To celebrate its centennial in 1983, "la Croix-l’Événement" took on a newer layout. The paper added new sections with the arrival of Noël Copin, editor in chief. The readership continued to decline, but the new team led by Bruno Frappat, former editing director of "Le Monde" who arrived in January 1995, hopes to fight against this trend of general disaffectation with the press which is plaguing a large number of French newspapers. (A regular printing in 1998 would be of about 127,000 copies).