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}}Le Temps ({{IPA-fr|lÉ™ tɑ̃}}, {{lit.|The Time}}) is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA. It is the sole nationwide French-language non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland. Since 2021, it has been owned by Fondation Aventinus, a not-for-profit organisation.NEWS, 2021-01-03, Une nouvelle étape pour ‘Le Temps’: l’audace d’y croire, fr, Le Temps,www.letemps.ch/economie/une-nouvelle-etape-temps-laudace-dy-croire, 2022-08-12, 1423-3967, Le Temps is considered a newspaper of record in Switzerland.NEWS, Enderlin, Serge, 5 November 2020, La Fondation Aventinus ...,www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2020/11/05/la-fondation-aventinus-rachete-le-quotidien-suisse-le-temps_6058623_3236.html, live, fr, Le Monde, Geneva,archive.today/20230619192233/https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2020/11/05/la-fondation-aventinus-rachete-le-quotidien-suisse-le-temps_6058623_3236.html, 19 June 2023, 19 June 2023, Le Temps, newspaper of record of the French-language press in Switzerland, NEWS, 9 November 2020, Darius Rochebin ...,www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/darius-rochebin-porte-plainte-pour-diffamation-contre-le-journal-le-temps-20201109, live, fr, Le Figaro, Agence France-Presse,web.archive.org/web/20220923001148/https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/darius-rochebin-porte-plainte-pour-diffamation-contre-le-journal-le-temps-20201109, 23 September 2022, 19 June 2023, Le Temps, newspaper of record in Switzerland, According to the Research Department on Public Opinion and Society (FÖG) of the University of Zurich, it is of “high quality”.The Quality of the Media {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924014134www.foeg.uzh.ch/jahrbuch/Broschur_Jahrbuch_foeg_englisch_2012.pdf |date=24 September 2015 }}, main findings, Research Department on Public Opinion and Society (FÖG) of the University of Zurich, 2012.Yves Petignat, “Le nivellement par le bas de la presse suisse”, www.letemps.ch, Wednesday 25 September 2013.

History and profile

First published on 18 March 1998,NEWS, Le Temps celebrates its 15th anniversary,www.publicitas.com/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=96366&title=switzerland-le-temps-celebrates-its-15th-anniversary#.VLrKU2SsXRA,www.publicitas.com/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=96366&title=switzerland-le-temps-celebrates-its-15th-anniversary#.VLrKU2SsXRA," title="web.archive.org/web/20130911040636www.publicitas.com/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=96366&title=switzerland-le-temps-celebrates-its-15th-anniversary#.VLrKU2SsXRA,">web.archive.org/web/20130911040636www.publicitas.com/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=96366&title=switzerland-le-temps-celebrates-its-15th-anniversary#.VLrKU2SsXRA, dead, 11 September 2013, 17 January 2015, Publicitas, 18 March 2013, it is the result of the merger of three major newspapers from the Lake Geneva region: the Journal de Genève, Gazette de Lausanne and Le Nouveau Quotidien.WEB, Le Temps,www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/source-information/68051-le-temps, VoxEurop, 17 January 2015, NEWS, Cyril Jost, The challenges confronting the Swiss press,www.inaglobal.fr/en/press/article/challenges-confronting-swiss-press, 29 May 2016, Ina Global, 4 February 2011, Previously owned by Ringier, it has been majority-owned by the not-for-profit Fondation Aventinus (95.5%). The remaining shares are held by the Groupe Le Monde (2.1%) and the employee-owned Société des rédacteurs et du personnel du Temps SA (2.4%).NEWS, À propos, fr, Le Temps,www.letemps.ch/a-propos, 2022-08-12, 1423-3967, {{As of|2022}}, the newspaper had around 120 employees, spread across newsrooms in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Neuchâtel and Sion, and relying upon the work of freelance journalists worldwide.Published Monday through Saturday, the newspaper has several supplements (Friday: “Carrières” job and management; Saturday: “Samedi culturel” and special features for the week-end; monthly “Sortir“WEB, Sortir, supplement to Le temps becomes monthly,www.publicitas.com/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=108970&title=switzerland-sortir-supplement-to-le-temps-becomes-monthly#.VLrJaGSsXRA, Publicitas, 17 January 2015, 24 January 2014, cultural diary), thematic special editions, a website and digital applications.{{clarify|date=August 2012|reason=“le temps’, the newspaper? or “le temps sa”, the publisher?}} has an advertising agency, Le Temps Media (Publicitas).The circulation of was 45,970 copies in 2006.JOURNAL, Swiss newspaper market in flux, Swiss Review, October 2007, 5, 9,www.revue.ch/fileadmin/revue/Ausgaben/2007/sr_en_2007_05_download.pdf, 4 December 2014, Its circulation was 45,506 copies in 2009.BOOK, Hugo Bigi, Journalism Education Between Market Dependence and Social Responsibility: An Examination of Trainee Journalists,books.google.com/books?id=ojPlRFHuvoYC&pg=PA27, 17 January 2015, 2012, Haupt Verlag AG, 978-3-258-07753-6, 27, In 2013 the paper had a paid circulation of 36,391 copies.

Editors-in-chief

The newspaper’s former and current editors-in-chief are:

• Eric Hoesli, from 1998 to 2002.
• Jean-Jacques Roth, from 2002 to 2010.
• Pierre Veya, from 2010 to 2015.
• Stéphane Benoit-Godet and Gaël Hurlimann, from 2015 to 2020 WEB, Switzerland: New editor-in-chief at Le Temps,www.publicitas.com/en/global/media-news-events/news-detail/?no_cache=1&rss=true&newsid=116551&title=Switzerland%3A-New-editor-in-chief-at-Le-Temps.VGiQmVesUX4,www.publicitas.com/en/global/media-news-events/news-detail/?no_cache=1&rss=true&newsid=116551&title=Switzerland%3A-New-editor-in-chief-at-Le-Temps.VGiQmVesUX4," title="web.archive.org/web/20140919025158www.publicitas.com/en/global/media-news-events/news-detail/?no_cache=1&rss=true&newsid=116551&title=Switzerland%3A-New-editor-in-chief-at-Le-Temps.VGiQmVesUX4,">web.archive.org/web/20140919025158www.publicitas.com/en/global/media-news-events/news-detail/?no_cache=1&rss=true&newsid=116551&title=Switzerland%3A-New-editor-in-chief-at-Le-Temps.VGiQmVesUX4, dead, 19 September 2014, Publicitas, 16 November 2014, 10 September 2014, WEB, Gaël Hurlimann nommé rédacteur en chef des plates-formes numériques de la future newsroom de Ringier Romandie,www.ringier.com/en/node/7913, Ringier, 5 January 2020, 22 October 2014,
• Madeleine von Holzen, from 2021 to present

Collaborations

The newspaper collaborates editorially with newsrooms around the world, including Le Courrier International, Le Monde, Le Soir and La Tribune.It shares advertising pools with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Le Monde.

Archives

• Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1991)Called Peuple vaudois from 1798 to 1803.
• Journal de Genève (1826–1991)
• Journal de Genève et gazette de Lausanne (1991–1998)
• Le nouveau quotidien (1991–1998)

With assistance of the Swiss National Library and regional libraries, the publisher offers 200 years of independent Swiss press, available on the internet at www.letempsarchives.ch.

See also

• List of newspapers in Switzerland

Notes and references

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External links

{{Commons category|Le Temps (Swiss newspaper)}}

• {{official websitewww.letemps.ch}} {{in lang|fr}}

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