France-Amérique Merges with West Coast Rival Journal Français
The New York-based France-Amérique, America’s premier French-language publication, recently merged with it’s west coast rival, the Journal Français of San Francisco. The two papers were united under the France-Amérique banner in the April 12, 2007 edition. The new title, redesigned in a tabloid format, features the travel and cultural coverage of Journal Français while continuing to print content from Le Figaro, the main right-leaning French newspaper of which France-Amérique was the international edition. Louis Kyle, Publisher and CEO of parent company FrancePress LLC, told the press that France-Amérique “will continue to feature an even wider assortment of timely news analysis and features from our team of distinguished journalists based in the United States and France as well as relevant news from Le Figaro.” FrancePress revamped its glossy monthly France Today last year, while hiring the reknowned J. C. Suares to reshape the fortnightly France-Amérique. Suares previously worked on the redesigns of New York magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, and Hollywood’s Variety trade newspaper. The new France-Amérique, which will continue to be edited from New York, features new sections. La Quinzaine (”the fortnight”) contains news articles from Le Figaro as well as original content depicting events of the previous two weeks. Food, travel, literature, film, history, and fashion are covered in the new Culture section, while the round-up of American events for Francophones and Francophiles continues as La Vie Franco-Americaine. The Accent Français column on French grammar and language from Journal Français is continued in the new paper. Under its veteran editor Pascale Richard in New York, France-Amérique now also has bureaus in San Francisco and Paris. Richard said of the merger that his “team of full-time and independent journalists from across America as well as in France is excited about bringing the kind of news analysis and feature and lifestyle stories that will delight both our native French readers as well as our American Francophile friends and French language teachers and academics across the U.S.A.” With the increase in size, the cover price of France-Amérique jumps from $1.50 to $3.50, while a year’s subscription of twenty-three issues costs $50. Sadly, France-Amérique’s new nameplate is no longer in the same distinctive typeface of Le Figaro, nor does it any longer proudly proclaim “Édition internationale du Figaro” but rather describes the paper as “le journal français des États-Unis”. America’s French-language media began with the Gazette Française et Americaine, printed in New York from 1796 until 1799. The weekly Courrier des États-Unis began in 1828, was printed daily from 1851 to 1931, and later merged into France-Amérique. France-Amérique itself was founded in 1943 as the American mouthpiece of General de Gaulle’s Free French government-in-exile. — Andrew Cusack
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