About France-Amérique
HISTORY
From a weekly newspaper to a monthly magazine
France-Amérique is published by FrancePress LLC, a privately owned company headquartered in New York with offices in San Francisco and Paris. The company was acquired in July 2005 by Louis F. Kyle.
Founded in 1943 by World War II France Libre exiles, France-Amérique became the international weekly edition of the French daily newspaper Le Figaro in the 1960s. In 2007, France-Amérique merged with the Journal Français, the largest French-language journal published in America since 1978, giving birth to a new bi-weekly publication. In May 2008, France-Amérique underwent a final revamp with the launch of a monthly magazine-style edition.
EDITORIAL PROFILE
France-Amérique, also known as Le Journal Francais des États-Unis, is America’s largest and only nationwide French-language publication, serving an audience of French expatriates, Francophones and French-speaking Americans.
France-Amérique serves as an integral link between the United States and France. Each monthly issue provides an extensive review of French current events and the latest trends, profiles of influential French personalities, an insider’s look at the French cultural scene, in-depth history features, and coverage of French life in the U.S. from coast to coast.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Editor-in-Chief Jean-Cosme Delaloye began his career as a journalist with the Swiss daily 24heures on the international politics beat, covering stories across the globe. Named American correspondent in 2002 for 24heures and the Geneva Tribune, he opened a bureau for both papers in New York. For several years, he covered American politics and the United Nations while specializing in feature reporting, collaborating with the American photographers Tim McKulka, Jarin Blaschke and Daniella Zalcman. Founder of the press agency the.point.is., he is also the co-director of a documentary entitled Rodéo des Condamnés (Razor Wire Rodeo). His mission statement: Apply journalistic rigueur to perfectly angled, clear and precisely illustrated subjects.
Assistant Editor-in-Chief Danielle Delaloye-Suter is the co-founder of the press agency the.point.is. She began her career with Edipresse Publications where she contributed to the website edicom.ch before joining the paper 24heures. From there Ms. Delaloye-Suter went to CB Communications where she was the director of the magazines Skippers and 30Degrès. She has also contributed to the womens magazines Marie-Claire and Edelweiss and specializes in fashion and society reporting.
Associate Editor Johanna Safar worked for more than a decade as a writer and associate editor for several French regional dailies, including Paris-Normandie and Centre-Presse. She has worked in London for an English news agency, and in Tokyo where she contributed to several local magazines.
Journalist Oumelkheir Djenaidi holds a Master’s degree from the Journalism School at Sciences-po Paris. She has freelanced for various French media outlets including TF1, BFM TV, CAPA and the Parliamentary channel. More recently, she has contributed to the Transcontinental Press Agency and the Agence France-Presse.
CIRCULATION
France-Amérique is America’s largest French-language magazine with a print circulation of 25,000 copies and over 65,000 readers per issue, including 15,000 paid subscribers. France-Amérique reaches French expatriates, Francophones and French-speaking Americans nationwide.
Sold by subscription across the United States, France-Amérique is also available at approximately 400 newsstands nationwide and distributed in the airport lounges of Air France, American Airlines and Continental Airlines, as well as at major Francophile organizations and targeted events nationwide, including film festivals, Bastille Day fêtes and Beaujolais Nouveau celebrations. Updated daily, france-amerique.com, attracts over 50,000 unique visitors per month.
FRANCE-AMERIQUE.COM
France-amerique.com is an indispensable and up-to-date online resource for Francophones and Francophiles alike, who want to stay on top of French news, culture and art-de-vivre on both sides of the Atlantic. Our recently revamped website provides the latest French-American headline news, exclusive interviews of French-American leaders, an insider’s look at French cultural and community life in the U.S., and practical information for French people and other French speakers living in the U.S. The site attracts over 50,000 unique visitors and counts 150,000 page views per month – and traffic is growing rapidly.
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FRANCEPRESS
France-Amérique is published by FrancePress LLC, a private company owned and operated by Louis F. Kyle, a 26-year veteran of the publishing industry who has served as the president of the Internet Division of Trader Classified Media, Group Publisher at Ziff Davis France, president of the Cobb Group Europe, and owner and publisher of the Asian Edition of Women’s Wear Daily.
FrancePress LLC is the only independent media voice in the United States devoted exclusively to France. Its two periodicals, France-Amérique and France Today, provide readers with in-depth coverage on French news, culture, politics, and travel destinations, in both French and English, with a total print audience of over 100,000 readers per month.
FRANCEPRESS also reaches 80,000 online readers per month. Both redesigned recently, www.france-amerique.com and www.francetoday.com,which attract 50,000 and 15,000 unique visitors per month respectively, give readers a glimpse at what’s covered in print and also offer web-exclusive features. Le Petit Journal, the weekly e-mail newsletter of France Today and France-Amérique, and the weekly France-Amérique eNewsletter are read by 15,000 subscribers.
