In 2014, Le Monde had just over 70,000 digital subscribers. Ten years later, there are more than 575,000, making our newspaper France’s leading news organization by subscriber base. Looking back over the last decade to take stock of the new projects, new products, new formats, new editorial fields offered to those who read and follow us, we never imagined we’d reach this point: Since 2014, Le Monde has created an average of two new events, services, supplements or formats every year, making a total of around 20 new features.
Our leitmotiv is to reach out to our readers on the media they love, to take them into new territory, to invest in new forms, but always to apply the same high standards to our editorial production. From our videos published on TikTok to the print edition of the newspaper, we employ the same rigorous journalistic standards, albeit in very different forms.
From geek culture to intimacy
“When, at a planning meeting, I announce an upcoming article on toilets, after a litany of topics on wars and political crises, it can seem iconoclastic,” said Nicolas Santolaria, head of L’Epoque, Le Monde‘s weekend section devoted to “the small changes and big mutations of our daily lives,” created in March 2016. He’s not the only one to experience this sense of disconnect. The expanded editorial fields covered by Le Monde over the past 10 years give pride of place to themes that were previously marginal in our pages or on our site.
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