le monde in english. now, elvire, welcome to the programme. le monde is almost 80 years old. why has it onlyjust decided to launch an english language edition? well, i do agree that it s about time, and it actually does feel quite natural to most of the newsroom to do it. we have been translating quite a few of our stories now and again into english, but it s been for like major investigations. for instance, back in 2013, we did translate one investigation we did about two of ourjournalists being witness to one of bashar al assad s chemical attacks in syria. we translated an editorial about what we call the dangers of brexit in 2019. and so, we ve always been willing to sort of broaden our audience and to make ourjournalism accessible to more people. ok, so you ve been going down
people out there. and what brexit has showed as well is that there is a demand for news about europe in english from a non british perspective. and if they can tap into that, it could be very, very successful. but various people have tried this over the years with mixed success. yeah, i was going to ask, has it been tried before? what s happened ? i mean, for example, we ve got der spiegel, which has had an online english language edition from germany for a number of years now, and spiegel is germany s leading news magazine and is incredibly well regarded in germany. but the english language edition has had some great successes, but also been hamstrung by poor translation, misunderstanding of the kind of editorial line that they need to take, cultivating subscribers, all the things that you need to do to really make it viable as anything other than a status symbol. right. elvire, i m sure you don t plan to make any of those mistakes, but any reaction to what dominic has said? well, i t
and in cricket, joe root steps down as england men s test captain after five years in the role. at 10pm, there ll be a full round up of the day s news. first, the media show. hello. unless you ve been hiding away somewhere, you can t have failed to notice the row that s blown up over the government s proposed privatisation of channel 4. we re going to get the latest on where we re up to with any change of ownership. and we re looking across the channel at the french election and how le monde is launching an english language edition. elvire camus is its editor in chief alvear. just a quick one. what s french for partygate? it s partygate! well, there you go. we will come back to
doing this without having crunched some numbers. they know there are people out there. and what brexit has showed as well is that there is a demand for news about europe in english from a non british perspective. and if they can tap into that, it could be very, very successful. but various people have tried this over the years with mixed success. yeah, i was going to ask, has it been tried before? what s happened ? i mean, for example, we ve got der spiegel, which has had an online english language edition from germany for a number of years now, and spiegel is germany s leading news magazine and is incredibly well regarded in germany. but the english language edition has had some great successes, but also been hamstrung by poor translation, misunderstanding of the kind of editorial line that they need to take, cultivating subscribers, all the things that you need to do to really make it viable as anything other than a status symbol. right. elvire, i m sure you don t plan to make any of
of left field, you know, a fair bit of political scandal around at the moment. if we to get a change of government or a change of leader, you know, a different culture secretary or course, those things could change it. there is likely to be a some sort of rebellion in the commons, i would suggest. but again, it s difficult to put numbers. it s probably about ten backbench mp to have sort of said anything publicly that there s probably more close to 20 who are pretty disgruntled about the whole thing, whether they re prepared. you might get half way towards a decent sort of rebellion. that could build a bit of momentum. but it s hard to see this stopping if number ten and the dcms stick to their guns. 0k, well, stay with us, chris, because i want to turn to another of this week s big stories, the french elections, as we talked about at the beginning, you know, on monday, it was announced that president emmanuel macron had narrowly won the first round of voting, but polls suggest that th