Mediapart

Mediapart (French: [medjapaʁt]) is an independent French investigative online newspaper created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, former editor-in-chief of Le Monde.

Mediapart
FormatOnline
PublisherEdwy Plenel
EditorFrançois Bonnet
Founded2008
Political alignmentLeft
LanguageFrench, English, Spanish
HeadquartersParis, France
Circulation220,000 (paid subscribers) (as of 16 March 2021)
Websitemediapart.fr

It is published in French, English and Spanish.

Mediapart's income is only derived from paid subscribers. Unlike most French newspapers, Mediapart refuses to display any advertising. It also refuses all commercial partnerships.

Mediapart's official slogan is "Only our readers can buy us".

Mediapart has produced hundreds of investigations over the past 15 years, on political corruption, financial corruption, environmental damage, as well as on social, sexual, and police violence.

The New York Times has called Mediapart "France's leading investigative news site". The Financial Times described the editor as the "ex-Trotskyist rocking the French establishment".

In March 2021, Mediapart reached more than 220,000 paid subscribers.

Mediapart consists of two main sections: Le Journal, run by professional journalists, and Le Club, a collaborative forum edited by its subscriber community. In 2011, Mediapart launched FrenchLeaks, a whistleblower website inspired by WikiLeaks.

According to euro|topics, a news aggregator published by the German federal government agency Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Mediapart's political orientation is left wing.

Mediapart was originally a for-profit business. In 2018, the newspaper was converted by shareholders into a non-profit trust in order to fully protect its independence. Le Fond pour une Presse Libre is a non-profit trust created to secure the financial and editorial independence of Mediapart in perpetuity and defend freedom of the press. By design, trust board members do not have any authority over the newsroom.

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