24 heures (Switzerland)

24 heures
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Edipresse
Founder(s) François Duret
Founded 1762
Language Swiss French
Headquarters Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Circulation 55,147[1] (as of 2017)
Sister newspapers Tribune de Genève
OCLC number 611051843
Website 24heures.ch (in Swiss French)
Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne, 12 January 1900

24 heures (literally "24 Hours") is a Swiss regional Swiss-French-language daily newspaper, published by Tamedia in Lausanne, Vaud. Founded in 1762 as a collection of announcements and official communications, it is the oldest newspaper in the world with uninterrupted publication.[2]

Foundation and operations

24 heures was founded in 1762 by François Duret as the Annonces et avis divers, a collection of announcements and classified ads like many at the times. The paper later became the Feuille d'avis de Lausanne, and integrated an independent news section on 16 December 1872.[2] The paper adopted its current name a century later, in 1972.[3][4]

Change of name

Since 25 February 2005, the newspaper has had four local editions, with sections for the specific area of the canton:[5]

The Nord Vaudois-Broye and Riviera-Chablais editions replaced the newspapers La Presse Riviera-Chablais and La Presse Nord Vaudois.[6]

The newspaper shares some of its content with the Tribune de Genève, Tamedia's local newspaper for the Canton of Geneva.

The 2006 circulation of 24 heures was 95,315 copies.[7] As of 2017, the newspaper had a circulation of 55,147.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Données médias". Tamedia (in French). 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 Piñeiro, Olalla (30 December 2017). "24 heures, un journal en perpétuelle mutation". 24 heures (Switzerland). p. 20.
  3. ↑ "Scriptorium - Anciens journaux vaudois". Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne (in French). 2013. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Archives de la presse romande" (in French). Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Quotidiens" (PDF). RERO (Library Network of Western Switzerland). Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "La Presse Riviera/Chablais et La Presse Nord vaudois c'est fini". Radio Télévision Suisse (in French). 25 February 2005. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Swiss newspaper market in flux" (PDF). Swiss Review. 5: 9. October 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
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