Le Nouveau Quotidien (NQ) was a French-language Swiss daily newspaper founded in September 1991, published out of Lausanne.

It was published by Edipresse, with the French newspaper Libération and the media group Ringier also having financial interest and collaboration with its publication.

'The New Daily') was eventually decided on, as that was what the press had already called it for several months at that point, and they deemed it an advertising advantage.

[1] It aimed at covering topics related to the interests of the Romandy, but also broader political issues beyond Switzerland's borders.

[5] In May 1993, the paper was changed to publish on Mondays but not weekends, to come into effect the next month; this was attributed to the habits of the readership and increases in distribution costs.

[6] An additional 16 page supplement, Le Nouveau Vendredi, was to be introduced to replace one of the removed Sunday sections.

[11] They complained that their efforts to combat the merger were ignored, and that there had been new editorial projects being prepared; they also said the JdG had been moving towards a more balanced economic position and that it should be maintained.

Its editorial society denounced a trend of "transforming newspapers into products", and that by merging their 170-year history paper had been integrated "into the Edipresse machine".

[12] The Competition Commission accepted the merger in December 1997, as despite the fact that it gave Edipresse an advantage the JdG was unlikely to survive given the market conditions, so it was the least harmful option; the two conditions imposed by the CC were that any change in the capital structure of the new publication had to be authorized by the them, and that the chairman of the board of the directors would be independent of the shareholders.

[13] Jacques Pilet attributed its failure to find success to the economic issues Switzerland faced in the 1990s, and expressed thanks to both the editors and readers of the paper.

It had five main sections, covering politics, the economy, society and culture, events of the day, and an opinion column.

[4] The paper had a high reputation for its standards and its coverage of a variety of topics, including its business section and opinion journalism.