The Les Jours site, in balance, celebrates five years of obsessions
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The Days found their balance at the end of 2020, a year made very gloomy by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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An independent and advertising-free French media, Les Jours is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month and has reached an important milestone for a media: financial balance.
Meeting with part of the team.
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LesJours.fr
French news site available on subscription was launched in February 2016 by journalists - most of them had left the daily
Liberation
- who wanted to blow a new wind on information, made of obsessions, reports and decryption long term, in series, in episodes.
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echoed the development and then the launch of the site.
Five years later, Les Jours has just reached a financial break-even point, so returning to take the pulse of this writing again was obvious.
On Tuesday, February 9, three of the co-founders of Les Jours received us in their premises in the 19th arrondissement of Paris: President
Isabelle Roberts
, co-editor of the editorial board
Raphaël Garrigos
and
Sophian Fanen
, a journalist who covers the music industry in particular - but he also spends a lot of time putting together musical playlists to accompany every obsession.
In this podcast, we come back to the journalistic approach of Les Jours - which Isabelle Roberts associates with
deep journalism
-, the attention paid to user experience (UX), the importance of the community of subscribers - including more than half are under 35 years old - the economic situation and avenues for development of the media.
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