La Presse The Press. The French word for a newspaper
is le journal
, newspapers les journaux
.
The news is L'actualité or Les informations
.
Les titres
is the Headlines.
French newspapers
The French people are not huge readers of daily newspapers as compared to the British. Below is a list of the main newspaper publishers.
Alternative press
- L'âge de faire : Atlernative Ecomomie, Ecologie and Citizens
- RUE89 : This is one of the only independent newspapers left, provocative and always upto date
Classic French press
- Le Monde diplomatique, the most independant and honest (but radically honest)
- Le Liberation, left tendancy
- Le Figaro, right tendancy
- Le Monde, right tendancy
- Le Nouvel Observateur, almost moderate
- L'Humanité, the communist party's newspaper
- La Croix French Catholic news paper
Regional and local newspaper.
- Nice-Matin for the south
- La Voix du Nord for the north
French news magazines
Unike their attitude to newpapers, the French have one of the largest choices in the world for coloured magazines and are big consumers.
