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Reporting from Paris is your monthly online magazine aimed at a global English-speaking audience with an affinity for and more than a passing knowledge of Paris. Not focused on luxury but on passion: for insights and ideas, facts and fancies, profound thought, and light-hearted whimsy by veteran Paris-based journalists... Real news. Real insights. Real journalists. www.reportingfromparis.fr

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What’s on the News Agenda This Autumn?

La Rentrée is that period in France when summer vacation ends and everyone heads back to work. People still try their best to hang on to that summer vibe by dining out a bit more than usual, meeting friends for a drink on a café terrasse, or sneaking away for a couple more weekends before the end of September. But they can’t avoid the fact that normal life has crept back up on them. For journalists reporting on France, it’s the moment to look at what is likely to make the news in the coming months and make plans to cover it all. To find out more, Reporting from Paris deputy editor Elaine Cobbe speaks to Eleanor Beardsley, Paris correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR); Victor Mallet, senior editor on the Financial Times world desk; and François Picard, host of the France 24 Debate. Elaine Cobbe is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist based in Paris. A former foreign correspondent with CBS News, she has covered many of the major international stories of the past three decades, including the conflicts in Iraq, Kosovo, and Rwanda, and terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, and Barcelona. A regular commentator on French and international politics for news outlets in France and her native Ireland, she is also a researcher and trainer in journalism and trauma. Elaine is a committee member of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris. Subscribe for free. Or pledge a paid subscription at reportingfromparis.fr you want to support us. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reportingfromparis.fr
Aug 13

How Hot Will it Get? France Heats Up

Subscribe for free. Or pledge a paid subscription if you want to support us. France has been hit by a series of heat waves this summer that began in May. There have been searing temperatures across the country. At one point, it was hotter in Brittany and Normandy in northwestern France than down on the Mediterranean coast. The summer has also seen wildfires in many parts of France, particularly in the southwest and the south, but also in the forest at Fontainebleau outside Paris. What can be done about it? Can “fire modeling” help? Reporting from Paris deputy editor Elaine Cobbe speaks to Aurélien Costes, a fire scientist from Bordeaux, and Météo France weather forecaster Olivier Proust. Elaine Cobbe is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist based in Paris. A former foreign correspondent with CBS News, she has covered many of the major international stories of the past three decades, including the conflicts in Iraq, Kosovo, and Rwanda, and terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, and Barcelona. A regular commentator on French and international politics for news outlets in France and her native Ireland, she is also a researcher and trainer in journalism and trauma. Elaine is a committee member of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reportingfromparis.fr
Aug 4

More Tips on Dressing Well and Comfortably in a Heat Wave

France is sweltering through another wave of unprecedented heat. So how are people dressing to keep au frais? Loose-fitting and natural fibers, says one. That way, it you catch a breeze, “it’s fabulous”. Choose cotton, linen, silk, says another. Look at how desert people dress: they’re not in swimwear, they cover all parts of the body. Nothing is ‘fitted’. And how about a light scarf? “It seems a bit mad in 40°C but it just gives a bit of shade.” Hear these tips and more during Edie Twells-Eastwood’s walkabout under the blazing southern sun! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reportingfromparis.fr
Jul 7

SPECIAL REPORT: France & America, 250 Years Together

Once the home of the Duc d’Orléans, the Palais-Royal and its gardens were a hotbed of anti-royalist discussions in the years leading up to the French Revolution. Free from the authority of the Paris police, revelers from all walks of life debated, drank, gambled, and generally misbehaved, without fear of rebuke or worse. The ideas discussed had been around for a while: questioning the divine right of kings to rule; advocating the right to self-determination. France had supported the successful American quest for such independence a few years earlier. Now, France would launch its own revolution. Reporting from Paris Editor-in-Chief Shellie Karabell talks with Edith de Belleville, author, lawyer, tour guide and professor. [videographer/editor: Celine Marchand] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reportingfromparis.fr
Jun 30

How Overtourism is pushing Parisians out

As the popularity of self-catering city holidays took off, property investors snapped up places across the French capital, turning former family homes into luxury rentals – at twice or even three times the previous rent. The main thrust of the city’s crackdown on the sudden housing shortage has been to reduce the number of holiday lets and make the business less attractive to property owners. Local taxes and social charges have also increased, in a bid to encourage more owners to return the properties to long-term rentals. Property manager Gail Boisclair, who runs Perfectly Paris has seen the rental market change but is not convinced that current measures can really solve the housing crisis nor reduce overtourism. For Paris residents, the average monthly rental for an unfurnished apartment is €40 per m² but that can vary between €35 and €52 per m² depending on the arrondissement. Depending on what kind of lease a vacation rental owner uses, they can ask considerably more for short-stay lets. When he was running for office, the new mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire promised to go after owners of buildings deliberately left empty for part or all of the year. These include secondary residences, apartments used for vacation lets, but also entire buildings owned by large companies who deliberately leave them empty, secure in the knowledge that the value of the building will increase, even without any rental income. Boisclair believes going after those companies would do more to increase the long-term housing offer than driving out people who have a secondary home in Paris that they let occasionally to tourists. One of Grégoire’s promises that both Boisclair and Béatrice Dunner of the Association for the Defense of Montmartre believe is imperative, is a move to protect smaller shops and businesses from the open rental market, where big chains or luxury brands can afford to pay more and thus push up prices, driving out local grocery shops, hardware stores or bookshops. Reporting from Paris reached out to City Hall for comment but had received no reply at time of publication. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reportingfromparis.fr
Jun 11

Investing in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): Krishnan Narayan of SkiesFifty

Airlines directly account for 2.5 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions. That number increases to 4 to 6 percent when non-CO2 effects are included. The industry has an aspirational commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050, and airlines are actively deploying such measures as buying more energy-efficient aircraft, deploying new technologies, and developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). It’s a long-term challenge. Krishnan Narayanan, Chairman and Partner in SkiesFifty, an investment firm dedicated to sustainability in the aviation industry, spoke with Reporting from Paris Editor in Chief Shellie Karabell about developments in sustainable aviation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reportingfromparis.fr

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Reporting from Paris is your monthly online magazine aimed at a global English-speaking audience with an affinity for and more than a passing knowledge of Paris. Not focused on luxury but on passion: for insights and ideas, facts and fancies, profound thought, and light-hearted whimsy by veteran Paris-based journalists... Real news. Real insights. Real journalists. www.reportingfromparis.fr

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