{{Short description|Monegasque daily newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = {{lang|fr|Monaco-Matin}} | logo = Monaco-Matin logo.png | image = | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = | owner = Xavier Niel through NJJ Holding | publisher = {{ill|Groupe Nice-Matin|fr}} | editor = | founded = {{start date and age|1997|12}} | language = French | headquarters = | circulation = | sister_newspapers = {{Plainlist| * ''Nice-Matin'' * ''{{ill|Var-Matin|fr}}'' }} | ISSN = | eISSN = | website = {{URL|monacomatin.mc}} }} '''''Monaco-Matin''''' ({{IPA|fr|mɔnako matɛ̃}}) is a Monegasque daily newspaper established in 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gallien-Lamarche |first=Jean-Alexis |date=June 2013 |title=À Monaco, les journaux ont la cote |url=https://www.clubpresse06.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/intermed06-13.pdf |magazine=Journal Intermed |language=fr |issue=81 |publisher=Club de la Presse Méditerranée 06 |page=19 |issn=2107-7002 |access-date=20 June 2025}}</ref>
==History== Originally published as a special edition of ''Nice-Matin'', ''Monaco-Matin'' was established as an independent newspaper through an agreement between Gérard Bavastro, president of ''Nice-Matin'', and Michel Lévêque, Monaco's Minister of State, on 17 December 1997; its first issue was published on 31 December 1997.<ref>{{cite web |last=Salles |first=Alain |title=Quand la principauté de Monaco subventionne «Nice-Matin» |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1998/02/20/quand-la-principaute-de-monaco-subventionne-nice-matin_3658706_1819218.html |website=Le Monde |access-date=18 June 2025 |language=fr |date=20 February 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Signouret |first=Muriel |title=Un journal bon prince |url=https://www.strategies.fr/actualites/medias/r39475W/un-journal-bon-prince.html |website=Stratégies |access-date=18 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231011416/https://www.strategies.fr/actualites/medias/r39475W/un-journal-bon-prince.html |archive-date=31 December 2014 |language=fr |date=5 January 2006}}</ref>
''Monaco-Matin'' and its sister newspapers, ''Nice-Matin'' and ''{{ill|Var-Matin|fr}}'', are published by {{ill|Groupe Nice-Matin|fr}}. In August 2007, {{ill|Groupe Hersant Média|fr}} acquired the group.<ref>{{cite report |last1=Jenkins |first1=Joy |last2=Nielsen |first2=Rasmus Kleis |year=2018 |title=The digital transition of local news |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f1f8876e-a100-4c20-9f87-3f380630fe92/files/sm326m376w |publisher=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |doi=10.60625/risj-ee0h-x309 |access-date=18 June 2025}}</ref> However, following financial difficulties, the group was sold to an employee cooperative ({{ill|société coopérative d'intérêt collectif|lt=SCIC|fr}}) in November 2014.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lassalle |first1=Isabelle |title=Reprise de Nice-Matin par la coopérative des salariés, soutenue par Bernard Tapie |url=https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/economie-social/reprise-de-nice-matin-par-la-cooperative-des-salaries-soutenue-par-bernard-tapie-1415348870 |website=Ici |access-date=19 June 2025 |language=fr |date=7 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Debouté |first=Alexandre |title=Nice-Matin repris par ses salariés associés à Bernard Tapie |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2014/11/07/20004-20141107ARTFIG00096--nice-matin-repris-par-ses-salaries-associes-a-bernard-tapie.php |website=Le Figaro |access-date=19 June 2025 |language=fr |date=7 November 2014}}</ref> In February 2020, Xavier Niel acquired 100% of the group via his NJJ Holding company.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brun |first=Raphaël |title=Xavier Niel prend le contrôle de Nice-Matin |url=https://monaco-hebdo.com/economie/xavier-niel-achat-nice-matin/ |website=Monaco Hebdo |access-date=19 June 2025 |language=fr |date=20 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite report |last1=Ouakrat |first1=Alan |last2=Sklower |first2=Jedediah |date=June 2024 |title=Le pluralisme des médias en contexte numérique: Application du Media Pluralism Monitor aux États membres de l'Union européenne et aux pays candidats en 2023 |url=https://alanouakrat.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/france_results_mpm_2024_french_cmpf_def.pdf |language=fr |publisher=European University Institute |doi=10.2870/646224 |access-date=18 June 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * List of newspapers in Monaco
==References== {{Reflist}}
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