Le Monde

Le Monde is a French daily newspaper and news website based in Paris. It was founded on 19 December 1944 and is considered France's newspaper of record. The group is owned by a holding that includes the entrepreneur Xavier Niel, and the Czech investor Daniel Křetínský bought a stake in the investment company of Matthieu Pigasse, another shareholder, in 2018. Le Monde had more than 500,000 digital subscribers in October 2023 and a paid circulation of about 534,000 in 2024.

Features

• Daily newspaper and a news website with live pages, analysis and long reads.
• Digital edition in English, launched in April 2022 and partly translated with the help of AI.
• Reporting from correspondents in many countries, with a strong focus on France and Europe.
• Newsletters, podcasts and a mobile app.

Model and limits

Le Monde finances itself through subscriptions: non-subscribers can read a limited number of articles per month, and the archive is behind the paywall. Most content is in French, and only a selection of articles is translated into English.