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Le Point is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1972 by a group of journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
s who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of L'Express
L'Express (France)

L'Express is France's first weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the United States magazine TIME....
, which was then owned by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS was a France journalist and politician. He co-founded L'Express in 1953 with Fran?oise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party in 1971....
, a député (member of parliament
French National Assembly

The France National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the French Fifth Republic. The other is the French Senate ....
) of the Parti Radical.

The editorial team of spring 1972 found financial backing with group Hachette
Hachette (publishing)

Hachette is a large France media group, now a multinational.Originally, Hachette was a bookshop and publishing company set up by Louis Hachette in 1826....
 and was then directed by Claude Imbert. Other journalists making up the team were: Jacques Duquesne, Henri Trinchet, Pierre Billard, Robert Franc, Georges Suffert.






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Le Point is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1972 by a group of journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
s who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of L'Express
L'Express (France)

L'Express is France's first weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the United States magazine TIME....
, which was then owned by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS was a France journalist and politician. He co-founded L'Express in 1953 with Fran?oise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party in 1971....
, a député (member of parliament
French National Assembly

The France National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the French Fifth Republic. The other is the French Senate ....
) of the Parti Radical.

The editorial team of spring 1972 found financial backing with group Hachette
Hachette (publishing)

Hachette is a large France media group, now a multinational.Originally, Hachette was a bookshop and publishing company set up by Louis Hachette in 1826....
 and was then directed by Claude Imbert. Other journalists making up the team were: Jacques Duquesne, Henri Trinchet, Pierre Billard, Robert Franc, Georges Suffert. Management included Olivier Chevrillon, Pdg and Philippe Ramond.

The weekly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 recruited journalists from the Parisian
Parisian

Parisian was a moderate to upscale U.S. chain of department stores headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama.Founded in Birmingham, Alabama, Parisian had undergone a series of restructurings and mergers during its 130-year history, becoming a regional chain throughout much of the southeastern United States by the 1980s ....
 press
News media

The news media refers to the section of the mass media that focuses on presenting current news to the public.These include print media ; broadcast media , and increasingly Internet-based mass media ....
 and relied on its ability to redefine the genre
Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
. It modelled itself closely on magazines owned by News Magazine: Time Magazine and Newsweek
Newsweek

Newsweek is an United States weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally....
. After a fairly difficult start in September 1972, the magazine quickly challenged L'Express. It has changed ownership several times: from Gaumont, and Alcatel it is currently owned by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, a French multinational holding founded and owned by the billionaire businessman François Pinault
François Pinault

Fran?ois Pinault is a billionaire French businessman who runs the retail company PPR . He is a friend of former French President Jacques Chirac....
.

See also

  • Le Nouvel Observateur
    Le Nouvel Observateur

    Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French language newsmagazine. It is the most prominent French general information magazine based in Paris in terms of audience and circulation ....
     - general information French newsmagazine
  • L'Express
    L'Express (France)

    L'Express is France's first weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the United States magazine TIME....
     - conservative newsmagazine, owned by Belgian group Roularta
  • Iskandar Safa
    Iskandar Safa

    Iskandar Safa is a French businessman and billionaire of Lebanese origins , who became famous during the Lebanese hostage crisis in 1987-88 and suspected financial transactions of the ransom ....


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