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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Large tabloid |
| Owner | Hachette Filipacchi Médias |
| Founder | Pierre Lazareff |
| Founded | 1948; 78 years ago (1948) |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Circulation | 151,007 (2020) |
| ISSN | 0242-3065 (print) 2650-0027 (web) |
| Website | lejdd |
Le Journal du Dimanche (French pronunciation:[ləʒuʁnaldydimɑ̃ʃ];lit. 'Sunday's newspaper'), also known as theJDD[ʒidede], is a French weekly newspaper published on Sundays in France.
JDD was bought in 2023 byVivendi of media mogulVincent Bolloré, triggering a strike movement against the new editorial stance perceived asfar-right.[1]
Le Journal du Dimanche was created byPierre Lazareff in 1948.[2] He was managing editor ofFrance Soir at that time.[2]
The weekly paper belongs to theLagardère Group[3] throughHachette Filipacchi Médias.[4] The company is also the publisher of the paper[5] which is based in Paris[4] and which is published on Sundays.
Le Journal du Dimanche was published inbroadsheet format until 1999 when it began to be published in theBerliner format.[3] On 6 March 2011 the paper again changed its format tolarge tabloid format.[3]
In the period of 2001–2002,Le Journal du Dimanche had a circulation of 275,000 copies.[5] In 2010, this had decreased slightly to 257,280 copies,[3] but by 2020, it had dropped to 151,007 copies.[6]
On 23 June 2023, days after the takeover of Lagardère group by Vivendi, the appointment ofGeoffroy Lejeune as editor-in-chief was announced, just a few days after he had been fired from his position as editorial director of the far-right-wing weekly magazineValeurs Actuelles. This set off a firestorm among the editorial staff, 93% of whom voted to go on strike on 22 June to protest against this potential arrival,[7] thought to have been engineered byVincent Bolloré.[1] One month later, negotiations were broken off again when the Lagardère group confirmed that Lejeune would take over editorial control of the newspaper on 1 August. 98% of the journalists voted to continue the longest strike in the newspaper's history. This vote made the strike longer than the 31-day strike at I-Tele when the latter was transformed intoCNews[1] after being taken over byCanal+, whose oversight committee is also chaired by Bolloré.[8] The European Commission opened a formal investigation into Vivendi's takeover of Lagardère group on 25 July for potential violation of European Union rules.[9]
On 1 August, journalists voted to abandon the strike after reaching an agreement on severance terms for those intending to leave the newspaper as a result of the change.[10][11]
It was revealed in June 2024 that 95% of the journalists left the newspaper after the change.[12]
95 % des journalistes du JDD – sur une centaine au total – ont par la suite signé une rupture conventionnelle individuelle, mettant fin à un combat soutenu par des ONG, des intellectuels, des forces politiques et des médias.