---------- > From: Le Monde diplomatique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: info-diplo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Le Monde diplomatique en anglais > Date: Dienstag, 22. September 1998 15:39 > > Le Monde diplomatique > et The Guardian Weekly > > Le Monde diplomatique > en anglais > > > Le 20 septembre, The Guardian Weekly a publié > le premier numéro du Monde diplomatique en anglais, > dans un supplément de seize pages. > > * > * * > > > PROCHAINES PARUTIONS > > 25 OCTOBRE ET 22 NOVEMBRE > > > Pour toute demande d'information, écrire à Patrick Ensor, > The Guardian Weekly, 75, Farrington road, London EC1M 3HQ > <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Le Monde diplomatique en anglais est également disponible > sur Internet : http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/ > > > Comme celles de nos éditions en allemand (Berlin et Zürich), > italien (Rome), espagnol (Madrid et Mexico), grec (Athènes) > et arabe (Beyrouth), la réussite de cette édition en langue > anglaise est d'une première importance à nos yeux et pour la > diffusion de nos idées. > > > Merci de bien vouloir nous aider à la > faire connaître, par exemple en adressant > à vos correspondants anglophones le texte > ci-dessous. > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > > This week (20 September) will see the first of three > supplements of Le Monde diplomatique which are being printed > and distributed by The Guardian Weekly (GW) on a free trial > basis (September, October, November). > > The GW is part of Guardian Publications Ltd., UK, and it is > distributed worldwide, sold mainly by subscription. > > We hope this will be the start of a regular printed edition > of Le Monde diplomatique to which you or your friends may > wish to subscribe, jointly with The Guardian Weekly. > > For more information please contact Patrick Ensor, > The Guardian Weekly, 75, Farrington road, London EC1M 3HQ > <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To secure a copy of this first edition, contact your local > newsagent or the Guardian Weekly to place an order. The GW > can be contacted for regular subscriptions at > <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > > In this first issue, Ignacio Ramonet writes: > > Le Monde diplomatique > Taking a stand > > We are delighted to welcome readers of The Guardian Weekly > into the family of people who are regular readers of Le > Monde diplomatique... > > Our desire to broaden the readership of Le Monde > diplomatique beyond the confines of France is not a recent > thing. Already one third of total sales of our > French-language edition are to readers overseas. From the > start, we have been not a French newspaper that happens to > sell abroad, but an international paper that happens to be > based in France. Not only does our newspaper offer broad > coverage of major world developments, but we also open our > pages to intellectuals, experts, journalists, writers and > public figures from all around the world. This has been a > major contributing factor in our success. > > Le Monde diplomatique is in excellent health. Over the past > ten years our circulation has doubled - rising from 135,000 > copies at the end of 1987 to 270,000 by late 1997. Our > readers tend to be young - 81% of them are under 49 and 41% > under 34. We were the first paper in France to have its own > site on the Internet, and visits to our French-language site > are now approaching 200,000 per week.... > > Newspapers today are going through a bad patch. So what we > have achieved is good news for all who care about freedom of > expression, and who want to see that freedom operating in > the interests of reliable reporting, a concern for justice > and an ethic of solidarity... > > Our readers appreciate us because we are serious about our > journalism. They like the fact that, in dealing with the > news, we dig deeply into issues of economics, sociology, > politics, science, technology, ecology, culture and > ideology. They want to understand the complexities of the > global economy, and what it means for the world in which we > live. They want to know about new problems emerging in our > societies, about the strategies of the world’s major powers, > and about the new kinds of conflicts that are shaking the > world’s major regions. > > This is the logic underlying our efforts in the past few > years to build foreign-language editions and partnerships > with newspapers outside France. Le Monde diplomatique is now > published on a monthly basis in seven different national > editions: in Italy with Il Manifesto; in Germany with > Tageszeitung; in Switzerland with WochenZeitung; in Spain > with the publisher L-Press; in Mexico with Editorial Sans > Frontières; in Greece with the daily Eleftherotypia; and in > the Arab world with the Beirut daily An-Nahar. The newspaper > is also available on the Internet in a Japanese version > published out of Tokyo. In addition, our bimonthly magazine > Manière de Voir is published in both Greek and Portuguese. A > printed English edition is long overdue to complement the > existing Internet and email editions. > > This is a major project. We believe it promises well for the > future. And within this continuing activity we attach the > greatest importance to the success of our collaboration with > The Guardian. > > IGNACIO RAMONET > Director of Le Monde diplomatique > >
