A challenge. On October 8, press readers who still have a kiosk open on Sundays will discover a newcomer there. Extension of the economic newspaper exclusively available online since July 2020, The Tribune on Sunday will offer generalist content, announced the president of The gallery (Hima group), Jean-Christophe Tortora, Sunday August 20.
“We wanted to accompany our readers who, on weekends, are waiting for something elsejustifies at World Toulouse entrepreneur. Sunday is the day when there are the fewest offers from national dailies, and the most appetite for leisure and pleasure reading, large formats, major surveys, etc. » The first part of the newspaper will be turned towards “the world around you” (international, politics, society, ecology, etc.), when the other half will give pride of place to “world close to us” (culture, leisure, books, art of living, deciphering the media, etc.), he explains. “We will try to have the best of both worlds. »
Beyond Philippe Mabille and Fabrice Gliszczynski, the editor and deputy editor, the project rests on the shoulders of Bruno Jeudy, the former political and economic editor of Paris Matchfired in the summer of 2022 after challenging the editorial staff of the weekly against the front page devoted to the ultra-conservative cardinal Robert Sarah.
The forty journalists from the editorial staff of The gallery will be used to feed the 32 pages of this seventh day daily (which will also be available online). But the arrival of Soazig Quéméner (ex-head of the political department of Marianneformer editor at Sunday newspaper) at his side and that of Ludovic Vigogne (ex-political journalist at Opinionwho also worked alongside Mr. Jeudy during his time at Parisian) in the political service also augurs a desire to contribute strongly to Sunday political news, the favorite terrain of the Sunday newspaper (JDD) before the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune (ex-Current values) to the editorship.
A circulation of 120,000 copies
Jean-Christophe Tortora, however, denies looking for a possible windfall effect. “The real challenge is to convince the French to go to their newsagents and do a civic act by buying a newspaperhe assures. And if it’s The Tribune on Sunday, I will be very happy. » “Fifteen hires” should also enable the team thus reinforced to deal with culture and leisure news which it has been doing without up to now. Applications from journalists JDD “departing” (only three or four journalists out of the fifty or so on permanent contracts from the editorial staff of the newspaper being taken over by Vincent Bolloré should remain in post, according to an internal source) will be examined ” like the others “. External columnists should also contribute their pen and their notoriety.
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