Le News

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Le News
TypeFree biweekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
EditorEd Girardet
Founded31 October 2013; 10 years ago (2013-10-31)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersLausanne
WebsiteLe News

Le News is an English-language free biweekly newspaper published in Switzerland.

History and profile[edit]

Le News was established on 31 October 2013.[1] It is free and published fortnightly, each second Thursday, in tabloid format.[2][3] The paper, its online news site and its weekly electronic newsletter focus on local and national news. The paper also carries a large entertainment and events section as well as regular humour, lifestyle, property and education sections.[4] The target audience of the paper are those living in the Arc lémanique from Geneva to Montreux.[5] Jeremy McTeague, Daniel Ahlers and Phillip Judd serve as the directors of Le News.[3] Ed Girardet is the managing editor of the paper.

The paper has a print run of 24,000 copies per edition with an estimated readership of 40,000. The weekly electronic newsletter is emailed to over 5,100 recipients each week.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "About Us". Le News. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Le News". Leman News. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Look out for the first edition of Le News this week!". Knowitall. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  4. ^ "Le News – New Publication with Local Swiss News in English". Geneva Communicators Network. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  5. ^ "New English newspaper in Geneva region". SwissNews. November–December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  6. ^ "Are Swiss language divisions increasing?". Forum helveticum. Forum Helveticum. Retrieved 12 June 2014.

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