| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Mohamed Gontara |
| Editor | Jawhar Chatty |
| Founded | 1934 |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | Tunis, Tunisia |
| ISSN | 0330-9991 |
| Website | La Presse |
La Presse, founded in 1934, is a large-circulation French-language daily newspaper published in Tunis, Tunisia. [1]
La Presse de Tunisie was founded in 1934 [2] by Henri Smadja, a Tunisian and French Jewish doctor and lawyer, born in Tunisia, who went on to become the owner of the daily newspaper Combat . The paper, based in Tunis, [3] was close to the Constitutional Democratic Rally. [1] Its sister paper is Arabic newspaper Assahafah. [2] Before the 2010-2011 Tunisian protests La Presse de Tunisie was published by a state-owned publishing company. [4]
As a result of these protests, the newspaper transformed from being seen as propaganda for Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's government to having editorial independence from the government. [5] However, the owner of the daily is the government of Tunisia, [3] [6] more specifically the state-owned company SNIPE. [2]
In addition, the president of the paper, Mohammad Nejib Ouerghi, worked for state-owned newspapers before the deportion of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. [7]
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