L'Echo

L'Echo
Type	Daily business newspaper
Format	Berliner format
Owner(s)	Mediafin
Founded	22 May 1881; 143 years ago
Language	French
Headquarters	Brussels
Circulation	18,736 (second half of 2012)
Sister newspapers	De Tijd
Website	L'Echo

L'Echo is a Belgian business newspaper, published by Mediafin and mainly distributed in Wallonia and Brussels. It is the French counterpart of the Flemish daily De Tijd which is its sister paper.

History and profile

L'Echo originated as L'Écho de la bourse de Bruxelles (lit. 'The Brussels Stock Exchange Echo') which was first published on 22 May 1881.^[1] It was renamed L'Écho de la Bourse (lit. 'The Stock Exchange Echo') in 1889 and retained the name until 1990 when the paper adopted its current title. It is owned by Mediafin which is also the owner of the Flemish business daily De Tijd.^[2] Both papers offer financial and economic news.^[3]

L'Echo is headquartered in Brussels.^[1] In March 2012 it began to be published in Berliner format.^[3]

Circulation

L'Echo sold 260,000 copies in 1990.^[4] The paper had a circulation of 28,765 copies and a market share of 4.5% in 2002.^[5] The paper had a 18,736 copies in the second half of 2012.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Media Landscape Media Claims" (PDF). European Social Survey. May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
^ "L'Echo and de Tijd named media of the year". Adnative. 10 February 2014. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b "New sizes for L'Echo and De Tijd". Adnative. 29 March 2012. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
^ Pierre Musso; Philippe Souêtre; Lionel Levasseur (1995). The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe. Council of Europe. p. 133. ISBN 978-92-871-2807-2. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Dutch Media Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.