17-487: Le Soir ( French pronunciation: [lə swaʁ] , lit. ' The Evening ' ) is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Émile Rossel , it was intended as a politically independent source of news. Together with La Libre Belgique , it is one of the country's most popular Francophone newspapers in both Brussels and Wallonia , and since 2005 has been published in Berliner format . It
34-541: 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 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
51-408: 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 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
68-592: Is owned by Rossel & Cie , which also owns several Belgian news outlets, as well as the French paper La Voix du Nord . Le Soir was founded as a free advertising newspaper in 1887. Later it became a paying paper. When Belgium was occupied during the Second World War , Le Soir continued to be published under German censorship, unlike many Belgian newspapers which went underground . The paper, which became known as "Le Soir Volé" (or "Stolen Le Soir"),
85-556: Is seen as liberal and progressive with politically federalist leanings. Reaffirmed on the occasion of the release of the new format on 15 November 2005, Le Soir describes its editorial stance as "a progressive and independent daily newspaper." It describes its aims to be a "counterweight" and "always alert, in line with society". It describes its role as: An evening paper to fight for the rights of man and women, to respect human dignity, freedom of expression, tolerance, multiculturalism, difference The newspaper gained some notoriety on
102-577: 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 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
119-666: 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 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
136-515: The internet after it successfully sued the search engine Google for copyright infringement. The case was built on the fact that Google made parts of the newspaper's website available through its search engine and its Google News service, even after the articles in question had been removed from the newspaper's website. A Belgian judge ruled that this did not conform to Belgian regulations and ordered Google to remove all "copyright violations" from its websites. Google responded by removing all links to
153-578: The newspaper not only from its news service but also from its search index. In response to the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people died on 7 January 2015, some international organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the Index on Censorship called for controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons to be re-published in solidarity with the French satirical magazine and in defense of free speech. The Hamburger Morgenpost included Charlie Hebdo cartoons on its front cover on 8 January and
170-493: 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 the qualities are British newspapers in national circulation distinguished by their seriousness. The category used to be called " broadsheet " until several papers adopted
187-421: 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, 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
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#1732765798370204-426: 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, 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
221-525: 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 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
238-585: The war. The renewed production of the "Free Le Soir ", under Lucien Fuss, restarted on 6 September 1944, just days after the Allied Liberation of Brussels. The publisher of the paper is Rossel company. In the period of 1995–96 Le Soir had a circulation of 182,798 copies. Its 2002 circulation was 130,495 copies with a market share of 20.3%. The circulation of the paper was 104,000 copies in 2003 and 101,000 copies in 2004. Compared to its centre-right Catholic competitor, La Libre Belgique , Le Soir
255-450: Was parodied by the resistance group, the Front de l'Indépendance which in 1943 published a satirical pro-Allied edition of the paper, dubbed the " Faux Soir " (or "Fake Soir"), which was mixed with official copies of the paper and distributed to news kiosks in Brussels. The "Stolen Le Soir " was notable for including Hergé 's The Adventures of Tintin cartoons in serialized form during
272-411: 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 the occupation. It soon became famous as an example of Belgian resistance. Several weeks before the end of the hostilities, both of
289-422: Was subsequently firebombed. Le Soir faced bomb threats for republishing Charlie Hebdo cartoons, including many satirising religion. La Libre Belgique 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
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