{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Switzerland}} {{About|the Swiss newspaper|the Chinese newspaper formerly known as L'Impartial|Ta Kung Pao}} {{Expand French|date=June 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = L'Impartial | logo = L'Impartial.svg | caption = Logo of L'Impartial | type = Daily newspaper | owners = Société neuchâteloise de presse SA | founder = Alexandre Courvoisier | founded = 1881 | language = Swiss French | headquarters = La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel | publishing_country = Switzerland | sister_newspapers = ''L'Express'' | ISSN = 1053-3222 | oclc = 22333479 | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''{{Lang|fr|L'Impartial}}''' ({{Literal translation|The Impartial}}) was a Swiss French language daily newspaper published by {{Lang|fr|Société neuchâteloise de presse SA}} in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel. Published since 1881, it was a sister newspaper to ''L'Express.'' The last edition of the newspaper was published on 22 January 2018. It merged with ''L'Express'' to create ''ArcInfo''.
== History == The paper was founded by Alexandre Courvoisier in 1881 in La Chaux-de-Fonds.<ref name=":2">{{Historical Dictionary of Switzerland|024803|date=2007-10-30|author=Bollinger, Ernst}}</ref> The publisher of the paper took over the Le Locle paper {{Lang|fr|Feuille d'Avis des Montagnes}} in 1967, giving its publisher a monopoly of journalism in the northern part of the canton. In 1992, Gassman AG (owner of the {{Lang|de|Bieler Tagblatt}} and {{Lang|de|Journal du Jura}} newspapers) bought a majority of shares in {{Lang|fr|L'Impartial}}.<ref name=":2" />
In 1996, it partially merged with another Neuchâtel newspaper, ''{{Lang|fr|L'Express}}''. Afterwards, the two papers shared much of the same content and an editorial team, but differed in some of their regional coverage. No jobs were lost at either paper in the process of the merger.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2017-08-18 |title=Fusion et restructuration en vue pour les journaux neuchâtelois |trans-title=Neuchâtel newspapers to merge and restructure |url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2017/08/18/fusion-restructuration-vue-journaux-neuchatelois |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818101034/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2017/08/18/fusion-restructuration-vue-journaux-neuchatelois |archive-date=2017-08-18 |access-date=2017-08-19 |work=Le Temps |location=Geneva |language=fr-CH |issn=1423-3967 |agency=ATS}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2018-01-18 |title=Presse neuchâteloise: L'Impartial et L'Express fusionnent pour donner naissance à ArcInfo |trans-title=Neuchâtel press: L'Impartial and L'Express merge to create ArcInfo |url=https://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/suisse/presse-neuchateloise-l-impartial-et-l-express-fusionnent-pour-donner-naissance-a-arcinfo-729765 |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=Le Nouvelliste |location=Sion |language=fr-CH |issn=1661-500X}}</ref> The publishing companies behind both papers merged in 1999, forming the {{Lang|fr|Société neuchâteloise de presse SA}}.<ref name=":2" />
It merged with {{Lang|fr|L'Express}} to create ''ArcInfo'' in 2018. This was announced in August 2017 in an op-ed printed in both papers by the co-editor-in-chief Stéphane Devaux, who said things would change at the papers and that they were "in the middle of a vast project", opening up the possibility of merging their distribution.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The name ''ArcInfo'' was the name already used for the online versions of both publications.<ref name=":1" /> The last edition of the newspaper was published on 22 January 2018.<ref name=":1" /> In 2005 its circulation was 16,530.<ref name=":2" />
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website}} * {{e-npa.ch|id=IMP}}
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