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Mediapart
''Mediapart'' () is an independent nonprofit French Investigative journalism, investigative online newspaper created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, former editor-in-chief of . It is published in French language, French, English language, English, and Spanish language, Spanish. It has produced hundreds of investigations over the past 15 years, on political corruption, financial fraud, environmental crimes, as well as on sexual harassment and police violence. ''The New York Times'' has called ''Mediapart'' "France's leading investigative news site". The newspaper is owned by ''Le Fonds pour une Presse Libre'', a non-profit trust created to support freedom of the press. In March 2021, ''Mediapart'' reached more than 220,000 paid subscribers. Profile ''Mediapart's'' income is only derived from paid subscribers. Unlike most French newspapers, Mediapart refuses to display any advertising. It also refuses all commercial partnerships. Its official slogan is "Only Our Readers Can Buy Us". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carine Fouteau
Carine Fouteau (born 1974) is a French journalist. She is chief executive and publication director of Mediapart since March 2024. Biography Education Carine Fouteau studied history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Université Paris I where she graduated with a bachelor's degree. She has studied at Sciences Po Paris. In 1999 she got a master's degree in journalism at the New York University. Career Carine Fouteau began her journalist career in 1999 in French newspaper Les Echos (France), ''Les Echos'', first for the website, but shortly after in the printed newspaper team. At first writing on labor and working conditions, she created in 2003 a new section of the newspaper focused on social matters: Secularism in France, laicity, immigration, demography… In 2008 after LVMH's acquisition of ''Les Echos'', Carine Fouteau joined the brand new online newspaper ''Mediapart'', specializing in migration. She became one of the two chief editors ten years later, in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cahuzac Affair
On 19 March 2013 Jérôme Cahuzac resigned as a minister in charge of fighting against tax fraud due to Tax-fraud, tax fraud allegations. He later admitted that he had held a secret foreign bank account for about 20 years. As a consequence, he was officially excluded as a member of the Socialist Party. The release of the Panama Papers confirmed that Cahuzac owned a Seychelles company named Cerman Group Limited, incorporated in 2009, whose director and shareholder were from other offshore companies. Jérôme Cahuzac was sentenced to three years in prison and five years of ineligibility on 8 December 2016. Background The 2008 financial crisis is considered by many to be the worst financial crisis since the Wall Street crash of 1929. It left France and the rest of Europe exhausted and indebted. Nicolas Sarkozy was then President of France, from 2007 to 2012. Following his five-year tenure, he lost the second round of the 2012 presidential election against François Hollande, Francois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Crase
The Benalla affair () or Benalla affairs (''affaires Benalla'' or ''affaires Macron-Benalla'') are political and judicial cases involving Alexandre Benalla (), who served as a security officer and deputy chief of staff to President of France Emmanuel Macron. In the first affair, the newspaper ''Le Monde'' identified Benalla on 18 July 2018 in footage as the person who beat up a young protester during the 2018 May Day demonstrations in Paris while impersonating a police officer. Following the publication of the report, the Paris public prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation on 19 July concerning "violence, usurpation of the functions of a police officer and using signs reserved for public authorities". On 20 July, the Élysée announced that Benalla would be dismissed. On 22 July, Benalla was placed under formal investigation additionally for "concealment of a violation of professional secrecy" and "concealment of the misuse of images from a video surveillance system". An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwy Plenel
Hervé Edwy Plenel (; born 31 August 1952) is a French far-left political journalist. Biography Early life Plenel spent his childhood in Martinique and his youth in Algiers, Algeria. He studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. Career His career began in 1976 as a journalist for ''Rouge'', the official newspaper of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League (LCR – ''Ligue communiste révolutionnaire''). He briefly worked for ''Le Matin de Paris'' in 1980, before moving to the French newspaper ''Le Monde'', where he worked as the paper's education editor (1980–82), legal columnist (1982–90), a reporter (1991), head of the legal department (1992–94), chief editor (1994–95), assistant editorial director (1995–96), editor (1996–2000), and editor-in-chief (2000–04). From 1985 to 1986, while working for ''Le Monde'', he was one of the targets of a wiretapping scandal perpetrated by a secret presidential anti-terrorism cell, which he had implicated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettencourt Affair
The Bettencourt affair involves allegations of illegal payments made by billionaire heiress Liliane Bettencourt to François-Marie Banier and members of the French government associated with Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010. History In June 2010, Ms. Bettencourt became embroiled in a high-level French political scandal after other details of the tape recordings made by her butler became public. The tapes allegedly picked up conversations between Bettencourt and her financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre, which indicate that Bettencourt may have avoided paying taxes by keeping a substantial amount of cash in undeclared Swiss bank accounts. The tapes also allegedly captured a conversation between Bettencourt and Éric Woerth (then Minister of Labour), who was soliciting a job for his wife managing Bettencourt's wealth, while he was acting as budget minister and running a high-profile campaign to catch wealthy tax evaders. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Front (France)
The National Rally (, , RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (, , FN), is a French far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and nationalist. It is the single largest parliamentary opposition party in the National Assembly since 2022. It opposes immigration, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration, protection of French identity, and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party advocates a "more balanced" and "independent" French foreign policy, opposing French military intervention in Africa while supporting France leaving NATO's integrated command. It also supports reform of the European Union (EU), economic interventionism, protectionism, and zero tolerance for breaches of law and order. The party was founded in 1972 by the Ordre Nouveau to be the legitimate political vehicle for the far-right movement. Jean-Marie Le Pen was its founder and leader until his resignation in 2011. While its influence was marginal until 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information and spending beyond legal campaign funding limits during his 2012 re-election campaign. Born in Paris, his roots are 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish, and 1/4 French Catholic. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Ministry of the Economy and Finance (France), Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur (1993–1995) during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term, he served as Minister of the Interior (France), Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances (France), Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party from 2004 to 2007. He won the 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks () is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers. WikiLeaks has released List of material published by WikiLeaks, document caches and media that exposed serious violations of human rights and civil liberties by various gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarkozy-Gaddafi Case
Libya allegedly bankrolled the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy with up to €50 million in pay-outs. Sarkozy has denied wrongdoing and rejected suggestions he was a Libyan agent of influence during his tenure as president of France. He has since officially been convicted of corruption in 2021. Background 2007 election In May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France in a 2007 French presidential election, six-point victory over Ségolène Royal. Sarkozy officially spent €21 million on his campaign. The size of the campaign spend, relative to those seen in United States elections, prompted French scholar Sophie Meunier to later declare that "French politicians are, therefore, not enslaved to special interests or Super-PACs as they are in the U.S." During the 2007 French election, candidates were limited to spending no more than €21 million, and no single person could donate in excess of €7500 to a candidate. In addition, the sources of donations had to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Practitioners sometimes use the terms "watchdog reporting" or "accountability reporting". Most investigative journalism has traditionally been conducted by newspapers, News agency, wire services, and Freelancer, freelance journalists. With the decline in income through advertising, many traditional news services have struggled to fund investigative journalism, due to it being very time-consuming and expensive. Journalistic investigations are increasingly carried out by news organizations working together, even internationally (as in the case of the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers), or by Non-profit journalism, nonprofit outlets such as ProPublica, which rely on the suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
