L'Impartial (Switzerland)

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L'Impartial
L'Impartial.svg
description Swiss daily newspaper
language French
publishing company Société Neuchâteloise de Presse (Editions Suisses Holding SA by Philippe Hersant )
First edition January 1, 1881
attitude 22nd January 2018
Frequency of publication working days
Sold edition 10,132 (previous year 10,382) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2017)
Widespread edition 10,353 (previous year 10,616) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2017)
Range 0.030 (previous year 0.032) million readers
(WEMF MACH Basic 2017-I)
Editors-in-chief Stéphane Devaux, Eric Lecluyse
Web link www.arcinfo.ch
ISSN 1053-3222

L'Impartial was a French- language daily newspaper in Switzerland published in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel . It was published by Société Neuchâteloise de Presse, which is majority owned by Groupe ESH Médias (Editions Suisses Holding SA) owned by Philippe Hersant, the owner of the Hersant Group . In January 2018 it was included in the new ArcInfo newspaper .

history

L'Impartial ("Der Unparteiische") was founded on January 1, 1881 by Alexandre Courvoisier as an independent newspaper in La Chaux-de-Fonds . In 1967 she absorbed the Feuille d'Avis des Montagnes , the daily newspaper of Le Locle , also founded by the Courvoisier family in 1806 , which gave her a monopoly on the high plateau of the canton of Neuchâtel. In 1992, the publisher of the Journal du Jura and the Bieler Tagblatt Marc Gassmann took over 55% of the share capital of Impartial . The WEMF - certified edition was in 2017 10'132 (previous year 10'382.) Sold or 10'353 (previous year 10'616.) Spread copies that reach 30,000 (previous year: 32,000.) Reader (MACH Basic WEMF 2017-I).

Began in 1996 after years of rivalry with a common coat a close journalistic and technical cooperation between L'Impartial and in Neuchâtel appearing Express . In order to maintain the regional political balance between “liberal mountains” and “conservative lake” and to smooth out the political waves that arose at the beginning of the cooperation, the two regional editions not only continued to carry the ancestral names, but also differed in the comments, apart from the local section cantonal affairs. The cover section and the production of the successor newspaper ArcInfo will continue to take place in Neuchâtel. Since February 7, 2007, the Le Journal du Jura , the daily newspaper for the Bernese Jura, published in Biel, has also been integrated as a header in the same way.

In 1999 the two Neuchâtel papers were merged into the Société Neuchâteloise de Presse. The Wolfrath family, owned by Express since 1814 , held 62 % of the share capital through their L'Express Communication Holding, PubliGroupe 28.5% and Marc Gassmann 9.5% of the share capital. In spring 2002, the Wolfrath family owned Express Communication Holding sold to the French Groupe France-Antilles (today: Groupe Hersant Média ). The competition commission approved the sale. An attempt by PubliGroupe and Marc Gassmann to invoke a right of first refusal for the 62% of Express Communication Holding was unsuccessful. Hersant then brought his stake in the two newspapers into the newly founded Groupe ESH Médias (Editions Suisses Holding SA).

L'Impartial covered the two districts of the Neuchâtel Mountains (La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle), the Freiberge district (French Franches-Montagnes) in the canton of Jura and the Vallon de St-Imier in the Bernese Jura .

Nicolas Willemin was editor-in-chief of the newspaper until March 2017, then Eric Lecluyse and, since June 1, 2017, Stéphane Devaux for the Montagnes-Jura department.

News portal

ArcInfo was founded in 2008 , the joint multimedia online platform of Impartial and Express as well as the regional TV broadcaster Canal Alpha , which publishes their editorial content. It has been paid for since 2010.

Historical archive

On the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the sister newspaper L'Express in 2013, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel, the Bibliothèque de la Ville, La Chaux-de-Fonds and the Swiss National Library and financially supported by Loterie Romande and of Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise digitized all issues since 1881 as well as all issues of Express since 1738 including text recognition and have been made available online free of charge since then. The digitization work took five years and cost over CHF 5 million.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WEMF edition bulletin 2017 ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 16 (PDF; 640 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wemf.ch
  2. ↑ New Neuchâtel newspapers under one title. In: persoenlich.com . 17th January 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Journal L'Impartial. In: Archives of the Impartial.
  4. ↑ A somewhat dangerous liaison. In: NZZ . March 2, 2002.
  5. ^ Accords SNP Société Neuchâteloise de Presse SA avec SA France-Antilles. In: na press portal. March 15, 2002.
  6. ↑ Oui de la ComCo au rachat de «L'Impartial» et «L'Express». In : wirtschaft.ch. March 19, 2002.
  7. ↑ Stéphane Devaux rejoint la SNP. In: ArcInfo.ch. 17th February 2016.
  8. ^ ArcInfo , the website of Impartial , Express and Canal Alpha .
  9. ↑ L'Express and L'Impartial. In: Website of the Swiss Confederation .
  10. ↑ 275 ans d'archives mises en ligne par L'Express / L'Impartial. In: RTS Info . 4th June 2013.