La Presse de Tunisie

What is La Presse de Tunisie?

La Presse de Tunisie is a French-language daily newspaper published in Tunis. Its site describes it as follows: “Quotidien national francophone fondé en 1936, La Presse est une référence du journalisme tunisien.” The second half of that sentence is the newspaper's own description of itself.^[1]

The site gives its address as 17 Rue Garibaldi, 1007 Tunis, and names a president-director general and a principal editor-in-chief.^[1] The Media Ownership Monitor for Tunisia, published in 2016 by Reporters Without Borders and Al Khatt, lists La Presse among the ten print titles it analysed.^[5] The monitor's page for the title could not be retrieved, and no other source for its ownership was found, so no ownership statement is made here.

Its site is divided into sections for news, society, economy, culture, sport, technology, motoring, world news and editorials, with a separate magazine.^[2]

What does La Presse de Tunisie cover?

Sport is published on the path lapresse.tn/category/sport. As retrieved on 27 September 2026, the ten latest items were dated 25 and 26 September 2026.^[2]

Football. They included the retirement of an international footballer, the opening fixture of Group A of the Ligue 2, a report of the national team's point against Uganda in the qualifiers for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, a signing by the Étoile du Sahel, an item on two players at CA Bizertin, and a report headlined “Aigles de Carthage : La FTF appelle à l'union et au fair-play”.^[2] Its Ligue 2 preview of the same day states: “La journée inaugurale de Ligue 2 débute cet après-midi.” It previews the Group A opening match between AS Soliman and US Tataouine.^[9] The federation report states that the Fédération Tunisienne de Football called on supporters to back the national team and to reject verbal violence and hateful language.^[3]

Other sports. The same list carried a triathlon item on a gold medal at a World Triathlon Development Regional Cup, an item reporting that an Arab open-water swimming championship had been postponed, and two volleyball items.^[2] The volleyball report of 25 September 2026 states that the men's team beat Cameroon “sur le score de 3 sets à 0 (25-22, 25-18, 25-19), en finale disputée vendredi au Palais des sports d'El Menzah”, and that “Grâce à cette victoire, la Tunisie décroche directement son billet pour les Jeux Olympiques de Los Angeles 2028”.^[4]

How large is La Presse de Tunisie's audience?

No audited circulation, readership or web-traffic figure for La Presse de Tunisie was retrieved. SIGMA Conseil describes a press measurement based on “enquêtes quotidiennes sur les habitudes de lecture de la presse auprès d'un échantillon représentatifs des individus urbains ayant un âge supérieur à 15 ans”, daily surveys of the reading habits of urban people over 15, with reports delivered quarterly.^[8] No result of that survey for any title was retrieved; the SIGMA Conseil figures retrieved, as the trade press reported them for June 2025, concern radio.^[6]

The Media Ownership Monitor's print page states: “Selon des estimations, environ 50 journaux existent et quelques 100.000 exemplaires sont vendus chaque jour.” That is an estimate for the whole print market, published in 2016, not a figure for this title.^[5]

Since when has La Presse de Tunisie existed?

The newspaper states on its own site that it was founded in 1936: “Quotidien national francophone fondé en 1936”.^[1] No independent source for the founding year was retrieved, and the date is the newspaper's own.

The Media Ownership Monitor lists the title in 2016.^[5] Its site was publishing daily sport reports in September 2026.^[2]

Why does La Presse de Tunisie matter in Tunisia's sport?

It is a national daily in French, by its own description, that publishes a daily sport section covering the domestic football divisions, the national team and other federations' teams.^[1][2] In September 2026 it carried the report of the men's African volleyball final at El Menzah and the federation's appeal to supporters before the national team's matches.^[4][3]

Reporters Without Borders ranked Tunisia 137th of 180 in its 2026 index. It writes of the country's media: “The media depends on private sector advertisers, including some who have shares in the media and ties with political figures — a situation that undermines editorial independence.” The RSF entry that was read does not name La Presse. RSF also writes: “The deterioration of the political environment continues with Decree-Law 54 of September 2022, which is meant to combat "fake news" but poses a new major threat to press freedom.”^[7]