Journal du Jura

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Journal du Jura
Owner(s)Gassman AG
Founder(s) Franz Wilhelm Gassmann
Founded1871
LanguageFrench
Headquarters Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern
CountrySwitzerland
Circulation 11,980(as of 2006)
Sister newspapers Bieler Tagblatt
ISSN 1424-9626
OCLC number 173956424
Website www.journaldujura.ch OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Free online archives e-newspaperarchives.ch

The Journal du Jura is a French-language Swiss newspaper published in Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern. It was founded in 1871, the successor to two prior papers; in this period it served as an outlet for the Jura Liberals. In 1956, it took over its rival paper, Petit Jurassien. It is the sister newspaper to the German-language paper Bieler Tagblatt .

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History

The paper was founded in 1871 by Franz Wilhelm Gassmann. He was a municipal councillor, parish president, member of the Grand Council of Biel, and the Central President of the Grütli Union. [1] It is published by Gassman AG, owned by the Gassman family. They also publish the German-language newspaper the Bieler Tagblatt , which is its sister paper. In doing this they brought together links between Francophone and German-speaking Switzerland. [1] [2]

It was the successor to the Feuille d'Avis founded in 1863, and then the Feuille d'Avis de Bienne et de Neuveville founded in 1868. [3] [1] Early employees of the paper included Nobel Peace Prize winners Élie Ducommun and Albert Gobat. [1] In this early period the paper functioned as an outlet for the liberal political faction in Jura. Its intended audience was the Francophone population of Biel and the Bernese Jura. [3] [1] It is published six days a week. [1] They share a bilingual newsroom and also share television and radio stations. [4] It is published in Bienne. [3] Its coverage mostly focused on cantonal and local news, but also Switzerland as a whole. [5]

Taking over its only rival newspaper, the Moutier paper Petit Jurassien (formerly the Feuille d'Avis du district de Moutier), in 1956, it continued to publish a version of this paper named the Tribune jurassienne until 1996. [3] [1] It also merged with a bilingual Bienne paper called L'Express. [3] [6] Following the merger with L'Express, that paper's editor-in-chief Jean-Pierre Maurer became the Journal du Jura's editor-in-chief, a position he held until his death in 1975. [6] Bernard Eggler was editor-in-chief for nine years, but left in 1994. [2] As of 1995, its editor-in-chief was Mario Sessa. [5] During the Jura separatism struggle the paper voiced opinions of those who wished to stay in the Canton of Bern. [3]

Journal du Jura had a period of good growth from 1985, but like many papers in Switzerland had struggles in the 1990s due to economic and advertising issues. [2] It opened up a new printing centre in 1985, which allowed for four-color printing in the paper. [2] The paper redesigned its format to be more compact in 1993, in order to harmonize its layout with other papers that used the same advertising distribution (including L'Express , L'Impartial , and Le Quotidien Jurassien . [7] It was redesigned again two years later to have instead a more open layout for its text. [5] In the 1990s, it was part of an editorial exchange between several other Swiss regional daily papers, [2] and since February 2007 it has collaborated with ArcInfo ( L'Express and L'Impartial), from which it takes national and international news. [1]

For its 150th anniversary in 2015, it published several supplements devoted to the history of the Jura region. [8] Its circulation was 13,000 in 1995, [5] and as of 2006, the paper's circulation was 11,980. [3] Gassman AG was bought out by Fredy Bayard, an entrepreneur from Valais, in 2020. He had previously bought out the publishing company that owned the Walliser Bote  [ de ] two years prior. [1] The paper's archives pre-1996 were made available through the archival service e-newspaperarchives.ch in 2021; no archives of the paper exist for the period of 1871-1875. [1]

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