“Le Télégramme de Brest”, the Breton daily newspaper with sailing and music

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MEDIA LETTER. From the Route du rhum to the Francofolies, via the HelloWork platform, the regional daily has successfully diversified.

Pair Olivier Ubertalli

The Route du rhum is one of the many diversification activities in which the Breton daily has invested.
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Published on 29/10/2022 at 11:00 a.m.

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QWho said print media was dying? In Gaul, in a Brittany dominated by the all-powerful West Francea fiercely secular newspaper resists from Finistère: The Telegram from Brest. This regional daily was founded after the war on the ashes of The Dispatch from Brest and the Westwhich had been directed from its launch in 1884 by Louis Coudurier, then from 1925 by his son Marcel Coudurier, grandfather of the current CEO of the Telegram, Édouard Coudurier, and his older brother Hubert, director of information. In 1944, the former mayor of Brest from the Radical Party, Victor Le Gorgeu, and Marcel Coudurier, who had been sent to Fresnes prison and then placed under house arrest because of his opposition to the Vichy government, created the newspaper based in Morlaix (and…

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