What is a local media (3): Liberty Daily Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Press
. La Liberté est un quotidien suisse romand, en langue French, published in Freiburg since 1871. It is independent of the major newspaper groups. The newspaper is sold 2.5 francs (CHF) on weekdays and 3.7 on Saturdays (approximately € 1.9 and 2.8). It appears six days a week from Monday to Saturday.
Annual subscription $ 378 FS. Note that a discount is granted on request
, to under 22 and students (as well as unemployed). Friday
number includes a 16-page insert "TV selection" which provides the programs for the week ahead. Saturday,
TV8, the supplement is sold TV with the daily (86 000 copies sold) and it gives a detailed record of a hundred pages, the programs for the week ahead. The first section of this magazine, content
celebrities, games, etc.. seems to meet an advertising success.
The controlled circulation of daily life (
certified Remp , Research and Media Studies Advertising) for 2009-2010 is 39 000. The readership of 101,000 people. With annual circulation greater than 2:
title generates little free readings. Readership is growing (7.5% over ten years).
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competition comes from regional
La Gruyère , tri-weekly south-Fribourg (34 000 readers) but also
24 Hours The daily Vaudois in Lausanne, on areas bordering the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg (regions of Avenches-Pagan-Moudon-Oron). The Freiburger Nachrichten
, which aims the German-speaking population in the region of Fribourg, saw its readership increase (41,000 people).
- The face value is what most surprises a regular French media: the local newspaper is more expensive in France than in Switzerland.
- second surprise: no aid from the state, unlike France. Only postal rates adjusted, as everywhere in the world.
- Press that does not lose ground, while the larger regional and national titles, free ( 20 minutes) or paying ( La Tribune de Genève ) are experiencing significant declines in distribution
number of Friday (counting those performed on November 12 and December 17) has 32 pages divided as usual into 4 sections (books): first section of national and international, a section regions, one for Sport, the last section has a page "Youth", a movie page, a page of television programs, a multimedia page, a last page with the general weather and three pages of advertising.
The daily welcomes a total of 6 pages of advertising (32). In the issue of Saturday, the fourth section is ititulée "Culture Magazine" (8 pages).
Freedom is partially broken down into free Internet access (
http://laliberte.ch/ ). An annual subscription to the PDF version of the title is sold at 199 francs (against 378 for the print edition). The cost of access to the PDF for subscribers to the printed version is 35 francs.
The site home page for many clickable thumbnails (small format). Classified ads, jobs. Of places (thematic classification). The title is on Facebook.
Only the section "Regions" is truly local, part of the sports information as well (in competition with the pages of Sport
Morning ). Advertising and the ads are local. Everything else is supra-regional (with French titles: Liberation
, Rue 89
and La Libre Belgique ). For information on Switzerland,
Freedom working in a pool comprising editorial and regional non pubicitaire Lake Geneva, he also has decentralized editorial in Lausanne, Bern, Payerne, Bulle and Romont.
Archives are scanned from 1871 to 1920, making local and regional history accessible to all.
In summary, to confront our approach with a regional
American and a French regional
:
- The positioning of the title is deliberately general and multi-dimensional local (Freiburg), regional, national and international . The reader has with this journal offers a comprehensive informational.
- The title sells more than a French regional newspaper (for comparison, the annual subscription Public Good, of Burgundy regional daily amounts to 306 €).
- Title maintains and improves its position in the media market Despite the development of digital competition, local television (the TV has ) and the free press. "signiifie This very well that we inhabit our economic zone," explains Nancy Zürcher (marketing manager).
- Scanning seems to be set up carefully, slowly perhaps. This is probably to be in phase with the readership. However, given the importance of the university population in the area of digital initiatives boldest would, perhaps, to extend the readership of the newspaper and modernize the image of the region. The "infomania", which allows aux lecteurs témoins d'un événement d'alerter les journalistes par téléphone, pourrait aisément devenir la base d'un dispositif de crowd sourcing de l'info locale et régionale.