La Dépêche du Midi

La Dépêche, formally La Dépêche du Midi (French pronunciation: [la depɛʃ dy midi]), is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France[1][2] with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region.[3] The main local editions are for Toulouse, Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.

La Dépêche du Midi
CountryFrance
Websitewww.ladepeche.fr
La Dépêche du Midi editing room (top) and printing room (bottom) in Toulouse (1905)

History and profile

The newspaper first appeared on 2 October 1870 when it was called La Dépêche de Toulouse.[4][5] Publication was prompted by workers at the Sirven print works in Toulouse, which established the paper's left-leaning politics.[5] 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.[5] It reappeared under its current name in 1947.[5] Like its predecessor La Dépêche du Midi has a leftist stance.[5]

The newspaper is part of Groupe La Dépêche du Midi.[6] The combined circulation for the 17 regional dailies under La Dépêche du Midi was 200,000 copies in 2006.[6]

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
  1. Serge Berstein; Jean-Pierre Rioux (13 March 2000). The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974. Cambridge University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-521-58061-8. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  2. Michael Palmer; Jeremy Tunstall (19 October 2006). Media Moguls. Routledge. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-134-93734-9. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  3. "News & Business Content Bulletin" (PDF). Lexis Nexis. September 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  4. 140 ans ... En cette année anniversaire de la création de « La Dépêche du Midi », fondée en 1870,
  5. Donna Evleth (1 January 1999). The Authorized Press in Vichy and German-occupied France, 1940–1944: A Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-313-30784-3. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  6. "Nstein Technologies signs a deal with La Depeche du Midi, a leading regional newspaper in France". PR Newswire. Montreal and Paris. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
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