Le Mauricien Mauritian Newspaper

Title: Le Mauricien Mauritian Newspaper Category: News / Newspapers PageRank: 5/10 MauritiusRank: 10 Tags: mauricien,newspaper,wes,mauritian newspaper

Le Mauricien is a French-language newspaper, based and distributed in Mauritius. The newspaper, founded in 1908, is released daily and is one of the most read in Mauritius. The publishers, Le Mauricien Ltd., also publish Week-End, Week-End Scope and Turf Magazine.

It is also the most colourful newspaper of the island. It is an independent newspaper with strong editorial content.

Le Mauricien celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2008. It has been edited by some of the country's most reputed writers like Raoul Rivet, Andre Masson, Lindsay Riviere among others. The new editor is Gaetan Seneque as of February 2010. Its editor and director was Raoul Rivet from 1922 to 1957.

"Le Mauricien" adopted the offset press in 1978 and subsequently experienced changes namely by growing from four pages to the current twenty-four daily edition. Its price has evolved as well.