Newspaper Name: |
20 minutes |
Newspaper name in English: |
The Twenty Minutes |
Owner: |
Groupe Rossel, Groupe Sipa-Ouest‑France |
Country / Region: |
France |
Language: |
French |
Format type: |
Newspaper |
Category: |
General |
Political alignment: |
None |
Frequency: |
Daily |
Publication Years (print version): |
2002 — now (21 year) |
Publication Years (digital version): |
2007 — now (16 years) |
Circulation: |
889,000 (2015) |
Official Pages: |
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Official Apps: |
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Website: |
20minutes.fr [read with translation] |
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«20 minutes» — a free daily advertising and information newspaper in French, was founded in 2002 in Paris. At that time, it was the first newspaper with free distribution in France. The name of the newspaper, as conceived by its creators, reflects the time that the average French reader should devote to it every day — «20 minutes».
«20 minutes» is distributed in all major cities of France, including: Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse. The newspaper can be found daily at special counters at public transport stops and train stations, airports, museums, restaurants, and business centers. Each publication contains a lot of interesting local and international news from its own correspondents and borrowed from other publications, various articles of preferential advertising content, interviews and reviews, weather forecast, currency exchange rates, a section with coupons and sales, announcements, horoscope, poster and so on. Newspapers may partially differ in content depending on the distribution region.
The main sections of the newspaper «20 minutes»: Actualité (latest news), Actualités locales (local news), 20 Minutes 20 News (news feed), Monde (review of world events), Économie (Economy), Sports (Sports), Culture (Culture), People (interviews, meetings, discussions), High-Tech (Technologies), Télévision (TV, movies), Métiers (work, career), Pratique (humor, horoscope, crossword puzzle).
The publication exists at the expense of advertising published in it. The main competitor of «20 minutes» today is another free French newspaper «
CNews», which appeared in 2007. The local German version of this newspaper, «
20 Minuten», is published in Switzerland.