News and tech media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for oil and gas
The Guardian contacted 11 major organizations that run fossil-fuel ads after Wednesday’s speech by António Guterres
May 2024
‘Impunity is growing’: French celebrities call for law to crack down on sexism and sexual violence
Writers, actors, journalists and politicians published petition in Le Monde after learning 94% of complaints were dismissed in 2022
April 2023
Burkina Faso expels reporters from two French newspapers
Le Monde and Libération correspondents sent home in junta’s latest move against media from former colonial power
July 2022
New words in French dictionaries show ‘great suppleness’ of language
Pandemic and climate crisis account for most new entries in authoritative Le Robert and Larousse dictionaries
April 2022
Le Monde launches digital English language edition, partly translated by AI
French daily newspaper’s initiative is part of its mission to double its subscriber base by 2025
December 2020
Brexit deal greeted with relief by European media
Many welcome 11th-hour agreement, with some hoping it marks the end of anti-European sentiment
October 2020
Russia says it and Turkey urge end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh
Russia says two countries’ foreign ministers have found common ground after French journalists injured during shelling
August 2020
WhatsApp spyware attack: senior clergymen in Togo among activists targeted
Bishop from Togo among 1,400 individuals alerted by WhatsApp to malware attack
December 2019
'Brutal, packed with untruths, uninspiring': European press on UK election
Socialism or Brexit? Britain is divided in two in a ‘Hamlet-like dilemma’, write Europe’s newspapers
October 2019
'Dirty tricks expected': How Europe's media reacted to calling of UK election
Irish Times says ‘Brexit election’ will be like no other while El País calls it ‘second referendum’
September 2019
'A monumental blow': European papers respond to Boris Johnson's defeat in court
Le Monde journalists warn of threat to editorial independence
March 2019
European media greet May's defeat with Groundhog Day fatigue
PM’s hoarseness symbolises the UK being left voiceless by Brexit, says France’s Le Monde
August 2018
People's Vote seeks to sway EU politicians with 'blind Brexit' poll
French and German media given poll showing support for second referendum could grow
October 2016
Facebook censors Le Monde's mammogram screening photo
Social networking company apologises after picture of woman having mammogram with her breast exposed falls foul of its anti-nipple policy
August 2016
Greenslade
Why we should publish the photographs of Isis terrorists
Roy Greenslade
French media outlets that are refusing to publish pictures of perpetrators are wrong to indulge in self-censorship, which will have no practical benefit
July 2016
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Print still has a future, and Le Monde can prove it. Aux armes, citoyens!
Peter Preston
Time to stop publishing photos and names of terrorists
February 2016
How the European press covered Boris Johnson's Brexit battle cry
Continental media highlight the domestic political ambitions at play in London mayor’s decision to back UK’s withdrawal from the EU
July 2015
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Le Monde: a Paris referendum with Greek dressing
Peter Preston
Alexis Tsipras take note: staff at France’s best newspaper rejected the owners’ choice of editorial director. Then they were told to vote again – and accepted
