Skippers, artists, chefs... Why do they like "20 Minutes"?

• If a large audience immediately joined

  20 Minutes

  , it was not the same with politicians, artists, scientists...

• Fortunately, all that has changed and today, many personalities trust

  20 Minutes

  .

" 20 years ?

Already ?

I saw you much younger… ”This is the majority reaction among the personalities that

contacted to announce its 20th anniversary.

Perfectly identified in the media landscape, with a very strong notoriety,

nevertheless retains an image of eternal youth.

There may be an explanation for this.

If a large public immediately joined

, it was not the same with politicians, artists, scientists... It took a few years before all these brave people trusted

in us. granting, for example, interviews…

Fortunately, all that has changed and today, many personalities trust

for fruitful partnerships.

For example, since the 2019 Jacques-Vabre transatlantic race, 

has been  sailing on all oceans thanks to Thomas Ruyant.

The northern skipper has remained faithful to 

for the Vendée Globe 2020 (6th), while waiting for the Route du Rhum 2022

: 

's a beautiful house, with the image of a well-known and recognized brand with which we set up something nice that is not done in the sailing world.

»

octopus and fantasy

The writer Maxime Chattam does not say anything else to explain why he agreed to be president of the jury for the

of the first novel: "What made me want to take part in the prize was the idea of ​​spreading culture in a popular newspaper, which everyone knows and to which everyone has access because we found everywhere and that it is free.

"Culture", "popular", "everyone", these are values ​​that speak to me.

So, if there is a literary prize that could make sense to me, it was particularly this one.

The idea of ​​launching a prize that has never existed before, of being able to see how it emerges within an editorial staff, how it works... In addition, the first year, the prize was awarded to an adventure novel and fantasy.

I was very surprised, but very proud that we were able to go through with our approach and tell ourselves that even if the genre belongs to a niche,

Above all, we reward the quality of a text that is creative, with characters that are strong, with writing that exists;

a novelist who has potential, not just for a book, but for a career.

»

In another register, in the spring of 2019, Juan Arbelaez chose

to announce that he was stopping cooking octopus, he did not imagine the explosion that this announcement would cause.

"People still talk to me about this octopus story today", emphasizes the chef who felt, at the time, that it was necessary to give this species a break, of which he cooked a ton a month and which was beginning to be threatened by overfishing.

“I was congratulated and supported in my initiative, he recalls.

Some have blamed me too, because with global warming, octopuses now go all the way to Brittany and Normandy to attack scallops and lobsters… Anyway, the reactions that this arouses for three years demonstrate the power of

 !

»

Angela and Sarah

Other artists undoubtedly keep a strong memory of

, the flavor of the first time… Among the many artists that

has participated in revealing to the general public, there is in particular Orelsan.

Behind the scenes of his first interview with a national media are told in the documentary

(with a small tackle to the journalist in passing, no thank you Aurélien) which retraces his career.

A little more recently, Angèle was closely followed by

.

When she started talking about her, everything went very quickly for the Belgian singer.

was in the room of his first show case, for the MaMA Festival, like almost all the music professionals who came to offer him golden contracts... It was not very difficult to sniff out a future phenomenon, which we chose , from her first singles, to put on the front page of

, the first front page in a national media for Angèle.

But then what made the difference that, when releasing her second album and an autobiographical documentary on Netflix, Angèle chose

for his first post-coming out interview?

“Each time we did an interview together, I felt an attention to my music and my sensitivity, said the singer in the preamble to this interview.

It is very rare among the media with large audiences and it has always marked me.

»

In November 2003, a frail actress with explosive spontaneity burst onto the screen, it was Sara Forestier in 

 by Abdellatif Kéchiche.

A fiery temper on which 

 is ready to bet a ticket long before the public success of the film and the César for best female hope.

There is a habit, like a game, of wanting to reveal young talents at 

 and which has become more refined over time.

Eighteen years after Sara Forestier,

 has thus devoted a nice portrait to Anamaria Vartolomei, the actress of 

 d'Audrey Diwan.

She too will obtain, in 2022, the César for best female hope.

But beyond this clearing work,

also had fun proposing somewhat crazy projects to artists who placed their trust in us.

If we had to remember only one, it would be the report at the Palace of Versailles with Philippe Katerine, for the Murakami exhibition, which the singer had agreed to illustrate with his own drawings.

An iconoclastic and joyful troublemaker in the alley of kings, a beautiful metaphor for the history of

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YouTube and

20 Minutes

If you hang out a bit on YouTube, you might know Cyrus North.

Or Julien Ménielle and his show Dans ton corps.

But for sure, you know Cyprien.

What do these well-established YouTubers have in common?

They all three went through 20 Minutes to hone their skills.

Cyprien launched the Rewind, a short program of unusual info on video.

The format was then embodied by Samuel Robbé and then Cyrus North.

Julien Ménielle, for his part, changed from a former nurse journalist to a health youtuber by taking over the management of the 20 Minutes video service for a few years.

Witness to the rise of YouTube as a medium, 20 Minutes has also been an actor by providing several of its most creative members.

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