Type Daily newspaper Editor-in-chief Stéphane Benoit-Godet | Format Berliner | |
Owner(s) 92,4% Ringier (since 2014) Founded 18 March 1998; 18 years ago (1998-03-18) Political alignment Centre; social-liberalism | ||
Le Temps (literally "The Times") is a Swiss daily newspaper in French published in the Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA.
Contents
It is the only nationwide French-language non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland.
According to the Research Department on Public Opinion and Society (FÖG) 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. As of 2010, it had 130 correspondents, including in Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Sion and Zurich.
Published Monday through Saturday, the newspaper has several supplements (Friday: "Carrières" job and management; Saturday: "Samedi culturel" and special features for the week-end; monthly "Sortir" cultural diary), 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 (seven percent), employees (six percent) and Le Monde newspaper (five percent).
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 (to join the one of L'hebdo) although the Board of directors (chaired by Stéphane Garelli) will stay in Geneva.
Le Temps has an advertising agency, Le Temps Media (Publicitas).
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:
Collaborations
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.