“Long live freedom of expression!” It is difficult to ignore the ambition of the JDNewsthe newcomer on newsstands this Wednesday, September 18: the slogan appears twice on its azure blue cover. At the top, under the name of the publication, as an affirmation of its editorial line; and at the bottom, as the title of the main issue of this 60-page (much less than other news magazines) illustrated by a marble Marianne wearing a tricolor scarf.
Offered at 2.20 euros when sold alone, and 2.90 euros when distributed with THE Sunday Journal, The JDNews (contraction of JDD and CNews) is aimed at “all those who want to hear about a positive and enterprising France”, had recently announced the journalist Laurence Ferrari, in Paris MatchWhen contacted, the weekly (circulation of 130,000 copies) did not respond to our requests for information.
Oddly enough, the former head of the political department of the celebrity weekly had chosen the title she left at the end of August (without any fanfare or farewell party) rather than the JDDwhose brand she now chairs, to announce the arrival of the magazine. At her side, Geoffroy Lejeune, editorial director of the JDD and of JDNewsas well as Louis de Raguenel, the editorial director of the JDNews and head of the political and police-justice services of Europe 1 contribute to putting “Current events, exclusive information and counter-investigations to re-establish the truth”she wrote in a welcoming editorial, “in the heart” of the project.
“Without taboos”
An objective that is realized in the inside pages by an interview with the CEO of Dassault Aviation Eric Trappier, the “beautiful story” by Olivier Goy, an entrepreneur suffering from Charcot’s disease, or even a supposed “political-media manipulation dismantled by the investigation” on the death of young Nahel killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in June 2023.
The front page report, called “Face à l’info” (like Christine Kelly’s show on CNews), is written by academics Alain Finkielkraut and Daniel Rondeau, philosopher Michel Onfray, essayists Mathieu Bock-Côté and Rachel Khan, and journalists Pascal Praud and Philippe Labro, while Geoffroy Lejeune writes an interview “without taboo” with the writer Michel Houellebecq. A page initialed by the sovereignist Philippe de Villiers, also familiar with the antennas of CNews and Europe 1, closes the magazine.
Read the editorial in “Le Monde”: Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the “JDD”: an opinion press cannot free itself from all principles
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The JDNews takes over from the JDD Magazinewhose seventeenth and final issue was published in June. The resolutely cultural monthly that had not found its profitability target is now being replaced by a weekly with an assumed political scope. Until now, the ultra-conservative furrow traced by the galaxy of channels of the Canal+ group (of which the Vivendi group is the majority shareholder) does not guarantee their profitability. And if CNews or C8 attract viewers, readers are not tearing themselves away The Sunday Journal since it was led by Geoffroy Lejeune. Its sales have in fact continued to decline since the editorial purge in the summer of 2023 and its takeover by the journalist from Current values.
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