La Presse (Canadian newspaper)
La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by an independent nonprofit trust.
Type
Tablet digital, Website, Mobile app
La Presse Inc.
(a non-profit corporation)
Pierre-Elliott Levasseur
1884
French
2017 (print edition)
204,948 daily, 263,888 Saturday in 2011[1]
La Presse was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009, and the weekday edition in 2016. The weekend Saturday printed edition was discontinued on 31 December 2017, turning La Presse into an entirely online newspaper.
Audience and sections[edit]
La Presse is published on its website, lapresse.ca, and its mobile app, La Presse Mobile. The newspaper targets an educated, middle-class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, the tabloid-format Le Journal de Montréal, which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left-leaning broadsheet Le Devoir.
La Presse comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, business and economy and other themes. Its Saturday print edition (now discontinued) contained over 10 sections.
The newspaper's archives from 2000 to 2019 are available on its website.[2]
Television[edit]
The newspaper's television production arm, La Presse Télé, has produced the series Dumont, hosted by former politician Mario Dumont, for the Quebec television network V (formerly TQS).[14] The division, which had changed its name to LP8 Média, was sold to Attraction Images in 2014.
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