Mediapart

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Mediapart
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Format Online
Publisher Edwy Plenel
Editor François Bonnet
Founded 2008
Language French, English, Spanish
Headquarters Paris, France
Circulation 112,000
Website http://www.mediapart.fr

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.[1]

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.[2][3]

Political scandals

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

  • The Bettencourt affair in 2010.[4]
  • 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.[5]

References

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