After the golden age, French news weeklies seem to be in perpetual revolution in recent years.
Their financial balance has never been so fragile, while all titles in the news magazine market saw their circulation decline in 2023 according to the Alliance for Press and Media Figures (ACPM).
“
It’s a family in the midst of change, which is going through major financial or editorial restructuring movements ,
”
analyzes Jean-Paul Dietsch, deputy director general of the ACPM.
Having become deficit again in 2023,
L'Obs
thus experienced a tormented year.
The title, owned by the Le Monde Libre group, saw its paid distribution in France fall by 7.36% over one year, to 190,000 copies.
One piece of data is worrying: individual digital subscriptions, supposed to represent a growth driver in the face of the decline in paper copies (- 18% on newsstands, - 7% in subscription), fell by 24% over one year according to the ACPM with 21 810 web subscribers.
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