[1] It was created in Bordeaux, on August 29, 1944, by Jacques Lemoine, as a successor to La Petite Gironde.

Sud Ouest covers the Gironde, the Charente, the Charente-Maritime, the Dordogne, the Lot et Garonne, the Landes and the Pyrénées Atlantiques départements.

[3] The newspaper Sud Ouest distinguishes itself by a coverage more thorough than usual for a French local daily of the national and international news.

Politically, the paper is rather neutral although it has once compared Bruno Mégret with Philippe Henriot after a meeting of the Front National in Bordeaux in the 1990s.

It features an editorial cartoonist, Michel Iturria, and a regular opinion column signed by Franck de Bondt.