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Le Journal du Dimanche
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Large tabloid
Owner(s)	Hachette Filipacchi Médias
Founder(s)	Pierre Lazareff
Founded	1948; 76 years ago
Language	French
Headquarters	Paris
Country	France
Circulation	151,007 (2020)
ISSN	0242-3065 (print); 2650-0027 (web)
Website	lejdd.fr
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Le Journal du Dimanche (French pronunciation: [lə ʒuʁnal dy dimɑ̃ʃ]; lit. 'Sunday's newspaper'), also known as the JDD [ʒedede], is a French weekly newspaper published on Sundays in France.

JDD was bought in 2023 by Vivendi of media mogul Vincent Bolloré, triggering a strike movement against the new editorial stance perceived as far-right.^[1]

History and profile

Le Journal du Dimanche was created by Pierre Lazareff in 1948.^[2] He was managing editor of France Soir at that time.^[2]

The weekly paper belongs to the Lagardère Group^[3] through Hachette Filipacchi Médias.^[4] The company is also the publisher of the paper^[5] which is based in Paris^[4] and which is published on Sundays.

Le Journal du Dimanche was published in broadsheet format until 1999 when it began to be published in the Berliner format.^[3] On 6 March 2011 the paper again changed its format to large tabloid format.^[3]

In the period of 2001–2002, Le Journal du Dimanche had a circulation of 275,000 copies.^[5] In 2010, this had decreased slightly to 257,280 copies,^[3] but by 2020, it had dropped to 151,007 copies.^[6]

2023 strike after takeover by Vivendi

On 23 June 2023, days after the takeover of Lagardère group by Vivendi, the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune as editor-in-chief was announced, just a few days after he had been fired from his position as editorial director of the far-right-wing weekly magazine Valeurs Actuelles. This set off a firestorm among the editorial staff, 93% of whom voted to go on strike on 22 June to protest against this potential arrival,^[7] thought to have been engineered by Vincent Bolloré.^[1] One month later, negotiations were broken off again when the Lagardère group confirmed that Lejeune would take over editorial control of the newspaper on 1 August. 98% of the journalists voted to continue the longest strike in the newspaper's history. This vote made the strike longer than the 31-day strike at I-Tele when the latter was transformed into CNews^[1] after being taken over by Canal+, whose oversight committee is also chaired by Bolloré.^[8] The European Commission opened a formal investigation into Vivendi's takeover of Lagardère group on 25 July for potential violation of European Union rules.^[9]

On 1 August, journalists voted to abandon the strike after reaching an agreement on severance terms for those intending to leave the newspaper as a result of the change.^[10]^[11]

It was revealed in June 2024 that 95% of the journalists left the newspaper after the change.^[12]