[3] During the Lebanese Civil War, the paper was closed down by the occupying Syrian Army for a brief period in 1976,[4] before publication was resumed.

L'Orient–Le Jour journalist Caroline Hayek was awarded the Albert Londres Prize for her coverage of the 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut .

[6] The paper covers politics, local and international news, finance and economics, culture, entertainment as well as sports.

[7] According to the Arab Press Network, an offshoot of WAN-IFRA, it is the most widely read Francophone daily newspaper in Lebanon and is "partisan to a liberal, Christian leaning line.

Topics that are still taboo in Lebanon, such as homosexuality, domestic violence, suicide and abortion, regularly appear in its columns.