Citoyens.com

Citoyens.com is an independent online media outlet dedicated to the news of the Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Grand Paris. It is a generalist local organisation that publishes reports and investigations on politics, economics, society, culture, and citizen initiatives to give a view and understanding of the life and problems of local inhabitants.Before being a media outlet, Citoyens.com was a blog called Nogent-Municipales, created in 2007 by the journalist Cécile Dubois, aiming to follow and discuss Nogent-sur-Marne municipal elections without taking sides. Its origins in the coverage of the municipal elections mark the non-partisan political character of the media's editorial coverage.After the elections, Dubois created the blog Nogent Citoyen to monitor elected representatives and see if they kept their campaign promises. Later, its director, Yann Dubois, developed the technical part of the website on WordPress, and the media outlet was recognised as such in 2010 by the Commission paritaire des publications et agences de presse (CPPAP).However, she soon realised that covering one city of the Parisian suburbs was not enough to make the media outlet a viable business.In 2011, the organisation widened the perimeter of its coverage and created the departmental media outlet 94 Citoyens. The organisation's team started to grow and, in 2014, during the municipal elections, became Citoyens.com. The new media organisation gathered the information from Nogent Citoyen and started reporting in Nogent-sur-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Greater Paris.It currently publishes local news (urban planning, regional development, news, sports, culture, local initiatives, and associations) and provides a participatory calendar of events in the towns it covers.