Editing Le Monde diplomatique (section)

===1954–1989===
{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} was founded in 1954 by [[Hubert Beuve-Méry]], founder and director of {{Lang|fr|[[Le Monde]]}}, the French [[newspaper of record]]. Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations,<ref>''" organe des cercles diplomatiques et des grandes organisations internationales "''</ref>" 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to [[foreign policy]] and [[geopolitics]]. Its first [[editor-in-chief]], {{ill|François Honti|fr}}, developed the newspaper as a scholarly reference journal. Honti attentively followed the birth of the [[Non-Aligned Movement]], created out of the 1955 [[Asian-African Conference|Bandung Conference]], and the issues of the "[[Third World]]".

[[Claude Julien (journalist)|Claude Julien]] became the newspaper's second editor in January 1973. At this point, the circulation of {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} had increased from 5,000 to 50,000 copies; under Julien, and with the help of Micheline Paunet, the paper's circulation would grow to 120,000 in the next 20 years.<ref name="Amis">Numbers given in [http://www.amis.monde-diplomatique.fr/article1342.html "Le Monde diplomatique depuis 1954..."], ''Les Amis du Monde diplomatique'', [[Voluntary association|1901 law association]], 26 September 2006 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Around this time, as ''Le Monde'' shifted its editorial line towards favoring [[neoliberal]] ideology, ''Le Monde Diplomatique'' shifted its focus toward a radical critique of [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan policy]], and criticism of imperialistic liberal policy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Halimi |first1=Serge |last2=Larrazet |first2=Christine |title=At the Crossroads of Media, Media Critique, and the Critique of Media critics – An Interview with Serge Halimi, Editor-in-Chief of Le Monde Diplomatique |url=https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/500 |website=InMedia. The French Journal of Media Studies |access-date=23 January 2025 |language=en |doi=10.4000/inmedia.500 |date=15 November 2012}}</ref> Without renouncing its "[[Third-worldism]]" position, it extended the treatment of its subjects, concentrating on international [[economic]] and [[monetary]] problems, strategic relations, the [[Middle-East conflict]], etc. One of the contributors was [[Samir Frangieh]], a leftist Lebanese journalist.<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Lebanon
|year=2007|location=Beirut|publisher=Publitec Publications|edition=19th|url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945904.476|isbn=978-3-598-07734-0|page=132|doi=10.1515/9783110945904.476 }}</ref>