Le Monde Twenty Years Later

The political section ranks high as an editorial priority in the regional daily press and is considered “profitable” in terms of prestige. Observation of the day-to-day practices of political journalists at Le Monde, with Jean Padioleau’s study from the early eighties as a comparison, shows how much this status as a “noble” section was undermined in the nineties. The author examines how the appearance of a new journalistic “rhetoric” reflects a renewal of writing processes and of journalistic representations and practices inscribed in a balance of power between categories of journalists.