France: Press Subsidies—Inefficient but Enduring

France: les aides à la presse, inefficaces mais maintenues

Matthieu Lardeau (1) , Patrick Le Floch (2)

1 CRCGM - Centre de Recherche Clermontois en Gestion et Management
2 IEP Rennes - Sciences Po Rennes - Institut d'études politiques de Rennes

The French press has been facing significant economic problems over time. It is called to be in a state of agony or severe and chronic crisis at least. No wonder then that the French State has been intervening into its print media sector rather generously and at length. It would probably not have survived without the many forms of state-mandated cash handouts to keep its ailing print media industry afloat. However, as the title of our chapter indicates, many of these current state subsidies are more than controversial and thus needed to be analysed carefully and in depth.

Mots clés: France; State aids; State subsidies

Domaines: Gestion et management; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Matthieu Lardeau, Patrick Le Floch. France: Press Subsidies—Inefficient but Enduring. Paul Murschetz State Aid for Newspapers - Theories, Cases, Actions., Springer, pp.195-214, 2013, Media Business and Innovation, 978-3-642-35691-9. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-35691-9_13⟩. ⟨halshs-01290903⟩