20-459: La Libre Belgique ( French pronunciation: [la libʁ bɛlʒik] ; lit. ' The Free Belgium ' ), currently sold under the name La Libre , is a quality French-language Belgian daily newspaper . Together with Le Soir , it is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in both Brussels and Wallonia . La Libre was founded in 1884 and has historically had a centre-right Christian Democratic political stance. The papers
40-605: A compact format , the same size as the tabloids. The Independent and The Times were the first to do so. The Guardian moved in September 2005 to what is described as a ' Berliner ' format, slightly larger than a compact. Its Sunday stablemate The Observer followed suit. Both The Guardian and The Observer now use the tabloid format, having done so since January 2018. Despite these format changes, these newspapers are all still considered 'broadsheets'. Other Sunday broadsheets, including The Sunday Times , which tend to have
60-562: A Mancunian paper, the Manchester Evening News , until 2010 when along with its other local newspapers in the Greater Manchester area it was sold to Trinity Mirror . (morning) Papurau Bro ('Area Papers') are Welsh language newspapers produced nominally monthly (typically 10 issues a year with a summer break) which cover the news in a small area - a town, group of parishes, one or a few valleys, etc. - with
80-525: A circulation of perhaps a few thousand each. There are between 50 and 60 Papurau Bro which cover the whole of Wales, plus the Welsh communities of Liverpool and London. Papers are frequently named after local features, connections, crafts, etc., or in dialect ( clebran, clecs, clochdar, and clonc ; all imply 'gossip'). The first papur bro ( Y Dinesydd ) appeared in 1973 in Cardiff , and the following decade saw
100-408: A large amount of supplementary sections, have kept their larger-sized format. The national Sunday titles usually have a different layout and style from their weekday sister papers, and are produced by separate journalistic and editorial staff. All the major UK newspapers currently have websites, some of which provide free access. The Times and The Sunday Times have a paywall requiring payment on
120-682: A payment subscription, such as crosswords , Sudoku puzzles, weekend supplements and the ability to automatically download each daily edition to read offline. The London Economic is another example of a British digital/online only newspaper; however, unlike The Independent it has never run a print publication. Most towns and cities in the UK have at least one local newspaper, such as the Evening Post in Bristol and The Echo in Cardiff . Local newspapers were listed in advertising guides such as
140-411: A per-day or per-month basis by non-subscribers. The Financial Times business daily also has limited access for non-subscribers. The Independent became available online only upon its last printed edition on 26 March 2016. However, unlike the previously mentioned newspapers, it does not require any payment to access its news content. Instead the newspaper offers extras for those wishing to sign up to
160-471: Is particularly celebrated for its role as an underground newspaper during World War I and World War II when Belgium was occupied. Since 1999, the newspaper has become increasingly liberal but is still considered more conservative than Le Soir . The modern La Libre traces its origins to the Le Patriote newspaper, founded by Victor and Louis Jourdain in 1884. Politically, the newspaper supported
180-558: Is published six times per week (from Monday to Saturday) by the IPM publishing group and has its headquarters in Brussels. The current editor in chief is Dorian de Meeûs. An online edition of the paper was started in 2001. The paper has been published in a compact format since 2002. La Libre was noted widely as one of the papers involved in a feud with Google relating to which content that could be linked and cached by Google. In July 2011,
200-482: The La Libre Belgique of Peter Pan (after the fictional editor's name given on the masthead ) achieved a circulation of 10,000 to 30,000 copies. 85 bi-monthly issues were published. After the war, La Libre Belgique supported the mainstream Christian Social Party and, until 1999, the paper had a strong Christian Democratic stance. Currently the newspaper has a centrist editorial policy. La Libre
220-642: The Mitchell's Press Directories . They are not known nationally for their journalism in the way that (despite much syndication ) some city-based newspapers in the USA are (e.g. The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , Los Angeles Times ). An exception to this was the Manchester Guardian , which dropped the 'Manchester' from its name in 1959 and relocated its main operations to London in 1964. The Guardian Media Group produced
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#1732775515215240-517: The United Kingdom . Others circulate in Scotland only and still others serve smaller areas. National daily newspapers publish every day except Sundays and 25 December. Sunday newspapers may be independent; e.g. The Observer was an independent Sunday newspaper from its founding in 1791 until it was acquired by The Guardian in 1993, but more commonly, they have the same owners as one of
260-667: The 'popular press', which have tended to focus more on celebrity coverage and human interest stories rather than political reporting or overseas news. The tabloids in turn have been divided into the more sensationalist mass market titles, or 'red tops', such as The Sun and the Daily Mirror , and the middle-market papers , the Daily Express and the Daily Mail . Most of the broadsheets, so called because of their historically larger size, have changed in recent years to
280-405: The daily newspapers, usually with a related name (e.g. The Times and The Sunday Times ), but are editorially distinct. UK newspapers can generally be split into two distinct categories: the more serious and intellectual newspapers, usually referred to as the broadsheets , and sometimes known collectively as the " quality press ", and others, generally known as tabloids , and collectively as
300-639: The dominant centre-right Catholic Party . After the German invasion of Belgium in World War I , Le Patriote was banned by the German occupation authorities . In February 1915, however, it was re-founded in secret by the Jourdain brothers as an underground newspaper called La Libre Belgique ("Free Belgium"). The new title was an allusion to a collaborationist paper called La Belgique ("Belgium"). A total of 171 issues of La Libre Belgique appeared during
320-480: The occupation. It soon became famous as an example of Belgian resistance. Several weeks before the end of the hostilities, both of the Jourdain brothers died of natural causes. Their work was continued by Victor’s two sons Joseph and Paul Jourdain. The newspaper was also published secretly in German-occupied Belgium during World War II in a number of unofficial editions. The largest, known as
340-497: The paper had a circulation of 35,500 with an online traffic of 1-5 million. In 2022, the paper had a circulation of 23,198 copies according to official IPM documents. Aspects of the newspaper's history reflecting the Belgian Resistance appeared in the 1942 feature film Uncensored and the 1941 documentary short Out of Darkness , part of The Passing Parade series. Quality press The quality press or
360-401: The paper was totally removed from Google News and Google's normal web search. La Libre Belgique reached a record circulation of 190,000 copies in 1959. In 1990 the paper sold 170,000 copies. However, by 1999 it had dropped to 68,212 copies. The 2002 circulation of the paper was 61,463 copies with a market share of 9.6 percent. The circulation of the paper was 42,000 in copies in 2010. In 2016,
380-462: The qualities are British newspapers in national circulation distinguished by their seriousness. The category used to be called " broadsheet " until several papers adopted a tabloid printing format. Both The Times and The Independent adopted a tabloid format in 2004. The Guardian adopted a Berliner format in 2005, before switching to tabloid in January 2018. Circulation figures for
400-614: The quality press have been falling in recent times, and in December 2009 it was reported that readership of The Guardian , The Independent , The Times , and Financial Times had decreased over the previous 12 months. This United Kingdom newspaper–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of newspapers in the United Kingdom Twelve daily newspapers and eleven Sunday-only weekly newspapers are distributed nationally in
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