Karl Zero. – REUTERS
It is the current trend, to rely on stars of the small screen to launch print magazines. Even if they are no longer on the air. Thus, after the initiatives embodied by Michel Cymes, Sophie Davant and Stéphane Plaza, it is the turn of journalist Karl Zéro to launch his magazine on Friday. L’Envers des affaires is a quarterly magazine dedicated to long-term investigations, reveal its editors, Télémaque and Burda Bleu.
Surveys detached from current events
Almost twenty years after the True Newsprint, monthly published from 2000 to 2002, the former presenter of True Journal on Canal + renews with the printed press to “make discover what is hidden, what is you, what we are not told and why”, he explains in a press release. On the program of the first issue, of around one hundred pages and printed in 75,000 copies, we will read “extremely detailed” and “voluntarily detached from the news” investigations into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight, “the use of astonishing crystal meth by the army of the Third Reich, the background of the case of serial killer Patrice Alègre… But also a portrait of Michel Fourniret and “an uncompromising hypothesis on the disappearance of the Pisier sisters”, signed Tristane Banon.
A publisher very present on newsstands
Sold for 5.95 euros in newsstands, the review, “a mixture of a book and a newspaper”, will be available in bookstores in a series of works published by Télémaque. It is part of a slew of novelties for Burda Bleu (The New Detective, Flavors, Horoscope, New Witch), a French entity of the German group Hubert Burda Media, which has just launched a biannual on the theme of death, Mortem, and a bimonthly on health, How is it going ?. Last month Burda Bleu also released Silence it grows !, bimonthly devoted to gardening, inspired by the France 5 program and embodied by its presenter Stéphane Marie.