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Article: Sacre Bleu! Le Monde gets a facelift. (Parisian newspaper's new format)
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- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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"Of course, Le Monde will always be Le Monde." Reporters and editors, printers and copy aides alike repeat these words as though they need to reassure themselves that their beloved paper isn't selling its soul. Yet the fact remains, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Paris' highly respected, austere (some might say stodgy) afternoon daily has undergone a facelift.
"For the readers it's a reform, but for us it's a revolution," says Laurent Greilsamer, a member of the five-person committee that designed what he describes as "the new formula," which includes a new typeface, new layout and even a new editorial hierarchy. The paper is making a concerted effort to ...