{"id":7341,"date":"2026-06-25T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/?p=7341"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:44:56","slug":"indigo-fete-ses-45-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/indigo-fete-ses-45-ans\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo turns 45"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1981: where it all began<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Flashback: it\u2019s the early 1980s. CNN is revolutionizing TV with 24-hour news, the world is dancing to David Bowie, John McEnroe gets his revenge at the US Open, and Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand is elected President of France\u2026
Out of this buzz and well off the beaten track, Indigo Publications was created.
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At the time, Paris-based newsletters tended to target the Parisian inner circle, viewing global events through a purely French lens.
In 1981, Maurice Botbol chose a different path and launched La Lettre de l'oc\u00e9an Indien. His goal: to cover East Africa from offshore and publish articles simultaneously in both French AND English.
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Understanding the world isn't about watching it from Paris \u2014 and that's how 'The world's smallest international media group' came to be.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Anticipation at the core of our investigations for 45 years<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Since its creation in 1981, Indigo Publications has stood out for its ability to anticipate strategic developments, both in France and internationally, by investigating at the heart of closed sectors\u2014far from press releases and official statements.<\/p>

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Through a series of testimonials, Maurice Botbol, Sophie Lecluse, and Philippe Vasset reflect on the major investigations that have shaped our publications in recent years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Independent media under pressure<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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DDoS attacks, arrests, financial pressures\u2026 Quentin Botbol, Philippe Vasset, Octave Bonnaud, and S\u00e9bastien De Marchi recount the threats our journalists and publications face to shed light on what those in power prefer to keep in the dark.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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By nature, we ruffle feathers, and our investigations are regularly targeted in various ways.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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1981, l\u2019ann\u00e9e o\u00f9 tout a commenc\u00e9 Flashback : nous sommes au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 80. CNN r\u00e9volutionne la TV avec l’info en continu, la plan\u00e8te danse sur David Bowie, John McEnroe prend sa revanche \u00e0 l’US Open, Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand est \u00e9lu Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique\u2026 C\u2019est dans cette effervescence, loin des sentiers battus, qu\u2019Indigo Publications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigo.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}