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'''{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}}''' ({{IPA-fr|lə mɔ̃d diplɔmatik}}; meaning "The Diplomatic World",<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-01 |title=Plus de cent vingt mille abonnés |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/12/A/64120 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=fr}}</ref> and shortened as '''Le Diplo''' in [[French language|French]]) is a French monthly [[newspaper]] founded in 1954 offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. {{asof|2023|post=,}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Éditions internationales |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/diplo/int/ |year=2023 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |access-date=19 September 2023 |language=fr}}</ref> there are 33 editions (9 digital-only) in 24 languages worldwide.
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==History==
===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
[[Claude Julien (journalist)|Claude Julien]] became the newspaper's second editor in January 1973. At that time, the circulation of {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} had jumped from 5,000 to 50,000 copies, and would reach, with Micheline Paulet, 120,000 in under 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> 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
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|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/venezuela0803/5.html|access-date=19 February 2015|work=PBS|date=August 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=A.C.|title=The Revolutionary Has No Clothes /Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Farce|date=2009|publisher=Encounter Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1594034459|page=126}}</ref>
Ramonet was succeeded by [[Serge Halimi]] who had a PhD in political science from the [[University of California Berkeley]].<ref name="larrazet"/> In 2018, LMD
The August 2017 issue of the monthly was not marketed in [[Algeria]]. According to sources close to the distributor, the newspaper did not get permission to do so. [[Government of Algeria|Algerian authorities]]
==''Le Monde diplomatique'' SA==
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===Advertising===
Although {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} publishes few [[Advertising|advertisements]] in order to retain its editorial independence, it has sometimes been criticised for the quantity and nature of the published advertisements<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2002/03/A/8481|title=A propos de la publicité|date=2002-03-01|work=Le Monde diplomatique|access-date=2018-01-29|language=fr}}</ref> In November and December 2003, two-page advertisements by [[IBM]] and a car manufacturer were placed. The issues of February and March 2004 contained [[Advertising|advertisements]] by [[Microsoft]] in a "social" atmosphere with a picture of children, which led to agitation.<ref>* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.acrimed.org/article1464.html " Le Monde Diplomatique, publicitaire des multinationales ? "]</ref>
== Communication ==
On February 2, 1995, the newspaper became the first in France to have a presence on the internet.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Monde Diplomatique "ouvre le sur la toile" |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/images_reseaux/Le_Monde_Diplomatique-premier-site-de-presse-en-ligne-en-1995.jpg}}</ref>
{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} has a social media platform dedicated to Friends of {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}}.
The newspaper has the particularity of having very early on digitized on a single DVD-ROM, accessible for purchase, all the articles published in its edition in French since its foundation in 1954, [[German language|German]] (same since 1995), [[English language|English]] (same since 1996), [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (same since 1997), [[Italian language|Italian]] (same since 1997) and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (same since 1999). Since then this voluminous archive has been converted into online access.
The monthly maintains an RSS feed and publishes on the [[Social network|social networks]] [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]].
==Meat Atlas==
[[File:Meat_Atlas_2014_%E2%80%93_Cover.jpg|125px|thumb|alt=Report on meat consumption and meat production|{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} co-publishes the ''[[Meat Atlas]]''.]]
{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} co-publishes the ''[[Meat Atlas]]'', which is an annual report on meat production and consumption.<ref>[http://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/07/meat-atlas Heinrich Böll Foundation, Meat Altas], download [https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/foee_hbf_meatatlas_jan2014.pdf Meat Atlas] as pdf</ref>
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