Le Temps


Le Temps is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Lausanne by Le Temps SA.
It is the only nationwide French-language non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland.
According to the Research Department on Public Opinion and Society of the University of Zurich, it is of "high quality".

History and profile

First published on 18 March 1998, it is the result of the merger of the newspapers Journal de Genève, Gazette de Lausanne and Le Nouveau Quotidien., it had 130 correspondents, including in Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Sion and Zurich.
Published Monday through Saturday, the newspaper has several supplements, thematic special editions, a website and digital applications.
Its publisher, Le Temps SA, was held by ER Publishing at eighty-two percent, which, in turn, is fifty-percent owned by Edipresse Group and fifty-percent owned by Ringier Group. The remaining eighteen-percent ownership is held by Claude Demole, employees and Le Monde newspaper.
Since 2014, Le Temps SA is owned at 92.5% by Ringier, at 3% by Claude Demole, at 2.4% by the Société des rédacteurs et du personnel du Temps SA and at 2.1% by Le Monde. Ringier announced that the reaction will move to Lausanne although the Board of directors will stay in Geneva.
Le Temps has an advertising agency, Le Temps Media.
The circulation of Le Temps was 45,970 copies in 2006. Its circulation was 45,506 copies in 2009. In 2013 the paper had a paid circulation of 36,391 copies.

Editors-in-chief

The newspaper's former and current editors-in-chief are:
The newspaper collaborates editorially with newsrooms around the world, including Le Courrier International, Le Monde, Le Soir and La Tribune.
It shares advertising pools with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Le Monde.

Archives

Le Temps digitalised the archives of its three predecessors:
With assistance of the Swiss National Library and regional libraries, the publisher offers 200 years of independent Swiss press, available on the internet at www.letempsarchives.ch.