Le Monde showcases Decision News Media's Editorial team 11/7/2008 -Leading French newspaper Le Monde features Decision News Media's editorial team in an article about business life in Montpellier. The article highlights the native-English speakers who populate the company's websites with independent, top quality, breaking news serving the sectors of food and nutrition, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Le Monde's article celebrates the island of English-speaking journalists living and working in Montpellier; capital of the Languedoc. The prospect of working on leading business-to-business websites in the congenial climate of southern France draws overseas journalists, the publication tells its daily hard copy audience of 2m readers.
The article, also published on the newspaper's website which attracts 9m unique visitors, reports that the company's co-founders and joint managing directors Franck Metzger and Jean-Marc Cocogne considered siting the company in Nice before choosing Montpellier.
The city is a particularly attractive location for English speaking journalists with its high population of English speakers and budget flights to Britain courtesy of Ryanair, according to the report.
Decision News Media's news room, with its complement of overseas journalists generating online articles for such flagship titles as FoodNavigator.com, is more likely to be found in a world media capital such as London rather than Languedoc, says Le Monde.
