La Presse de Tunisie

La Presse, founded in 1934, is a large-circulation French-language daily newspaper published in Tunis, Tunisia.[1]

La Presse de Tunisie
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherMohamed Gontara
EditorJawhar Chatty
Founded1934 (1934)
LanguageFrench
HeadquartersTunis, Tunisia
ISSN0330-9991
WebsiteLa Presse
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History

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]

See also

References
  1. Daniel Jacobs; Peter Morris (2001). The Rough Guide to Tunisia. Rough Guides. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-85828-748-5. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  2. Edward Webb (11 April 2014). Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-137-40996-6. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  3. "Tunisia". Press Reference. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  4. Fatima el-Issawi (July 2012). "Tunisian Media in Transition" (PDF). Carnegie Endowment. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  5. Sengupta, Kim (20 January 2011). "Tunisian media throw off censor's shackles after decades of fear and collaboration". The Independent. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
  6. "Tunisia profile. Media". BBC. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  7. Othman Tazghart (9 January 2012). "Tunisian Media: A Re-run of Ben Ali Policies". Al Akhbar. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
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