L'Express (Neuchâtel)

L' Express (actually L' Express et Feuille d' avis de Neuchâtel, called The German Express and Neuchâtel indicator ) is a daily newspaper published in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and the oldest still published newspaper in French. It belongs to the Hersant Group.

History

The Feuille d' Avis de Neuchâtel, founded in 1738 by François- Louis Lichtenhan appeared daily since 1884. In 1928 was the run 13,000 copies. 1966 took over the Express founded in 1891 and absorbed this appears at the end as an evening newspaper in 1971. Recently renamed the Feuille d' Avis de Neuchâtel under the symbol FAN L'Express (short- FAN). On the occasion of the 250th anniversary reversed the FAN 1988 main and subtitles and called since L' Express et Feuille d' avis de Neuchâtel ( short L' Express). Always independently ( Feuille d' Avis, advertising paper '), however, the newspaper tended to be conservative until recent days.

In 1996, a close journalistic and technical cooperation between L' Express and its journalistic rivals of the liberal Neuchâtel mountains, appearing in La Chaux- de-Fonds, L'Impartial (' The Independent '). To smooth the political waves, the two regional editions carry not only continue the ancestral name, but differ except in the local section in the comments to cantonal affairs to safeguard the regional political balance between conservative "See" and liberal " mountains ". The shell part and the production takes place in Neuchâtel. Since February 7, 2007 is also published in Biel Le Journal du Jura, the daily newspaper for the Bernese Jura, integrated in the same way as the top sheet.

Back in 1999, took over the family Wolfrath, since 1814 owned by the Neuchâtel sheet, the Impartial and led both to the New Burger Press Society ( Société neuchâteloise de presse ). In spring 2002, the owner's family Wolfrath has ' sold the publisher of the Express to the French Hersant Group. According to reports Fabien Wolfrath has maneuvered with the construction of a new newspaper press, which was only about five hours a day in operating in a financially weak position and there was no family successor. 2011 was the WEMF - certified edition 20'628 pieces.