24 heures (Switzerland)

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History

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Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne, 12 January 1900

Script error: No such module "Lang". was founded in 1762 by David Duret (1733–1803) as the Script error: No such module "Lang"., a weekly collection of announcements and classified ads like many at the time.[1][2] It was then made a biweekly paper in 1851, and a triweekly the next year.[2] In 1872, it became a daily, with editor Jean-Ulrich-Martin Allenspach.[2] The paper later became the Script error: No such module "Lang". towards the end of the century, and integrated an independent news section on 16 December 1872.[2][3] It became a public limited company in 1906.[2] Marc Lamunière entrusted the modernization of the paper to Marcel Pasche, a creative director, in 1952.[2] The paper adopted its current name in 1972.[4][5]

It was bought by Edipresse in 2002, before being bought by Tamedia in 2009.[2] It covers regional news, but also international and national news.[2] The newspaper shares some of its content with the Tribune de Genève, Tamedia's local newspaper for the Canton of Geneva.[6] In 2024, Tamedia, now its owner, made plans to merge the editorial offices of the publication with other publications it owned, Le Matin and the Tribune de Genève.[7]

At the start of the 20th century its circulation was about 26,000.[2] The 2006 circulation of Script error: No such module "Lang". was 95,315 copies.[8] Between 2007 and 2011, circulation dropped from 89,102 to 78,964.[2] As of 2017, the newspaper had a circulation of 55,147.[9] it is the oldest newspaper in the world with uninterrupted publication.[3]

Organization

Since 25 February 2005, the newspaper has had four local editions, with sections for the specific area of the canton:[10]

The Nord Vaudois-Broye and Riviera-Chablais editions replaced the newspapers La Presse Riviera/Chablais and La Presse Nord Vaudois.[11]

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External links

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