the informed reveals the large tax adjustment of Free, which must pay nearly 43 million. Because the company had reduced the VAT it had to pay. It’s not just proprietary information. It’s much more than that for this new medium. Because these are revelations about its own shareholder, Xavier Niel. The billionaire has indeed invested in this economic investigation website.
“We have complete editorial freedom”
When the creation of the site was announced, Gilles Tanguy, the founder and editorial director, had guaranteed the editorial independence of his new site. the informed at the microphone of Europe 1. This is now proven with the publication of this survey. Few media today can claim to be independent vis-à-vis their shareholder.
“We had always said that we would talk about all the companies, all the leaders, including our shareholder. So there is no particular message. We do our job as we would have done with n’ any other leader. Honestly, we said from the start, including on your antenna, that we had complete editorial freedom”, explains Gilles Tanguy at the microphone of Culture Media. “We first obtained it in the statutes of the publishing company of the informed since the editorial staff, via the society of journalists, has a right of veto on the change of shareholders, on the change of the editorial director. She controls 34% of the company. And we also promised that it would show in our articles, in our editorial production.
Xavier Niel lets journalists do their job
The direction of Free was obviously contacted to have a reaction to the article. But she declined to comment. And Xavier Niel did not contact the editorial staff of the informed to prevent publication. He lets the journalists do their job. Since the launch of the site, exactly one week ago, the informed chained the articles with exclusive information: for example the “secret figures of the web empire” of Squeezie, the biggest French Youtuber, the sale of the Carrefour company, Greenweez, specialized in organic products but also Dany Boon sentenced for unfair dismissal, the social plan at Engie…
A number of subscribers “beyond the hopes” of Gilles Tanguy
This allowed to the informed to have the first subscribers. The founder and editorial director of the informed, Gilles Tanguy, draws up a good assessment of these first days. “It’s going really well. It’s a number of subscribers that is beyond all our hopes, our expectations. I am delighted with these beginnings, with this reception. I was confident that there were a lot of French people who were ready to take an interest in the economy. Now the hard part begins. Subscribers, we obviously have to continue to recruit many more than these and above all to retain them, that they want to stay with us. So we will continue to offer them exclusive information in all universes”.
Gilles Tanguy founded this media after having been digital director of several sites of the Prisma group, including that of Capital. the informed is an independent economic investigation media, online, accessible by subscription at the price of 9.99 euros with a free trial period of 15 days.