L'Echo
{{Short description|French-language Belgian business newspaper}}
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Berliner format
| owners = Mediafin
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1881|5|22|df=yes}}
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| language = French
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| headquarters = Avenue du Port 86C, Box 309,
1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
| circulation = 18,736 (second half of 2012)
| sister newspapers = De Tijd
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| website = {{URL|www.lecho.be}}
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L'Echo is a Belgian daily newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics. It is published by Mediafin and mainly distributed in Wallonia and Brussels. It is the French-language counterpart of the Flemish daily De Tijd, which is its sister paper.
History and profile
L'Echo originated as L'Écho de la bourse de Bruxelles ({{lit|The Brussels Stock Exchange Echo}}) which was first published on 22 May 1881.{{cite web|title=Media Landscape Media Claims |url=http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/round6/methods/ESS6_media_landscape_media_claims_ed_02_0.pdf |publisher=European Social Survey |accessdate=12 January 2015 |date=May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816014141/http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/round6/methods/ESS6_media_landscape_media_claims_ed_02_0.pdf |archivedate=16 August 2014 }} It was renamed L'Écho de la Bourse ({{lit|The Stock Exchange Echo}}) in 1889 and retained the name until 1990 when the paper adopted its current title. It is owned by Mediafin which is also the owner of the Flemish business daily De Tijd.{{cite news|title=L'Echo and de Tijd named media of the year|url=http://www.adnative.net/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=109290&title=belgium-lecho-and-de-tijd-named-media-of-the-year#.VNPe52SsXRA|accessdate=5 February 2015|work=Adnative|date=10 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406040156/http://www.adnative.net/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=109290&title=belgium-lecho-and-de-tijd-named-media-of-the-year#.VNPe52SsXRA|archive-date=6 April 2017|url-status=dead}} Both papers offer financial and economic news.
L'Echo is headquartered in Brussels. In March 2012 it began to be published in Berliner format.{{cite news|title=New sizes for L'Echo and De Tijd|url=http://www.adnative.net/global/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=76186&title=belgium-new-sizes-for-lecho-and-de-tijd#.VNPc02SsXRB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205235754/http://www.adnative.net/global/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=76186&title=belgium-new-sizes-for-lecho-and-de-tijd#.VNPc02SsXRB|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2015|accessdate=5 February 2015|work=Adnative|date=29 March 2012}}
Circulation
L'Echo sold 260,000 copies in 1990.{{cite book|author1=Pierre Musso|author2=Philippe Souêtre|author3=Lionel Levasseur|title=The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXueScfbDrgC&pg=PA134|accessdate=19 February 2015|year=1995|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-2807-2|page=133}} The paper had a circulation of 28,765 copies and a market share of 4.5% in 2002.{{cite web|author=David Ward|title=A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries|url=http://77.87.161.246/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/A-Mapping-Study-of-Media-Concentration-and-Ownership-in-Ten-European-Countries.pdf|work=Dutch Media Authority|accessdate=12 August 2014|year=2004|archive-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203318/http://77.87.161.246/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/A-Mapping-Study-of-Media-Concentration-and-Ownership-in-Ten-European-Countries.pdf|url-status=dead}} The paper had a 18,736 copies in the second half of 2012.
References
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External links
- [http://www.lecho.be/ Official web site] {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:1881 establishments in Belgium
Category:French-language newspapers published in Belgium