A new information website has launched Monday, February 28. Atlantico is defined as "a facilitator of access to information". Besides the production of articles produced by a team of a dozen journalists, the site provides online contributions from experts or editors. Atlantico will also offer links to other sites: "If something is dealt with elsewhere, why remake it? These make the link", justifies the publication director, Jean-Sebastien Ferjou.
It cites as a model the Huffington Post, a news aggregator site created by the U.S. Arianna Huffington, who has been bought by AOL for $ 315 million and inspiring thousands of Web entrepreneurs. The capital of Atlantico is 51% owned by the founders - Jean-Sebastien Ferjou, Pierre Guyot, Loïc Rouvin and Igor Daguia.
The remaining 49% belong to Free Minds, an investment holding company which include the businessman Charles Beigbeder, Marc Simoncini, Meetic founder, Xavier Niel, founder of Free and shareholder in a minority of the world, and that Arnaud Dassier, founder of advertising agency The Enchanting Media, who ran the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy on the Web in 2007.
The total investment amounts to one million euros. The main shareholder is Jean-Sebastien Ferjou, which has invested EUR 30 000. The goal is to reach the threshold of 600,000 unique visitors per month within a year. "LIBERALISM CAPITALISM AND ARE NOT BIG WORDS". Each day, Altantico offer a selection of articles entitled the "ten nuggets of the Web", paper decryption news, news wire, and subjects people, grouped under the heading "Atlantico Light".
Among its contributors, there are the names of the philosopher Chantal Delsol, Amirouche Laidi, president of Club Averroes, the ruler Paul-Marie knife and writer Gerard de Villiers. Facing online news sites, called "pure players", mostly located on the left (Rue 89, Mediapart, Freeze), Atlantico is often described as "right".
Jean-Sebastien Ferjou reject this label. He said the site name does not come from a biased pro-Atlanticist American, but a contraction between two titles in the American press that he particularly enjoys: revueThe the Atlantic and the political news website Politico. The editor refuses to be located "in a grid, into a mold," but cowardly, for him, "liberalism and capitalism are not bad words." The site managers are more in the world of audio-visual media: LCI for Jean-Sebastien Ferjou BFM to the editor Jean-Baptiste Giraud.
Their bias is to first create a site for the general public, they say. 
It cites as a model the Huffington Post, a news aggregator site created by the U.S. Arianna Huffington, who has been bought by AOL for $ 315 million and inspiring thousands of Web entrepreneurs. The capital of Atlantico is 51% owned by the founders - Jean-Sebastien Ferjou, Pierre Guyot, Loïc Rouvin and Igor Daguia.
The remaining 49% belong to Free Minds, an investment holding company which include the businessman Charles Beigbeder, Marc Simoncini, Meetic founder, Xavier Niel, founder of Free and shareholder in a minority of the world, and that Arnaud Dassier, founder of advertising agency The Enchanting Media, who ran the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy on the Web in 2007.
The total investment amounts to one million euros. The main shareholder is Jean-Sebastien Ferjou, which has invested EUR 30 000. The goal is to reach the threshold of 600,000 unique visitors per month within a year. "LIBERALISM CAPITALISM AND ARE NOT BIG WORDS". Each day, Altantico offer a selection of articles entitled the "ten nuggets of the Web", paper decryption news, news wire, and subjects people, grouped under the heading "Atlantico Light".
Among its contributors, there are the names of the philosopher Chantal Delsol, Amirouche Laidi, president of Club Averroes, the ruler Paul-Marie knife and writer Gerard de Villiers. Facing online news sites, called "pure players", mostly located on the left (Rue 89, Mediapart, Freeze), Atlantico is often described as "right".
Jean-Sebastien Ferjou reject this label. He said the site name does not come from a biased pro-Atlanticist American, but a contraction between two titles in the American press that he particularly enjoys: revueThe the Atlantic and the political news website Politico. The editor refuses to be located "in a grid, into a mold," but cowardly, for him, "liberalism and capitalism are not bad words." The site managers are more in the world of audio-visual media: LCI for Jean-Sebastien Ferjou BFM to the editor Jean-Baptiste Giraud.
Their bias is to first create a site for the general public, they say.
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