La Presse (Canadian newspaper)
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| Type | Monday-Saturday newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet and Tablet digital |
| Owner(s) |
Power Corporation of Canada (Gesca Limitée) |
| Editor | André Pratte |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | 7, rue Saint-Jacques Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 1K9 |
| Circulation | 204,948 daily, 263,888 Saturday in 2011 |
| ISSN | 0317-9249 |
| OCLC number | 299333147 |
| Website | lapresse |
La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language daily newspaper published Mondays through Saturdays in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned today by Groupe Gesca, a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. A Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009.
La Presse is a broadsheet newspaper, aimed at an educated, middle-class readership. Its main competitor is the daily tabloid Le Journal de Montréal, which aims at a more populist audience. La Presse comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, and other themes. Its Saturday edition can contain over 10 sections.
The newspaper's website, www.lapresse.ca, operates as a company-wide portal which publishes news and editorial content from all of Gesca's local newspapers.
The paper was founded on October 20, 1884 by William-Edmond Blumhart. Trefflé Berthiaume took over in 1889. The fledgling newspaper's circulation would soon pass that of its main competitor of the time, La Patrie.
In April 1901, the paper organised a cruise to Quebec City (Croisière de La Presse). It also organised a charity to give Christmas gifts to poor children (L'Oeuvre des étrennes aux enfants pauvres).
A front-page illustration on the December 3, 1904 issue celebrated the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of Immaculate Conception. The practice of the time was to have an illustration on the front page, rather than a photograph.
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