La Libre Belgique

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La Libre Belgique
Circulation
23,198 (2022)
Websitewww.lalibre.be

La Libre Belgique (French pronunciation:

liberal
but is still considered more conservative than Le Soir.

History

A La Libre Belgique of 1915 when the paper was produced clandestinely during World War I

The modern La Libre traces its origins to the Le Patriote newspaper, founded by Victor and Louis Jourdain in 1884. Politically, the newspaper supported the dominant centre-right Catholic Party.[1]

After the

underground newspaper called La Libre Belgique ("Free Belgium"). The new title was an allusion to a collaborationist paper called La Belgique ("Belgium"). A total of 171 issues of La Libre Belgique appeared during the occupation.[2]
It soon became famous as an example of Belgian resistance. Several weeks before the end of the hostilities, both of the Jourdain brothers died of natural causes. Their work was continued by Victor’s two sons Joseph and Paul Jourdain.

The newspaper

masthead) achieved a circulation of 10,000 to 30,000 copies. 85 bi-monthly issues were published.[3]

After the war, La Libre Belgique supported the mainstream

centrist editorial policy.[4]

La Libre today

La Libre is published six times per week (from Monday to Saturday) by the IPM publishing group

editor in chief is Dorian de Meeûs. An online edition of the paper was started in 2001.[7] The paper has been published in a Compact format since 2002.[4][7]

La Libre was noted widely as one of the papers involved in a feud with Google relating to which content that could be linked and cached by Google. In July 2011, the paper was totally removed from Google News and Google's normal web search.

Circulation

La Libre Belgique reached a record circulation of 190,000 copies in 1959. In 1990 the paper sold 170,000 copies.[8] However, by 1999 it had dropped to 68,212 copies. The 2002 circulation of the paper was 61,463 copies with a market share of 9.6 percent.[9] The circulation of the paper was 42,000 in copies in 2010.[4] In 2016, the paper had a circulation of 35,500 with an online traffic of 1-5 million.[10] In 2022, the paper had a circulation of 23,198 copies according to official IPM documents.

Films

Aspects of the newspaper's history reflecting the

The Passing Parade
series.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Communicating Europe Manual: Belgium" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. July 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ^ Laporte, Christian (1 August 2014). "Du "Patriote" à "La Libre Belgique"…". La Libre. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. Cegesoma
    . Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d "La Libre Belgique". Euro Topics. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Belgian French-language news publishers, authors societies and Google reach partnership agreement" (PDF). Copie Presse. Brussels. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  6. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5
    . Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  7. ^ a b "La Libre Belgique". VoxEurop. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  8. ISBN 978-92-871-2807-2
    . Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  9. ^ David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Dutch Media Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  10. ^ "La Libre Belgique". Euro Topics. Retrieved 27 July 2017.

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