Article: Can this newspaper be saved? 'Extreme emergency' at Le Monde reflects the turmoil in the French press

Doreen Carvajal The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
04-21-2008
Can this newspaper be saved? 'Extreme emergency' at Le Monde reflects the turmoil in the French press
Byline: Doreen Carvajal The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 3
Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS

PARIS --

During their second strike in a week, journalists at Le Monde streamed out of the newspaper's nine-story headquarters in ghostly masks and rumpled white T-shirts painted with numbers from 1 to 129.

The numerals - equal to about a quarter of the 600 employees on the staff - denoted the number of journalists that management was seeking to lay off at the unprofitable 63-year-old institution as part of a revival ...

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