La Montagne (newspaper)
{{Short description|Regional daily newspaper published in France}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
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| logo = La_Montagne_(newspaper)_Logo.svg
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| type = Regional daily newspaper
| format = Tabloid
| owners = Centre France group
| founder = Alexandre Varenne
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1919}}
| political = Socialist
| language = French
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| headquarters = Clermont-Ferrand
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| publishing_country = France
| circulation = 140,752
| circulation_date = 2020
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| ISSN = 0767-4007
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| oclc = 474205368
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| website = [http://www.lamontagne.fr/accueil.html La Montagne]
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La Montagne is a French language regional daily newspaper based in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The title was selected to reflect its alignment with the ideas of the Montagnards of the French Revolution.{{cite web|url=https://overnia.bibliotheques-clermontmetropole.eu/presse.php?titre=La%20presse%20auvergnate&id=2795|location=Clermont-Ferrand|title=La Montagne (1919-1944)|publisher=Clermont Auvergne Metropole Bibliothèques et médiathèques|access-date=10 May 2021|language=fr}} The paper has been in circulation since 1919.
History and profile
La Montagne was established as an independent socialist publication by Alexandre Varenne in 1919.{{cite book|title=Europa World Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA1699|year=2004|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-254-1|page=1695
|location=London; New York}}{{cite book|author=John Sweets|title=Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GfyeutpUosC&pg=PA138|year=1994|isbn=978-0-19-503751-7
|pages=133,138,144|location=New York; Oxford}} He also served as the editor-in-chief of the paper which is headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand.{{cite book|author=Raymond Kuhn|title=The Media in France|isbn=978-1-134-98053-6
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3t-KAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|pages=30,32|location=London; New York}}
La Montagne was censored during World War II when France was occupied by the German forces, and the paper was suspended on 27 August 1943.{{cite book|editor1=Alex Hughes|editor2=Keith A Reader
|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture|year=2002|page=457|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-78866-8|location=London; New York
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKCFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA457}} It was relaunched on 15 September 1944 and became the main daily in Auvergne.
The Centre France group is the owner of La Montagne, which also owns other regional dailies and weeklies.{{cite web|title=Media|url=http://www.clermont-ferrand.fr/Media.html|publisher=Clermont-Ferrand|access-date=7 February 2015}} The majority shareholder in the company is the Alexander and Margaret Varenne Foundation.{{cite web|title=Company description. Groupe Centre-France (La Montagne SA)|work=G2Mi|access-date=7 February 2015|url=http://www.g2mi.com/company_description.php?id=3354}} La Montagne began to be published in tabloid format in January 2008.{{cite web|title=La Montagne|publisher=Cadeauretro
|url=http://www.cadeauretro.com/titre/MONTVOIR.htm|access-date=7 February 2015}}
Circulation
La Montagne sold 246,900 copies in 1990 and 224,000 copies in 1991. The paper sold 209,000 copies in 2000.{{cite book
|editor1=Mary Kelly|editor2=Gianpietro Mazzoleni|editor3=Denis McQuail|title=The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook|isbn=978-1-4129-3260-8
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPS8edN_aJUC&pg=PA76|year=2003|page=75|publisher=SAGE Publications|location=London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi}} The circulation of the paper rose to 211,941 copies in 2001{{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=Commissariaat voor de Media|access-date=7 February 2015|location=Hilversum
|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}} and had a readership of 632,000 the same year.{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}} La Montagne sold 206,813 copies in 2002. The paper had a circulation of 204,000 copies during the first quarter of 2006.{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor. France|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-france_en.pdf|work=Turku School of Economics (Media Group)|access-date=20 April 2015|date=March 2007}} In the period of 2007-2008 its circulation was 191,000 copies.{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market & Media Fact|work=Zenith Optimedia|access-date=8 April 2015|year=2008|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2015
|url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf}}
| class="wikitable"
!Year !2009 !2010 !2011 !2012 !2013 !2014 !2016 !2017 !2018 !2019 !2020 |
| Circulation
|197,424 |196,108 |191,927 |186,233 |182,600 |179,862 |168,759 |165,390 |157,392 |145,385 |147,735 |
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See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20150207005010/http://www.lamontagne.fr/accueil.html}}
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Category:1919 establishments in France
Category:Daily newspapers published in France
Category:Mass media in Clermont-Ferrand