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| Type | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tablet digital, Website, Mobile app |
| Owner(s) | La Presse Inc. (a non-profit corporation) |
| President | Pierre-Elliott Levasseur |
| Editor | Guy Crevier |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Ceased publication | 2017 (print edition) |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | 750, boulevard Saint-Laurent Montreal,Quebec H2Y 2Z4 |
| Circulation | 204,948 daily 263,888 Saturday (as of 2011)[1] |
| ISSN | 0317-9249 |
| OCLC number | 299333147 |
| Website | www |
La Presse is aFrench-languageonline newspaper published daily inMontreal,Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1884, it is now owned by an independentnonprofit trust.
La Presse was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered anewspaper 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, turningLa Presse into an entirely online newspaper.
La Presse is published on itswebsite,lapresse.ca, as well as on its mobile and tablet apps,La Presse Mobile andLa Presse+. The newspaper targets an educated,middle-class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, thetabloid-formatLe Journal de Montréal, which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left-leaningbroadsheetLe 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]
The paper was founded on October 20, 1884 by William-Edmond Blumhart.Trefflé Berthiaume took over in 1889. The fledgling newspaper'scirculation would soon pass that of its main competitor of the time,La Patrie.
In April 1901, the paper organized acruise toQuebec City (Croisière de La Presse). It also organized acharity to giveChristmas gifts to poor children (L'Oeuvre des étrennes aux enfants pauvres).
A front-page illustration on December 3, 1904, issue celebrated the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of theRoman Catholicdogma of theImmaculate Conception. The practice of the time was to have an illustration on the front page, rather than a photograph.
Between July 1971 and February 1972,La Presse endured a seven-month labour dispute between its then-ownerPower Corporation of Canada and 11 trade unions, prompted by the introduction of new printing technology that could have jeopardized the jobs of newspaper typographers. This resulted inLa Presse not being printed between October 28, 1971, and February 9, 1972. The dispute culminated in an over-10,000-strong protest inDowntown Montreal on October 29, 1971, resulting in over 200 injuries and arrests, as well as the death of the 28-year-old Michèle Gauthier, a student atCégep du Vieux Montréal, who was caught up in the protests.[4]
The style and presentation of the print newspaper changed immensely during the course of the 20th century. It underwent complete graphic redesigns in 1986 and 2003.
From 1984 to 2014,La Presse every year honoured a "Person of the Year", for example,Julie Payette,Daniel Langlois andGaétan Boucher. In 1984, it also published a commemorative book in order to celebrate its 100th anniversary. A similar book was published byÉditions La Presse to recap the major events of the 20th century.
In 2001, with the arrival of news editorGuy Crevier, the newspaper began a radical remodelling.[5] The graphic design was modernized, new sections were created, international coverage was greatly increased,[5] and many new young, up-and-coming journalists were hired. These changes had a significant positive impact on quality and circulation, to the point that the paper is now considered a rival toLe Devoir for the title of Quebec'snewspaper of record.[6]
In 2011,La Presse rebranded its new-media operations fromCyberpresse.ca toLaPresse.ca. In 2013, the newspaper launchedLa Presse+, a free digital edition for iPad.
Founded in May 2015, Nuglif is a subsidiary ofLa Presse and the platform aims at replicating theLa Presse+ business model for other publications in the daily news industry through a suite of publishing software and tools for delivery on both iPads and Android tablets.[7]
The newspaper announced in September 2015 that it would end its weekday print edition in 2016 and that thereafter the weekday paper would be available only in digital form.[8] The Saturday edition continued in print until December 30, 2017.[9]
On May 8, 2018, it was announced thatLa Presse would become anon-profit organization and sever ties with its owner, Power Corporation. This move allowed the newspaper to accept private donations and governmental support.[10]
In March 2024, La Presse apologized for posting an anti-Semitic cartoon relating to the Israel-Hamas war[11]
The editorial board ofLa Presse has been consistently supportive of Canadian federalism over the past 25 years, though individual columnists may freely express less sympathy. The newspaper's editorials endorsed thefederalist option in both the1980 Quebec referendum and the1995 Quebec referendum which were held on the issue ofQuebec's national sovereignty.
The editorial board leaves room for the whole spectrum of opinions. It supportedsame-sex marriage legislation in Canada, the protests against theWar in Iraq,[12] and criticized both sides in the2012 Quebec student protests. The paper endorsed theConservative Party in the2006 election.[13] This was primarily out of a reasoning that the Canadian government was in need of a necessary change after more than 12 years ofLiberal rule. Similarly, withStephen Harper's Conservatives having been in power for nine years at the time,La Presse endorsedJustin Trudeau's Liberal Party in the2015 election.[14]
Guy Crevier is currently the editor, andFrançois Cardinal is the assistant editor. Noted journalists associated with the paper includePatrick Lagacé,Yves Boisvert,Agnès Gruda andLysiane Gagnon.
The newspaper's television production arm,La Presse Télé, has produced the seriesDumont, hosted by former politicianMario Dumont, for the Quebec television networkV (formerly TQS).[15] The division, which had changed its name toLP8 Média, was sold to Attraction Images in 2014.
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