'The Impartial') was a Swiss French language daily newspaper published by Société neuchâteloise de presse SA in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel.

In 1992, Gassman AG (owner of the Bieler Tagblatt and Journal du Jura newspapers) bought a majority of shares in L'Impartial.

Afterwards, the two papers shared much of the same content and an editorial team, but differed in some of their regional coverage.

[2][3] The publishing companies behind both papers merged in 1999, forming the Société neuchâteloise de presse SA.

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.