Prominent French Journalist and Media Executive Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber Dies at 83 from COVID-19

Journalist and press boss Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber succumbed on Saturday, November 28, to Covid-19, reports Paris Match. Information confirmed by the family of the illustrious deceased, on Sunday. Born on October 31, 1937 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Jean-Louis had started his career at the economic daily Les Échos, co-founded by his father Émile. He will join L’Express founded by his brother and Françoise Giroud before creating his own media.

In 1967, the deceased partnered with economist Jean Boissonnat to found L’Expansion. In Morocco, he had bought and run the magazine La Vie Économique in the 1990s. This magazine became the first news weekly in the kingdom. He sold it at the end of the 1990s to buy Psychologies magazine from Bernard Loiseau, which also enjoyed enormous success.

"JLSS" was also an essayist. To his credit, 17 works, including 80 years, a certain age, on old age, published in early 2019 and With time, published in January 2020.