Benoit Raphael

Current

• Editor-in-chief at Le Post.fr at Le Monde Interactif

Past

• Innovation director at Le Dauphine Libere
• Second chief editor at Vaucluse Matin

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• My Company

Benoit Raphael’s Summary

- I'm the editor-in-chief of Lepost.fr, a web-based news site launched in 2007 by the french press group Le Monde.
As a participative media, Lepost.fr experiments with the future of online news.

- I also own a professionnal blog (in french) : a conversation about innovations in newspapers.

Benoit Raphael’s Specialties:

journalism, management, web 2.0, branding and identity

Benoit Raphael’s Experience

• Editor-in-chief at Le Post.fr

  Le Monde Interactif

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Lepost.fr traffic:
  
  - Nielsen february 2008: 610.000 unique visitors
  - Nielsen august 2008: 1,25 million unique visitors.
  - Nielsen july 2009: 2,5 million unique visitors.
  - Nielsen september 2009: 3,2 million unique visitors (+103% in one year)

• Innovation director

  Le Dauphine Libere

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  May 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Project manager, in charge of new medias strategies for the company.
  I launched "quelcandidat.com" the first participative media with news both from journalists and "citizen journalists" in France.
  Launched in February by Dauphine Libere, quelcandidat.com was a Web2.0 news website for the presidential elections.
  In 2 months, the website made 15 millions pages viewed and 1,5 million visitors (about 35.000 visitors a day).
  DL Websites (2006/2007) : + 300%

• Second chief editor

  Vaucluse Matin

  (Newspapers industry)

  January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  We were here to help the newspaper to stop losing audience and circulation, and to reorganize the newsroom.
  In January 2005, when we started, circulation rate was : - 5%. In November 2006 : + 17%. Progression betwen 2005 and 2006 : +2.5%

Additional Information

Benoit Raphael’s Websites:

• My Company

Benoit Raphael’s Honors:

Best french blog about medias 2009 (http://www.challenges.fr/actualites/high_tech/20090624.CHA4904/classement_des_blogs_de_challenges__les_gagnants.html)