news bulletin – answers

Journalist strike at French Le Monde

true/false

1. Journalists in France are going on a walk. F: a ‘walkout’ i.e. a strike
2. This is the second ever strike at Le Monde. T
3. The strike is about pay cuts. F: job cuts
4. All of the staff cuts are journalists. F: journalists ‘are included’ this suggests that there are other jobs too
5. Half of the journalists at the paper will have to leave. F: a quarter
6. Loss of advertising revenue is one of the reasons for the cuts. T
7. The crisis is partly due to problems within the organisation. T: it has ‘internal roots’
8. The French press is largely free from problems. F: ‘it is going through a crisis’
9. Le Monde is a very popular newspaper. T: 2 million readers
10. The paper lost 12 million euros last year. F: 20 million euros