L'Express magazine founder dies

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who co-founded the French news magazine L'Express, has died at the age of 82. Servan-Schreiber was only 29 when he and Francoise Giroud (later France's first minister of women's affairs) set up L'Express in 1953. It was modelled, to an extent, on Time magazine and enthusiastically championed America and the free-market economy. Servan-Schreiber later made the jump from political commentator to politician, serving as head of the centre-left Radical Party in the 1970s. President Jacques Chirac called Servan-Schreiber "a passionate man full of ideas and action" who "forged multiple destinies." His obituary is here. (Via McCall)