La Dépêche du Midi
{{Short description|French regional daily newspaper}}
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| name = La Dépêche du Midi
| logo = La_Dépêche_Logo.svg
| headquarters = Toulouse
| publishing_country = France
| ISSN = 0181-7981
| eISSN = 2426-6388
| website = {{URL|https://www.ladepeche.fr/}}
}}
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| header = La Dépêche du Midi editing room (top) and printing room (bottom) in Toulouse (1905)
| image1 = La salle de composition de La dépêche du Midi, en 1905.jpg
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La Dépêche, formally La Dépêche du Midi ({{IPA|fr|la depɛʃ dy midi}}), is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France{{cite book|author1=Serge Berstein|author2=Jean-Pierre Rioux|title=The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GyhQAJeOZoC&pg=PA200|access-date=21 April 2015|date=13 March 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58061-8|page=199}}{{cite book|author1=Michael Palmer|author2=Jeremy Tunstall|title=Media Moguls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XliIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148|access-date=10 May 2015|date=19 October 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-93734-9|page=151}} with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region.{{cite web|title=News & Business Content Bulletin|url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/bis-user-information/docs/New%20Releases-September2014-legal.pdf|work=Lexis Nexis|access-date=10 January 2015|date=September 2014}} The main local editions are for Toulouse, Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.
History and profile
The newspaper first appeared on 2 October 1870 when it was called La Dépêche de Toulouse.[http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2010/11/02/940025-140-ans-en-archives.html 140 ans] ... En cette année anniversaire de la création de « La Dépêche du Midi », fondée en 1870,{{cite book|author=Donna Evleth|title=The Authorized Press in Vichy and German-occupied France, 1940–1944: A Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YIoD5X_SYsIC&pg=PA55|access-date=10 January 2015|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30784-3|page=55}} Publication was prompted by workers at the Sirven print works in Toulouse, which established the paper's left-leaning politics. It was at La Dépêche that the Socialist politician Jean Jaurès wrote his first articles. The paper also published the articles by Georges Clemenceau. In the big issue of the day, the Dreyfus affair, the paper first insisted Alfred Dreyfus had given army secrets to the Germans but then came out in his support.
The paper fell under German control after the occupation of 1940. Like other newspapers that had collaborated during the war, La Dépêche de Toulouse was closed by the postwar government in 1944. It reappeared under its current name in 1947. Like its predecessor La Dépêche du Midi has a leftist stance.
The newspaper is part of Groupe La Dépêche du Midi. The combined circulation for the 17 regional dailies under La Dépêche du Midi was 200,000 copies in 2006.{{cite news|title=Nstein Technologies signs a deal with La Depeche du Midi, a leading regional newspaper in France|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nstein-technologies-signs-a-deal-with-la-depeche-du-midi-a-leading-regional-newspaper-in-france-58139612.html|access-date=10 January 2015|work=PR Newswire|location=Montreal and Paris}}
| class="wikitable"
|+Weekly circulation of the newspaper !Year !Weekly circulation |
| 2003
|200,000 |
| 2004
|– |
| 2005
|200,090 |
| 2006
|196,641 |
| 2007
|197,751 |
| 2008
|196,749 |
| 2009
|190,875 |
| 2010
|186,213 |
| 2011
|180,969 |
| 2012
|174,511 |
| 2013
|166,137 |
| 2014
|157,215 |
| 2015
|149,998 |
| 2016
|144,419 |
| 2017
|140,097 |
| 2018
|133,074 |
| 2019
|127,466 |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{official website}}
{{Newspapers in France}}
{{Authority control}}
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Category:1870 establishments in France
Category:Mass media in Toulouse