franceinfo

franceinfo launched in 2016 as a public news channel and is a joint venture of four French public broadcasting bodies — France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde and INA. The partnership rests on the idea of pooling the country's public news resources into a single rolling channel.

The brand originates with the franceinfo radio station founded in 1987, France's first all-news radio and the outlet that introduced the continuous news format to the country. The television channel carries that tradition to screen: a news flow refreshed in short cycles, live links and verification output.

It is publicly funded and carries no advertising. For a reader who wants French domestic affairs straight from a public source, it is the primary channel.