArticleRussia says it and Turkey urge end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh
Russia says two countries’ foreign ministers have found common ground after French journalists injured during shellingRussia and Turkey’s foreign ministers have agreed to the need for an immediate...
View ArticleBrexit deal greeted with relief by European media
Many welcome 11th-hour agreement, with some hoping it marks the end of anti-European sentimentAcross Europe’s media there was relief that a deal had finally been reached, and hope that it would mark a...
View ArticleLe Monde launches digital English language edition, partly translated by AI
French daily newspaper’s initiative is part of its mission to double its subscriber base by 2025One of France’s leading newspapers, Le Monde, has launched its first English-language digital edition...
View ArticleNew words in French dictionaries show ‘great suppleness’ of language
Pandemic and climate crisis account for most new entries in authoritative Le Robert and Larousse dictionariesFrom covidé (infected with coronavirus) to confinement (lockdown) and éco-anxiété (climate...
View ArticleBurkina Faso expels reporters from two French newspapers
Le Monde and Libération correspondents sent home in junta’s latest move against media from former colonial powerBurkina Faso has expelled correspondents from Le Monde and Libération, the newspapers...
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