The Local’s role for international residents in France has become more important than ever, but it’s increasingly difficult to survive in a media landscape dominated by big global tech companies and AI.
A French investigative journalism website said it had been able to authenticate antisemitic messages from 2013 attributed to far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s de facto deputy.
Russian propaganda and pro-Kremlin talking points, once veiled, have become overt in certain sections of the French media, writes John Lichfield. So why have the Putin-supporters come out into the open now, and what does it mean for French politics?
Does French President Emmanuel Macron really want to create a 1984-style 'Ministry of Truth', as his right-wing opponents claim? Not quite, here's what is actually being proposed to fight fake news in France.
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied late on Thursday outside a top French television station to protest the broadcast of an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Gaza war.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether French media group Vivendi breached rules before sealing its acquisition of publishing and retail conglomerate Lagardere.
When they were young they were the heart-throbs of France's small screen but after many rounds of plastic surgery and botox, the controversial Bogdanoff twins came to be considered 'freakish' by many.
Billionaire Vincent Bolloré's bid to shake up the French news media by catering to conservative and right-wing voters is facing resistance from journalists at his next target, one of the country's biggest private radio stations.
A series of issues including attacks on journalists covering protests and a highly controversial new law limiting the filming of police officers has seen France fall two places in the world press freedom index. Now a new report proposes 32 measures to improve the relationship between police and the press.
Under fire from press freedom groups over a draft law seeking to limit the filming of police officers on duty, France's interior minister has drawn further ire by telling journalists wishing to cover demonstrations to alert authorities beforehand.
France on Sunday condemned an "arbitrary" crackdown against the media in Belarus after the accreditation of several journalists working for foreign media was withdrawn in the wake of disputed presidential elections.
Valerie Trierweiler, the ex-girlfriend of former French president François Hollande, said on Thursday that she had been sacked by Paris Match magazine.
France's domestic intelligence service on Wednesday questioned a journalist who broke the story of a scandal that shook President Emmanuel Macron, the latest in a growing number of reporters to be quizzed in a trend that has disturbed press freedom activists.
Armed with his computer and a video camera, former French politician Mike Borowski has emerged as a test case for social media companies under pressure to crack down on "fake news" ahead of next month's European Parliament vote.
Phil Chetwynd was named global news director of Agence France-Presse (AFP) Wednesday, the first non-French person to hold the key post at the country's global news agency.
The French government said on Thursday that it would demand 190 million euros of spending cuts at its public broadcasting operations by 2022 as part of President Emmanuel Macron's pledge to improve state finances.
Russia's state media regulator Roskomnadzor has accused France 24 news channel of violating Russian media laws, after Paris issued a warning to the French arm of Moscow's broadcaster RT
The French presidency announced Wednesday that it is kicking reporters out of the Elysee Palace and down the street in a move that symbolises Emmanuel Macron's desire to keep the media at arm's length.
French newspapers and magazines continue to be handed hundreds of millions of euros in state subsidies each year, despite being owned by billionaires. This largesse is supposed to boost democracy, but its critics argue that it leads to a submissive media, writes Rory Mulholland.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans Wednesday for legislation to stop fake news spreading online in the run-up to elections, in a veiled reference to Moscow-backed RT and Sputnik.
A French court has sentenced a man who wounded a photographer in a shooting in 2013 to 25 years behind bars, in a case that predated the string of jihadist attacks that has since struck the country.
A French appeals court on Friday dealt a blow to two journalists accused of trying to blackmail the king of Morocco by ruling that secret recordings could be used as evidence against them.
