International Mail

international Courrier is a Hebdomadaire French of Information. He proposes to make discover the press whole world (more than 900 publications) by translating into French a series of articles, as well as the cultures of the whole world (Japanese mentality in each number for example). He also proposes a presentation in some lines of all the quoted newspapers.

History

international Courrier is a publication of the Magazine pole of the group the Life it Monde. Conceived with the autumn 1987 per four Parisian, Jean-Michel Boissier, Herve Lavergne, Maurice Ronai and Jacques Rosselin, it ends up being born on November 8th, 1990, one year after the Chute of the Berlin Wall, thanks to two founding shareholders, Pierre Bergé and Guy de Wouters (the General society of Belgium).

Meanwhile, a number zero was printed to a few hundreds of specimens on June 22nd, 1988. It was financed by the family and friends of the founders, brought together a few months earlier for a basic collection with the Maison of the Latin America (method known as of “the multiplying diary”, tell Maurice Ronai and Jacques Rosselin).

The weekly magazine is sold with 40  000 specimens as of its second delivery and is a success growing, surfant on a very dense international topicality. Indeed, the numbers published during the Guerre of the Gulf, which starts in January 1991, and which translates prohibited Arab newspapers into France, are a great success. These are the international great events which will highlight the interest of the concept: the putsch in Russia described by the Russian journalists, the elections in Algeria seen by the Arab press, the referendum of Maastricht seen by the European press, the election of Clinton anticipated by the American newspapers, etc

The publication was directed until the end of 1994 by Jacques Rosselin, one of its four founders, bachelor less than one year after it had been repurchased by the group Western Générale (a subsidiary company of Alcatel which had in particular the Express train and the Point). The repurchase concluded in March 1994 for the sum from 83 franc million whereas the title was not yet with balance (it reaches it only in 1999). Courrier International was then repurchased by Vivendi, in the batch of the Express train, then by the group Le Monde, which coveted it since its creation. However Bernard Wouts, which was owner of the World, had not answered favorably the requests of the founders, come to visit him in 1989. It ended up becoming the owner about it, via the General Western one that it directed, in 1994.

Today, the newspaper belongs to the World and it is directed by Philippe Thureau-Dangin, entered to the newspaper in 1993. Many employees of the team of origin are still there, the palm of the seniority returning with Hidenobu Suzuki and Kasuhiko Yatabe, which took part in the production of number zero of June 1988.

Diffusion

It reaches a paid diffusion of 187  000 specimens in 2004, for a pulling of 241  000 specimens (source OJD).

Reward

international Courrier was elected Meilleur Magazine of the year Grand Prix of media CB News 2003.

Adaptations abroad

In Portugal

April 2nd, 2005, with Lisbon, , a Portuguese edition related to international Mail , is published for the first time. This publication () reproduced approximately 80   % of the French edition of the same week, adding to it of the articles on Portugal (press not-Portuguese) and its old colonies (Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Divided into volumes São and Timor-Eastern Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, , Brazil) as well as other subjects of interest for the Portuguese public. The director of Correio Internacional is Fernando Madrinha and this title belongs to the Impresa group, of the former Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Balsemão.

In Japan

November 17th, 2005, in Tokyo, Courrier Japan appears for the first time, in Japanese. He is published by the group Kōdansha, under the responsibility of Yoshiaki Koga. He appears one week out of two and present the press of the whole world, in Japanese, in a way appreciably different of International Mail, more adapted to the Japanese taste. Its format and its paper, in particular, are those of a standard magazine, contrary to the International Mail which by these aspects approaches more than one daily newspaper.

To know

  • In Italy, there exists an equivalent weekly magazine: .

  • In its number 784, dated November 10th, 2005, international Mail festival its 15 years of existence through a selection, year per year, of articles among most representative of the events of the year considered.

External bonds

  • the official site of '' international Courrier ''
  • international Mail on the OJD

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