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Type | Satirical weekly news magazine |
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Format | Berliner |
Owner(s) | Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau (70%), Éric Portheault (30%)[1] |
Editor | Gérard Biard |
Founded | 1970[2] |
Political alignment | Libertarian |
Ceased publication | 1981 |
Relaunched | 1992 |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
Circulation | ~55,000 (as of September 2020)[3] |
ISSN | 1240-0068 |
Website | CharlieHebdo.fr |
Charlie Hebdo (French: [ʃaʁli ɛbdo]; French for 'Charlie Weekly') is a French satirical weekly magazine,[4] featuring cartoons,[5] reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist,[6] sceptical,[7] secular, libertarian[8] and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism,[9][10] publishing articles about the far-right (especially the French nationalist National Front party),[11] religion (Catholicism, Islam and Judaism), politics and culture.
The magazine has been the target of three terrorist attacks: in 2011, 2015, and 2020. All of them were presumed to be in response to a number of cartoons that it published controversially depicting Muhammad. In the second of these attacks, 12 people were killed, including publishing director Charb and several other prominent cartoonists.
Charlie Hebdo first appeared in 1970 after the monthly Hara-Kiri magazine was banned for mocking the death of former French president Charles de Gaulle.[12] In 1981, publication ceased, but the magazine was resurrected in 1992. The magazine is published every Wednesday, with special editions issued on an unscheduled basis.
Gérard Biard is the current editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo.[13] The previous editors were François Cavanna (1970–1981) and Philippe Val (1992–2009).
Anticipating strong sales, the magazine said it printed 200,000 copies of last week's issue. While before it struggled to stay afloat with weekly sales of 30,000, the first edition after the attacks sold 8 million copies. Weekly sales have now settled back to around 55,000, the magazine said.
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