France

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Staff at French business newspaper La Tribune have decided to suspend a strike begun in protest over a deal by owner LVMH (LVMH.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) to sell the paper, trade unions said on Monday. "Staff at La Tribune, who have been on strike since November 29, have just voted (72 percent) to suspend their movement," the unions said in a statement. Luxury goods...

Staff at Les Echos, France's top financial daily, have gone on strike for the third time in three weeks to protest against the possible sale of their title to luxury group Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy by UK owner Pearson. The latest strike comes as Bernard Arnault, the LVMH chief executive and chairman, said today he would guarantee Les Echos's editorial independence if he bought it. Journalists at...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined protests against the closure of the French-language daily Cambodge Soir and voiced its solidarity with the 30 newspaper employees who face losing their jobs. According to local reports, on June 12, only a day after Cambodge Soir journalists launched a strike protesting the unfair dismissal of news editor, Soren Seelow, management...

LONDON: Journalists at Les Echos, a French financial daily, walked off the job Tuesday, stopping publication of Wednesday editions, as Pearson, its British owner, confirmed that it was considering a sale of the newspaper. Pearson declined to name the interested party or parties, but a union representative at Les Echos, Katty Cohen, said journalists assumed that the potential buyer was Bernard...

CHICAGO: When a big-city newspaper's circulation starts falling in the United States, reporters and editors fret about impending layoffs. But apparently when circs go south in France, it's the journalists who do the firing. As Kim Wilsher, reporting in Paris for The Guardian in Manchester, U.K., writes Wednesday, the reporters and editors voted to dismiss the chairman of Le Monde, the Parisian...

A French court Thursday cleared satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in a case brought by Muslims who were angered by its publication of caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. The court’s decision is being seen as a major victory for free speech in France. Philippe Val, chief editor of the French satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo", speaks with the media in Paris March 22, 2007. A French court ruled in...

Le Monde, the highbrow French daily, has finally decided to get its act together and go in for a facelift to start with. It has launched its first major editorial redesign in a decade with emphasis on bigger photographs, more colour, larger typefaces, and fewer articles to hold on to its steadily eroding base of readers and advertisers. The day after The traditional Le Monde was last redesigned in...