Culture: Media / Paris
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An esteemed weekly newspaper in France is staking its future on pluralism and literary ambition.
In the fast-changing pocket of suburban Paris where Citroën cars were manufactured until the 1970s, a modernist structure designed by US architect Richard Meier sticks out of the tangle of concrete residential blocks. The only clue that this all-white Rubik’s Cube of a building is the headquarters of Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), one of France’s biggest weekly newspapers, is the discreet sign of Lagardère News, the media group that co-owns the title, above the entrance. “We’ll go straight to the morning meeting,” says Stéphane Albouy, the JDD’s…
