Le Quotidien (Luxembourg)

{{About|the newspaper published in Luxembourg||Le Quotidien (disambiguation){{!}}Le Quotidien}}

{{Short description|Daily newspaper published in Luxembourg}}

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| name = Le Quotidien

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| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Berliner

| owners = {{ubl|Editpress | Lumedia}}

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| publisher = Lumedia

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| foundation = {{start date and age|2001}}

| political = Left-liberal

| language = French

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| headquarters = Esch-sur-Alzette

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| sister newspapers = {{ubl|Le Jeudi | Tageblatt}}

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| website = [http://www.lequotidien.lu/ Le Quotidien]

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Le Quotidien ({{IPA|fr|lə kɔtidjɛ̃}}; {{lit}} The Daily) is a daily newspaper published in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. It has been in circulation since 2001.

History and profile

Le Quotidien, a French language newspaper,{{cite web|title=The Luxembourg Media Landscape|work=EU. LU|access-date=22 January 2015

|url=http://www.eu2005.lu/en/savoir_lux/culture/nation_lecteurs/index.php}}{{cite book|author=George McDonald|title=Frommer's Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F9l7tCMVimoC&pg=PA55|year=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-06151-0|page=55}} was established in November 2001.{{cite book|editor1=Mary Kelly|editor2=Gianpietro Mazzoleni|editor3=Denis McQuail|title=The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook|location=London|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0moFhDLjTiwC&pg=PA140

|year=2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-4132-3|page=140|chapter=Luxembourg|author=Mario Hirsch}} The paper is the successor of the Luxembourg edition of Le Républicain lorrain, French regional newspaper.{{cite web|title=Le Quotidien|url=http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/source-profile/3959611-le-quotidien|work=Press Europe|access-date=1 February 2014}}{{cite book|editor=Georgios Terzis|title=European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68nbtqst-CsC&pg=PA137|year=2007|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-192-5|page=137|author=Mario Hirsch|chapter=The Luxembourgian Media Landscape|location=Bristol; Chicago, IL}} This switch occurred when the paper was acquired by the Editpress,{{cite book|author=Jean Jacques Weber|title=Multilingualism, Education and Change|year=2008|publisher=Peter Lang

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOUfbeTC-tsC&pg=PA75|isbn=978-3-631-57285-6|page=75|location=Frankfurt am Main}} which also owns Le Jeudi and Tageblatt.{{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|access-date=11 February 2015|year=2004}} The publisher of Le Quotidien, based in Esch-sur-Alzette, is the Lumedia.{{cite web|title=Le Quotidien (Luxembourg)|url=http://www.adnative.net/france/media-solutions/factsheet/?PARAM1=LRKQL1&title=le-quotidien-luxembourg|work=Adnative|access-date=1 February 2014}} The paper is published in Berliner format.

The political leaning of Le Quotidien is left-liberal.{{cite web|title=The media landscape in Luxembourg|work=Euro Topics

|url=http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/medienlandschaft/luxmdn/|access-date=1 February 2014|archive-date=2 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202203456/http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/medienlandschaft/luxmdn/|url-status=dead}} The daily targets the foreign residents of Luxembourg and offers national, international and local news. The website of the paper was launched in 2001. On 10 November 2010 it launched a new look and a new logo.{{cite web|title=Luxembourg’s Le Quotidien announces new look|url=http://www.garciamedia.com/blog/articles/luxembourgs_le_quotidien_premieres_new_look_today|work=Garcia Media|access-date=1 February 2014|date=8 November 2010}} From the same date it started Panorama, a Saturday supplement with weekend reviews of entertainment and activities.

Circulation

In 2003 Le Quotidien sold 5,469 copies based on the publisher report.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}} In 2004 the circulation of the paper was 5,441 copies.{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|location=Brussels

|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|date=16 January 2007}} The paper had a circulation of 6,637 copies in 2008 and 6,275 copies in 2009.{{cite web|title=National Paid Newspapers|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_17-08-2012.xls|work=IFABC|access-date=22 January 2015}} It was 6,413 copies in 2010 and 7,021 copies in 2011.

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