Mediapart
Mediapart is a French subscription-based digital news outlet known for its investigative journalism, particularly into politics and corruption. Independent and entirely reader-funded, it relies on subscriptions rather than advertising. Generally regarded as left-leaning, it has been associated with several high-profile investigations into French public and political life over the years.
Mediapart at a glance
- Country
- France
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 2008
- Owner
- Fonds pour une presse libre, a non-profit endowment
- Published from
- Paris
- Website
- mediapart.fr ↗
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How Crosswire groups Mediapart
Crosswire groups Mediapart as Left-leaning for comparisons within France's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In France, Le Monde and Le Parisien are listed as Centrist, while Le Figaro and Le Point are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Mediapart beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Mediapart sits in France's press
Mediapart was founded in 2008, is published from Paris and is owned by Fonds pour une presse libre, a non-profit endowment. It is one of 11 outlets tracked in France and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, France ranks third of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 31 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Mediapart outside France, starting with Western Europe, are Nova.rs (Serbia), SDK.mk (North Macedonia), Exit.al (Albania) and Altaveu (Andorra). Opening one of them beside Mediapart is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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