We used to see Eric Fottorino launch a new press title every year: Zadig in 2019, Legend in 2020 (the last issue of which is dedicated to Charles de Gaulle). But nothing in 2021 whenAmerica logically lowered the curtain since it depicted Trump’s America.
For 2022, no news on newsstands, it’s on the digital side that you have to look. the 1 Weekly launches its application this Monday, January 17. “Seven years after the birth of the newspaper, it was time! We were born in the paper with this idea that the experience of press, information, decryption came by this strange format but now we have gathered a large community: more 35,000 shoppers every week. Having an app just made sense.”, explains Eric Fottorino, co-founder of the weekly.
With the app, it is aimed at young people, even if a third of the weekly’s readers are under 20 years old. On their smartphone and tablet, they now have access to content everywhere, 24 hours a day, for 0.99 euros the first month and 7.99 the following months.
“Subscribers will find the contents of ‘1’, the 400 issues released since the beginning, all our archives are accessible, plus specific content.”
Eric Fottorinoon franceinfo
Good news at the start of the year: the 1 weekly now has its application!
Enjoy more flexibility in accessing your newspaper, and read the 1 weekly anywhere, anytime: https://t.co/jajC42rpJq
We tell you a little more ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/iaubVmbACB— The 1 (@Le1hebdo) January 17, 2022
The press boss, who is keen to keep his independence, will be heard in the Senate on Friday January 21, like all his counterparts, on media concentration. A sensitive subject with the approach of the presidential election, when a handful of billionaires control the biggest French press titles. Vincent Bolloré, Bernard Arnault, Arnaud Lagardère, Patrick Drahi among others are also summoned.
“It is a worried look that I take on this situation, this hyper-concentration of the media. It already means that most media are not able to have a profitable economic model without the presence in their capital of these billionaires, it still poses a problem for our business: why can’t we have a profitable business without them? This is not our case at ‘1’ but I don’t know what the future will be do…
“And that also poses a problem in terms of content, on influence.”
Eric Fottorinoat franceinfo
Of course, they are not stupid, they do not get their hands on the content directly, although Bolloré, we have seen him censor documentaries… But that poses a real problem of pluralism. I think that when you are under the control of a shareholder who gives money, you are obliged to take his interests into account, and the interests of the shareholder are twofold: political and industrial. That said, the current law has had the effect of under-capitalizing the media, they have never been able to have a financial mass that allows them to be independent.” says Eric Fottorino.
Also a writer, Eric Fottorino will soon have the honor of television. His novel Buckshot was adapted into fiction by director Laëtitia Masson, with a broadcast on February 11 on Arte.
And from January 21, his text catch of the day, appeared in the 1 , will be read by Jacques Weber at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris. “It is a dialogue between a fisherman who fishes for dead migrants and someone who wants to buy them or redeem them. I note that this theme of migrants is one of the major absentees from the campaign at this stage”, concludes Eric Fottorino.