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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Coopérative Nationale de l’information indépendante |
| Editor | Marie-Claude Lortie |
| Founded | March 27, 1913 |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | 425, boulevard Saint-Joseph Bureau 201 Gatineau, Quebec J8Y 3Z8 |
| Circulation | 35,829 weekdays 35,810 weekend days (as of 2011)[1] |
| ISSN | 0839-4865 |
| Website | ledroit |
Le Droit is a Canadian French-language digital weekly newspaper, published in Gatineau, Quebec. Initially established and owned by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the paper was published by Martin Cauchon and his company, Capitales Médias, from 2015 - 2019, when a cooperative was formed by the employees to continue publishing the paper.
Formerly published in Ottawa, Ontario, for much of its history, it was the only francophone daily newspaper published in Ontario for the Franco-Ontarian community. Amid the context of the media profitability crunch of the late 2010s, it closed its Ottawa offices in 2019, moving across the river to Gatineau in order to qualify for special tax credits being offered by the government of Quebec to preserve endangered media outlets, although the newspaper reiterated that it would continue to cover Ottawa-related news.[2]
The newspaper switched from daily to weekly publication in 2020, and dropped print issues to become digital-only at the end of 2023.[3]
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations e-Circ data Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine for the six months ending September 30, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ "Quebec Superior Court decision stirs mixed feelings for Le Droit staff". CBC News, December 26, 2019.
- ^ "Le Droit goes digital after more than a century in print". CBC News Ottawa, December 30, 2023.