Le Temps
Le Temps is a French-language daily newspaper based in Geneva, Switzerland. Regarded as a leading quality title in French-speaking Switzerland, it offers in-depth coverage of national and international politics, economics, and culture aimed at an informed readership. It maintains a reputation for serious, analytical journalism.
Le Temps at a glance
- Country
- Switzerland
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1998
- Owner
- Fondation Aventinus
- Published from
- Lausanne
- Website
- letemps.ch ↗
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How Crosswire groups Le Temps
Crosswire groups Le Temps as Centrist for comparisons within Switzerland'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 Switzerland, NZZ is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Le Temps beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Le Temps sits in Switzerland's press
Le Temps was founded in 1998, is published from Lausanne and is owned by Fondation Aventinus. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Switzerland, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being NZZ. By outlets tracked, Switzerland ranks 30th 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 Le Temps outside Switzerland, starting with Western Europe, are NRC (Netherlands), La Libre (Belgium), Der Standard (Austria) and Luxembourg Times (Luxembourg). Opening one of them beside Le Temps is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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