Канаданың «La Presse» газеті

Canadian newspaper

La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by an independent nonprofit trust. La Presse was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009, and the weekday edition in 2016. The weekend Saturday printed edition was discontinued on 31 December 2017, turning La Presse into an entirely online newspaper.

La Presse is published on its website, lapresse. ca, and its mobile app, La Presse Mobile. The newspaper targets an educated, middle class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, the tabloid format Le Journal de Montréal, which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left leaning broadsheet Le Devoir. La Presse comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, business and economy and other themes. Its Saturday print edition (now discontinued) contained over 10 sections. The newspaper's archives from 2000 to 2019 are available on its website.

The editorial board of La Presse has been consistently supportive of Canadian federalism over the past 25 years, though individual columnists may freely express less sympathy. The newspaper's editorials endorsed the federalist option in both the 1980 Quebec referendum and the 1995 Quebec referendum which were held on the issue of Quebec's national sovereignism. The editorial board leaves room for the whole spectrum of opinions. It supported same sex marriage legislation in Canada, the protests against the War in Iraq, and criticized both sides in the 2012 Quebec student protests. The paper endorsed the Conservative Party in the 2006 election. This was primarily out of a reasoning that the Canadian government was in need of a necessary change after more than 12 years of Liberal rule. Similarly, with Stephen Harper's Conservatives having been in power for nine years at the time, La Presse endorsed Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party in the 2015 election. Guy Crevier is currently the editor, and François Cardinal is the assistant editor. Noted journalists associated with the paper include Patrick Lagacé, Yves Boisvert, Agnès Gruda and Lysiane Gagnon.

The newspaper's television production arm, La Presse Télé, has produced the series [[Dumont 360, hosted by former politician Mario Dumont, for the Quebec television network V (formerly TQS). The division, which had changed its name to LP8 Média, was sold to Attraction Images in 2014.