La Montagne (newspaper)

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La Montagne
TypeRegional daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s)Centre France group
Founder(s) Alexandre Varenne
Founded1919;104 years ago (1919)
Political alignment Socialist
LanguageFrench
Headquarters Clermont-Ferrand
Country France
Circulation 140,752(as of 2020)
ISSN 0767-4007
OCLC number 474205368
Website La Montagne

La Montagne is a French language regional daily newspaper based in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The title was selected to reflect its alignment with the ideas of the Montagnards of the French Revolution. [1] The paper has been in circulation since 1919.

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History and profile

La Montagne was established as an independent socialist publication by Alexandre Varenne in 1919. [2] [3] [4] He also served as the editor-in-chief of the paper [3] which is headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand. [5]

La Montagne was censored during World War II when France was occupied by the German forces, and the paper was suspended on 27 August 1943. [3] [6] It was relaunched on 15 September 1944 [3] and became the main daily in Auvergne. [1]

The Centre France group is the owner of La Montagne, which also owns other regional dailies and weeklies. [7] The majority shareholder in the company is the Alexander and Margaret Varenne Foundation. [8] La Montagne began to be published in tabloid format in January 2008. [4]

Circulation

La Montagne sold 246,900 copies in 1990 and 224,000 copies in 1991. [5] The paper sold 209,000 copies in 2000. [9] The circulation of the paper rose to 211,941 copies in 2001 [10] and had a readership of 632,000 the same year. [11] La Montagne sold 206,813 copies in 2002. [10] The paper had a circulation of 204,000 copies during the first quarter of 2006. [12] In the period of 2007-2008 its circulation was 191,000 copies. [13]

Year20092010201120122013201420162017201820192020
Circulation197,424196,108191,927186,233182,600179,862168,759165,390157,392145,385147,735

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  4. 1 2 "La Montagne". Cadeauretro. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 Raymond Kuhn (2006). The Media in France. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 30, 32. ISBN   978-1-134-98053-6.
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  7. ↑ "Media". Clermont-Ferrand. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Company description. Groupe Centre-France (La Montagne SA)". G2Mi. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  9. ↑ Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail, eds. (2003). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi: SAGE Publications. p. 75. ISBN   978-1-4129-3260-8.
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