France: The business newspaper La Tribune will launch a Sunday edition in October

The economic newspaper La Tribune, recently bought by the shipowner CMA CGM of billionaire Rodolphe Saadé, will launch on October 8 a general edition of Sunday.

Copies of the newspaper La Tribune in 2012, before the end of the paper version of the daily. La Tribune Dimanche would sign the return of the media in paper version. © ALEXANDER KLEIN / AFP

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La Tribune Dimanche will be directed by journalist Bruno Jeudy. It will compete with the two other national generalist Sunday newspapers, the JDD, now headed by the journalist marked to the extreme right Geoffroy Lejeune, and the Sunday edition of the daily Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France. The fourth national newspaper to be published on Sundays in France is the sports daily L'Équipe. "We want to be the daily Sunday newspaper, without political color, which brings together all the French," announced its president, Jean-Christophe Tortora, Sunday in Le Figaro. Created in 1985, La Tribune is now an exclusively digital weekday daily, having abandoned its daily paper format in 2012 and then weekly in 2020.

This announcement comes as the JDD experienced a 40-day strike between late June and early August after the announcement of the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at its head. Many have seen behind this appointment the hand of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, whose Vivendi group is swallowing Lagardère, owner of the JDD. Worried that the title would take a turn to the right, many journalists decided to leave.

The boss of the shipowner CMA CGM, very active in the world of media

According to Jean-Christophe Tortora, the project of La Tribune Dimanche dates back several months and was not set up to compete with the JDD. "I am not taking advantage of a market opportunity related to the situation at the JDD, because discussions around our Sunday daily project were initiated with Rodolphe Saadé in February," he said.

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This launch is further proof of Rodolphe Saadé's ambitions in the media sector, where he is very active. Based in Marseille, the powerful shipowner CMA CGM, which he manages, took control of La Tribune at the end of May via the acquisition of Jean-Christophe Tortora's HIMA group.

In October, CMA CGM, which recorded a record net profit of more than 2022 billion euros in 23, had already become the owner of the La Provence group, the regional dailies La Provence and Corse Matin. He then invited himself, at the end of 2022, to the capital of the audiovisual group M6, then, at the beginning of April, to that of the online video media Brut.

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