Laurent Joffrin will launch his own media on Wednesday

Rémi Jacob 10:06 am, April 11, 2023, modified at 10:07 am, April 11, 2023

The media launched by Laurent Joffrin will be an online media. It will be called Le Journal, a simple and effective name. The objective of the former boss of Liberation is just as important: to make the voice of another left heard. A left that he intends to get out of its current radicalism. This is what he unveiled in preview this morning, on Europe 1...

"The French left has lost its compass"

"This newspaper was born of anger, anger at the evolution of our democracy," he told Culture Media. "Democracy is turning into a cacophony. Rational arguments are constantly covered by the invective of the extremes. This applies in particular to the left. The French left has lost its compass," said Laurent Joffrin. "She flatly obeys the ukases of the rebellious France. The left is in the process of locking itself into radicalism and we must therefore get out of it. And that's why we're creating this new medium. It will be made of a daily letter that I will have the honor to write and a site that will be a digital daily and that will be as lively as possible, responsive, polemical too, but also open and constructive.

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Laurent Joffrin claims his militant side

There will therefore be a daily newsletter and a website, whose editorial director will be Jean-Paul Mari. He is an alumnus of the Nouvel Observateur, who was awarded the Albert Londres Prize. This media will be free. It will be financed by donations but also advertising, advertisements that will be chosen, says Laurent Joffrin, who also claims his militant side.

"It is a newspaper of opinion that does not intend to cover exhaustively all the news," he explained on Europe 1. "We will deal with everything related to political life in the broadest sense. It is a political, ideological and cultural struggle on the values of a republican left, a social left. We will talk about both political life, but also about ecological change." The Journal will be launched tomorrow.