La Presse de Tunisie

La Presse, founded in 1934, is a large-circulation French-language daily newspaper published in Tunis, Tunisia.

[1] La Presse de Tunisie was founded in 1934[2] by Henri Smadja, a Tunisian and French Jewish doctor and lawyer, born in Tunisia, who became the owner of the daily newspaper Combat.

The paper, based in Tunis,[3] was close to the Constitutional Democratic Rally.

[5] However, the owner of the daily is the government of Tunisia,[3][6] more specifically the state-owned company SNIPE.

[2] In addition, the president of the paper, Mohammad Nejib Ouerghi, worked for state-owned newspapers before the deportation of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.