![]() In 2014, Groupe Le Monde announced that Le Monde would move into a new headquarters, also in the 13th arrondissement, around 2017, with space for 1,200 people. Bouteflika opened a libel suit against Le Monde, which was later dropped after the newspaper apologised. However, the paper clarified in its next edition that Bouteflika was not directly implicated, but maintained that his associates were. Coverage of the scandal in Le Monde included a front-page photo of President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Le Monde had previously published the names of Algerian officials directly involved with the Panama Papers scandal. The denial of visas to Le Monde reporters caused some French media to boycott the event, including Libération, Le Figaro, and France Inter. In April 2016, two Le Monde reporters were denied visas to visit Algeria as part of the French Prime Minister press convoy to Algeria. The Spanish court fined the newspaper nearly $450,000. In 2008, Le Monde was found guilty of defamation for saying that Spanish football club FC Barcelona was connected to a doctor involved in steroid use. The building's façade has an enormous fresco adorned by doves (drawn by Plantu) flying towards Victor Hugo, symbolising freedom of the press. The building-formerly the headquarters of Air France-was refashioned by Bouygues from the designs of Christian de Portzamparc. ![]() In December 2006, on the 60th anniversary of its publishing début, Le Monde moved into new headquarters in Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 13th arrondissement of Paris. Beuve-Méry reportedly demanded total editorial independence as the condition for his taking on the project. The paper took over the headquarters and layout of Le Temps, which had been the most important newspaper in France, but its reputation had suffered during the Occupation. Le Monde was founded in 1944, at the request of General Charles de Gaulle, after the German army had been driven from Paris during World War II. In recent years, the paper has established a greater distinction between fact and opinion. For instance, on the 10th anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the newspaper directly implicated François Mitterrand, who was the French president at the time, in the operation. Hence, it was considered less important for the paper to offer maximum coverage of the news than to offer thoughtful interpretation of current events. ![]() In contrast to other world newspapers such as The New York Times, Le Monde was traditionally focused on offering analysis and opinion, as opposed to being a newspaper of record. In June 2010, investors Matthieu Pigasse, Pierre Bergé, and Xavier Niel acquired a controlling stake in the newspaper. However, its profitability was not sufficient to cover the large debt loads it took on to fund this expansion, and it sought new investors in 2010 to keep the company out of bankruptcy. In the 1990s and 2000s, La Vie-Le Monde Group expanded under editor Jean-Marie Colombani with a number of acquisitions. The paper's journalistic side has a collegial form of organization, in which most journalists are not only tenured, but financial stakeholders in the enterprise as well, and participate in the elections of upper management and senior executives. Le Monde was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 in France found that " Le Monde is the most trusted national newspaper". It should not be confused with the monthly publication Le Monde diplomatique, of which Le Monde has 51% ownership, but which is editorially independent. It is considered one of the French newspapers of record, along with Libération, and Le Figaro. It has had its own website since 19 December 1995, and is often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-French-speaking countries. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. 'The World') is a French daily afternoon newspaper. Le Monde ( French pronunciation: ( listen) lit.
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