L'essentiel
L'essentiel is a free daily newspaper and news website in Luxembourg, published primarily in French alongside German-language content. Aimed at a broad commuter and general audience, it covers local news, sport, entertainment and lifestyle. With its free distribution model, it is among the most widely read titles in the Grand Duchy's multilingual media landscape.
L'essentiel at a glance
- Country
- Luxembourg
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- lessentiel.lu ↗
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How Crosswire groups L'essentiel
Crosswire groups L'essentiel as Centrist for comparisons within Luxembourg's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Luxembourg, Tageblatt and Le Quotidien are listed as Left-leaning — so you can open L'essentiel beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where L'essentiel sits in Luxembourg's press
L'essentiel is one of 6 outlets tracked in Luxembourg, and one of 5 daily newspapers among them — the others being Luxembourg Times, Luxemburger Wort, Tageblatt and Le Quotidien. By outlets tracked, Luxembourg ranks 15th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to L'essentiel outside Luxembourg, starting with Western Europe, are Le Monde (France), NRC (Netherlands), La Libre (Belgium) and Der Standard (Austria). Opening one of them beside L'essentiel is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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