Le Monde Launches English Website on Eve of French Election
- French newspaper will target online readers in the U.S.
- Le Monde aims to reach 1 million subscribers in three years
Le Monde’s English-language website,
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French newspaper Le Monde is launching an English version of its website on Thursday to win over international subscribers in the runup to a potentially volatile presidential election.
The leading French daily, with 425,000 digital subscribers to date, plans to reach 1 million paying readers in the next two to three years, with a quarter of them reading the English version, Le Monde’s chairman said in an interview with Bloomberg this week.