La Voix du Nord (daily)

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La Voix du Nord
Type Regional daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Rossel Group
Founded 1941; 83 years ago (1941)
Language French
Headquarters Lille
Circulation 231,066 (2014)
Website Voix du Nord

La Voix du Nord (French; lit. The Voice of the North or The Voice of the Nord) is a regional daily newspaper from the north of France. Its headquarters are in Lille.[1]

History and profile

Voix du Nord was one of the underground newspapers founded in German-occupied France during World War II. The paper first appeared in Lille in April 1941 at a time when the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was being ruled by a German military government in Brussels.[2] The newspaper's tag-line described itself as the "Resistance organ of French Flanders."[2] The paper is part of the Belgian company, Rossel group,[3] which also owns the major Belgian newspaper Le Soir, that bought it from Socpresse in 2006.

Voix du Nord is published in broadsheet format.[4] The paper sponsors the Grand Prix de Fourmies bicycle race.

Circulation

The 1998 circulation of Voix du Nord was 323,000 copies.[1] It was 332,000 copies in 2000[5] and 320,000 copies in 2001.[4] The circulation of the paper was 307,191 copies in 2002.[6] The paper had a circulation of 315,000 copies in 2003.[7] Its 2014 circualtion was 231,066 copies.[8]

See also

References

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External links

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