Le Matin

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Matin, Le. Launched in 1884, this newspaper championed ‘Anglo-Saxon’ news-values; adorned by pictures of telegraph wires, and boasting correspondents world-wide, Le Matin initially had no romans-feuilletons and was politically eclectic. Its owner, Alfred Edwards, sold out to fellow press tycoons Henry Poidatz and Maurice Bunau-Varilla. The latter, France's closest approximation to ‘Citizen Kane’, ran Le Matin until 1944, when it was closed down. He played the media mogul, megalomaniac, and bully-boy, boasting ‘my empire is worth three thrones’. In 1899 Le Matin slashed its sale-price to 5 centimes and grew to six pages. After a bitter war with Le Journal, its circulation was 1.6 million in 1916. Its aggressive nationalism took the paper ever further to the Right and to collaboration during the Occupation. Before 1914 Gaston Leroux was one of its star-reporters and novelists (Chéri-Bibi, etc.), as later was Joseph Kessel.

[Michael Palmer]

Le Matin ("The Morning") is a daily newspaper published by Edipresse in Lausanne, Switzerland. The French language tabloid has a circulation of 69,350 and a readership of 331,000.

The Sunday edition Le Matin dimanche has a circulation of 207,945.

Since 31 October 2005, Edipresse also edits Le Matin Bleu, a free daily newspaper distributed in the most populated areas of Romandy. However, despite the similar names between the new newspapers, they are edited independently.

External links

• http://www.lematin.ch

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