Le Matin (lit. 'The Morning') is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published by Edipresse in Lausanne, Switzerland. The publication of the daily newspaper Le Matin was stopped on 21 July 2018. The Sunday and on-line versions continue.

History and profile

La Tribune de Lausanne was created in 1893, merging with the daily paper L'Estafette in 1896. In 1912, the paper was bought by Société de la Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne et des Imprimeries réunies, and became a politically independent informational paper, for a generalist audience with lower prices. It received a Sunday edition starting in 1914, Tribune-Dimanche. It was renamed as Tribune-Le Matin in 1972, before being completely renamed Le Matin in 1984. This rename was done in an effort to make the paper seem less local. With this rename the Sunday edition was changed to Le Matin dimanche in 1972. Starting in 1986, it had two supplement magazines for its Sunday edition, Femina and Télé-Top-M. The paper was a daily published in tabloid-format. Between 31 October 2005 and 25 September 2009, Edipresse also published Le Matin Bleu, a free daily newspaper distributed in the most-populated areas of Romandy. However, despite the similar names between the new newspapers, they were edited independently. Le Matin Bleu ceased publication because of the merger of Edipresse with Tamedia, publisher of the competing 20 Minutes. In 1997 Le Matin had a circulation of 67,522 copies. The same year the circulation of Le Matin dimanche was 226,465 copies. The 2006 circulation of Le Matin was 76,194 copies. In 2007 it was 70,012, and Le Matin dimanche had 210,177 copies. Its Sunday supplement Le Matin dimanche had a circulation of 215,024 in 2006. In 2009 Le Matin's circulation was 58,849 copies.