Press of Armor

the Press of Armor is a local weekly magazine French of Brittany whose seat is located at Paimpol in the Coast-with Armor.
The zone of diffusion of the periodical is localized on the cantons of Paimpol, Plouha, Cattle shed-on-Sea, Lanvollon, Lézardrieux, Tréguier and Pontrieux. Each week (Wednesday), the Press of Armor publishes Leitartikeces on the economic life and social in its zone of diffusion but also on the artistic and cultural events. It accompanies local associations in their various demonstrations and is entitled to publish legal advertisements.

History

It is on May 6th, 1877 that Jean-Louis Flem, printer with Paimpol, Place of Martray, creates the Newspaper of Paimpol , “newspaper maritime, commercial, industrial, agricultural and literary”.

The newspaper appears Sunday and is then sold 10 centimes. Drawn at the time to a few hundreds from specimens only, it counts each week four pages (sometimes even two at the time of the war 14-18 or in periods of shortage). Like its counterparts of the time, the Newspaper of Paimpol is not carried out by journalists. It publishes dispatches of news agencies, facts various, official statements transmitted by the town halls, the administrations and local associations.

It is not, like today, a newspaper of local information. The reports of topicality are very rare. It is the same of the articles reporting the local great events.

the Newspaper of Paimpol wants to be resolutely republican and it accompanies the Third Republic in our country.

With the German occupation, during the Second world war, the Newspaper of Paimpol cease to appear at the beginning of 1942. It will appear again with the release under a new title: the Press Paimpolaise .

Remained since the origin with the hands of the family Flem, the newspaper and commercial printing works are repurchased the shortly after the war by Henri Cotel. The company then will settle street of the Quay. Jacques Mauger buys the business on June 1st, 1949. This one will remain the owner and the director until his retirement with beginning of the year 80.

In 1973, the Press Paimpolaise settles on the new industrial park, street Pierre Mendès France.

In 1977, the weekly magazine wants to be newspaper of country and becomes the Press of Armor . The photographic illustration makes its appearance in a newspaper which had hardly changed its form during its first century of existence. Hitherto realized prints some (with lead), the newspaper passes to photocomposition during a few years.

the Press of Armor from now on will be diffused on the cantons of Paimpol, Lézardrieux, Tréguier, Pontrieux, Plouha, Lanvollon, and since the summer 1996, the canton of Cattle shed-on-Sea.

In autumn 1988, the Press of Armor belongs to the very first newspapers in France to adopt the page layout computer-assisted.

With beginning of the year 80, the group Ouest-France repurchases the newspaper as well as printing works. Under the impulse of the two recently engaged journalists, Jean Lallouët and Daniel Thépaut, the Press of Armor takes a new tone. The journalists and their network of correspondents are the witnesses of the local life and are not satisfied any more to record official press releases of the town halls and associations.

In August 1990, Yvon Jacob, journalist with the Press of Armor since 1987, becomes editor association. Under its impulse, the newspaper will reinforce its local anchoring and will become an essential component of the democratic debate in the area of Paimpol (if one considers the number of opinion columns published each week).

In October 1998, Christian Bouzols takes again the torch for three years and creates a new model.

Since the new team settled, with the beginning of the year 2000, Place Gambetta au center town of Paimpol. New technologies of information and the communication continue to be integrated in the creative process and of manufacture of the newspaper.

External bonds

the One of the weekly magazine the press of Armor is at your disposal each week on TV TREGOR.

See too

regional Written press in France

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