Mediapart

Mediapart

Format	Online
Publisher	Edwy Plenel
Editor	François Bonnet
Founded	2008
Language	French, English, Spanish
Headquarters	Paris, France
Circulation	120,000
Website	http://www.mediapart.fr

Mediapart is a French online investigative and opinion journal created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, the former editor-in-chief of Le Monde. Mediapart is published in French, English and Spanish.

Mediapart's income is solely derived from subscription fees; the website does not carry any advertising. In 2011, Mediapart made a profit for the first time, netting €500,000 from around 60,000 subscribers.^[1]

Mediapart consists of two main sections: the journal itself, Le Journal, run by professional journalists, and Le Club, a collaborative forum edited by its subscriber community. In 2011, Mediapart launched FrenchLeaks, a whistleblower website inspired by WikiLeaks.^[2]^[3]

Political scandals

Mediapart has played a central role in the revelation and investigation of at least three major French political scandals:

The Bettencourt affair in 2010.^[4]
The Sarkozy-Gaddafi case case in 2012. Mediapart made public two official Lybian documents suggesting the existence of a 50 millions € transfer from the Lybian regim to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign
The Cahuzac case in 2012. Mediapart made public an audio recording from 2000 compromising Jérome Cahuzac, then France's Minister for the Budget, in a fiscal fraud case.^[5]

References

↑ "Breaking down the paywall". Global Journalist. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
↑ Smith, Sydney (12 March 2011). "New WikiLeaks Partner Launches FrenchLeaks, Canadian Man Launches QuebecLeaks". iMediaEthics. Art Science Research Laboratory. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
↑ Cherubini, Federica (11 March 2011). "FrenchLeaks launches: a new whistle-blowing site from Mediapart". Editor's Weblog. World Association of Newspapers and New Publishers. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
↑ Jacinto, Leela (6 July 2010). "How a start-up news site broke and rode the Bettencourt scandal". France 24. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
↑ Sayare, Scott (19 March 2013). "French Minister Steps Down in Swiss Bank Investigation". New York Times. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

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