Editing Paris Match (section)

==History and profile==
A sports news magazine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&collapsing=disabled&query=(arkPress+all+%22cb32812178x_date%22)#resultat-id-1|title=p1 - Your search - List of results At number : 542 Results - Gallica|website=gallica.bnf.fr}}</ref> ''Match l'intran'' (a play on ''[[L'Intransigeant]]''), was launched on 9 November 1926 by [[Léon Bailby]]. It was acquired by the [[Louis Louis-Dreyfus|Louis-Dreyfus]] group in 1931 and then by the industrialist [[Jean Prouvost]]<ref name=aud/> in 1938. Under Prouvost the magazine expanded its focus beyond sports, to a format reminiscent of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'': ''Le Match de la vie'' ("The Match of Life") and then ''Match, l'hebdomadaire de l'actualité mondiale'' ("Match, the weekly of world news"). Following the outbreak of [[World War II]] it became ''Match de la guerre'' ("Match of War") in October 1939. Selling for 2 francs a copy, it reached a circulation of 1.45 million by November.  Publication was halted on 6 June 1940, during the [[Battle of France]].

The magazine was relaunched in 1949 with a new name, ''Paris Match''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical development of the media in France|url=http://www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335236220.pdf|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education|access-date=24 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225005455/http://www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335236220.pdf|archive-date=25 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The magazine temporarily ceased publication between 18 May and 15 June 1968 upon the call for a strike by the Syndicat du Livre, the French printers' union.<ref name=aud>{{cite journal|author=Audrey Leblanc|title=The Color of May 1968|journal=Études Photographiques|date=November 2010|volume=26|url=http://etudesphotographiques.revues.org/3456|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref>

In 1976, [[Daniel Filipacchi]] purchased the ailing ''Paris Match''.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 September 1976 |title=A Top French Publisher Purchases Paris-Match |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/02/archives/a-top-french-publisher-purchases-parismatch.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820134959/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/02/archives/a-top-french-publisher-purchases-parismatch.html |archive-date=20 August 2023 |access-date=20 August 2023}}</ref> It continues to be one of France's most successful and influential magazines. It is published weekly and was until October 2024 part of [[Hachette Filipacchi Médias]],<ref name=mor>{{cite web|title=Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)|url=http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/top50finance.pdf|publisher=Magazine Organization|access-date=13 December 2014|format=Report}}</ref> which is itself owned by the [[Lagardère Group]].<ref>Madjar, Robert (1997). ''Daniel Filipacchi''.  Editions Michel Lafon.</ref>

On occasion, ''Paris Match'' has sold more than one million copies worldwide when covering major events, such as the first flight by a French [[astronaut]], [[Patrick Baudry]], aboard the U.S. [[Space Shuttle]] [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]] in June 1985. [[Benoît Clair]], a senior writer for ''Paris Match'', was the first journalist allowed to join the shuttle crew members from training until the departure for the launch pad at [[Cape Canaveral]]. A series of reports on the training was published in ''Paris Match'' on 22 April 1985, 17 June 1985 and 20 January 1986.<ref>Baudry, Patrick (1985). "Aujourd'hui le soleil se lève 16 fois" avec Benoit Clair. Editions Michel Lafon.</ref>

As of 1996 the magazine has adopted an independent political stance.<ref name=Humphreys1996/>

In February 2024, it was publicly disclosed that the luxury brand LVMH is in talks to purchase Paris Match from the media conglomerate Lagardère SA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LVMH in Exclusive Talks With Lagardere for Paris Match Magazine |url=https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/lvmh-in-exclusive-talks-with-lagardere-for-paris-match-magazine-1.2039938 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> LVMH purchased the magazine in October of 2024 for €120 million.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Carabin |first=Aurélie |last2=Williams |first2=Stuart |title=LVMH's Bernard Arnault acquires glossy French weekly Paris Match for €120 million |url=https://fortune.com/europe/2024/10/02/lvmhs-bernard-arnault-bollore-paris-match/ |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=Fortune Europe |language=en}}</ref>