Rue89 is a French

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started by former journalists from the newspaper ''

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''. It was officially launched on 6 May 2007, on the day of the second round of the French presidential election. Its

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is Pascal Riché, former

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of Libération, and its

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. The president of the society ''Rue89'' is Pierre Haski, the former deputy editor of ''Libération''.

History

''Rue89'' was co-founded by Pierre Haski, Pascal Riché, Arnaud Aubron, Michel Lévy-Provençal, and Laurent Mauriac. ''Libération'', which had been bought back by Édouard de Rothschild, was then in the turmoil of a crisis, which included a plan of downsizing and the voluntary resignation of a number of its long-standing employees. As soon as 14 May 2007, ''Rue89'' published its first

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, taken up by the rest of the French press, which concerned the

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of an article which was to be published by ''

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'', owned by

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, who is close to Sarkozy. The suppressed article spoke about the

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, the wife of the new President

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, at the second round of the Presidential election. On 5 September 2007, Pascal Riché revealed that

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, a collaborator of ''

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'' and of

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, had signed a false interview of

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, published in ''

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''. The article underlined a number of incoherencies concerning Debat's alleged Curriculum Vitae. Rue89's scoop was taken up by ''

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'', and Debat resigned from ''The National Interest''.

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'', 13 September 2007 In February 2008, Michel Lévy-Provençal, one of the founders, who left when the website was launched, sold his shares and criticized Rue89 for being a "marketing success" but a journalistic failure. In October 2008, Rue89 launched Eco89, a news site dedicated to economics. In June 2010, Rue89 launched a monthly paper. In December 2011, Rue89 was bought by

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, owner of the weekly ''

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'' for €7.5 million. In April 2012, Rue89 ceased its monthly print issue. The same year the website won the general excellence award in non-English

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. In March 2014, Rue89 and the

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launched the first French

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about digital journalism. As of March 2015, after refocusing on the so-called "digital revolution" in late 2014, Rue89 global audience is far behind other French online newspapers such as The Huffington Post France. In January 2017, only four journalists were still working for Rue89 and the website was virtually dead.

Name

According to its editor, Pascal Riché, the name Rue89 has been chosen as a reference to freedom, through

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(1789) and the fall of the Berlin wall (1989) as much as the symbolism of the street (french: links=no, rue) as a place of meeting and discussion.People - Time Wires
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Founders

* Pierre Haski, President of the society Rue89 and editor in chief (''directeur de la publication'') * Pascal Riché, news editor (''rédacteur en chef'') * Arnaud Aubron, webmaster/editor * Michel Lévy-Provençal * Laurent Mauriac, CFO

Team

* Mathieu Deslandes, deputy news editor * Zineb Dryef : journalist

References

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