Le Point
Le Point is a French weekly news magazine based in Paris, covering politics, economics, society, and culture. It is generally regarded as centre-right in editorial orientation and addresses a readership interested in news analysis and commentary. Alongside its weekly print edition, it operates a website providing continuous coverage of French and international affairs.
Le Point at a glance
- Country
- France
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- News magazine
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Founded
- 1972
- Owner
- Artémis (the Pinault family)
- Published from
- Paris
- Website
- lepoint.fr ↗
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How Crosswire groups Le Point
Crosswire groups Le Point as Right-leaning for comparisons within France's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In France, Libération and Mediapart are listed as Left-leaning, while Le Monde and Le Parisien are listed as Centrist — so you can open Le Point beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Le Point sits in France's press
Le Point was founded in 1972, is published from Paris and is owned by Artémis (the Pinault family). It is one of 11 outlets tracked in France, and one of 2 news magazines among them — the other being L'Express. By outlets tracked, France ranks third of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 6 of the 11 news magazines in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Le Point outside France, starting with Western Europe, are Der Spiegel (Germany), De Groene Amsterdammer (Netherlands) and Monaco Hebdo (Monaco). Opening one of them beside Le Point is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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