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Mediapart

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Online

Editor
  
François Bonnet

Headquarters
  
Publisher
  
Founded
  
2008

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Mediapart is a French online investigative and opinion journal created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, the former editor-in-chief of Le Monde. Mediapart is published in French, English and Spanish.

Mediapart's income is solely derived from subscription fees; the website does not carry any advertising. In 2011, Mediapart made a profit for the first time, netting €500,000 from around 60,000 subscribers.

Mediapart consists of two main sections: the journal itself, 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.

Political scandals

Mediapart has played a central role in the revelation and investigation of at least three major French political scandals:

  • The Bettencourt affair in 2010.
  • The Sarkozy-Gaddafi case case in 2012. Mediapart made public two official Lybian documents suggesting the existence of a 50 millions € transfer from the Lybian regim to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign
  • The Cahuzac case in 2012. Mediapart made public an audio recording from 2000 compromising Jérome Cahuzac, then France's Minister for the Budget, in a fiscal fraud case.
  • References

    Mediapart Wikipedia


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