The atypical television magazine Le Papotin will appear for the first time on newsstands this Wednesday. This program carried by non-professional journalists with autism disorders brings together an average of 3 million viewers on France 2 and publishes an annual issue which can usually be ordered on the Internet.
Successfully adapted for television, Le Papotin, an atypical magazine run by journalists with autism spectrum disorders, arrives on newsstands on Wednesday, a first since its creation in 1990, announced Prisma Media, which is supporting this launch free of charge.
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3 million viewers
Until now, you had to go to the dedicated website to order this newspaper which appears once a year and has sold between 3,000 and 3,500 copies since it gave rise, in 2022, to the “Rencontres du Papotin”, a broadcast followed by three million viewers on average on France 2.
Sold for 10 euros and printed in 10,000 copies, its 42nd issue, which devotes its front page to the singer Philippe Katerine and the Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, will be available “in nearly 3,000 points of sale throughout France” from on Wednesday, according to a press release from the Prisma Media press group.
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The artistic director of the Paris 2024 Olympics ceremonies, Thomas Jolly, the host Daphné Bürki, the former Minister of Justice Christine Taubira and the Russian model Natalia Vodianova also appear in the summary of the 136 pages of this edition, faithful to the previous ones, where many personalities took part in the game of unfiltered and confusing interviews.
Journalists with autism spectrum disorders
Created 35 years ago by Driss El Kesri, educator at the Antony day hospital, near Paris, Le Papotin is based on an editorial committee made up of around forty non-professional journalists with spectrum disorders. ‘autism.
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The spin-off show, moderated by Julien Bancilhon, editor-in-chief of the publication and psychologist, was launched on an idea from directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache (“Intouchables”), and notably received the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron . At the request of the newspaper team, Prisma Media, the leading magazine press group in France (Télé-Loisirs, Voici, Femme Actuelle, Geo, etc.), “mobilized its various partners” to enable its distribution to newsagents .
“Thus, the MLP (Messageries Lyonnaises de presse), the SNDP (national union of press depositaries) and Culture Presse (union of press distributors) all three accepted that the magazine be distributed free of charge in the press network”, according to Prisma Media, which also “intervened with the printer to adapt the production method to the increase in circulation”. On the other hand, “editorial work remains exclusively controlled by the editorial committee of Papotin”, underlines Prisma Media, in the fold of conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
