''Corse-Matin'' is a French-language daily local newspaper published in

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History and profile

''Corse-Matin'' was part of

Lagardère Group Lagardère S.A. () is an international group with operations in over 40 countries. Based in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the group was founded and created in 1992 by Jean-Luc Lagardère under the name Matra, Hachette & Lagardère. Headed ...

through its subsidiary Groupe Hachette until August 2007 when it was sold to Hersant Media Group. The paper is owned by Nice-Matin Group. In December 2012 French businessman

Bernard Tapie Bernard Roger Tapie (; 26 January 1943 – 3 October 2021) was a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was Minister of City Affairs in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy. He was the manager of a group ...

bought a share in the daily. The headquarters of the paper is in Ajaccio. The sister newspapers of ''Corse-Matin'' are ''

Nice-Matin ''Nice-Matin'' (; ) is a regional daily French newspaper. The paper covers Nice and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in south-eastern France. History and profile ''Nice-Matin'' was created in 1944. The paper was jointly owned by the Grou ...

'', ''

Monaco-Matin ''Monaco-Matin'' is a Monegasque Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper established in 1997. History Originally published as a special edition of ''Nice-Matin'', ''Monaco-Matin'' was established as an independent newspaper through an agreement between ...

'' and '' Var-Matin''. In 1998 another local daily of the island, ''La Corse'', merged with ''Corse-Matin''. ''Corse-Matin'' has been subject to terrorist attacks. Its headquarters was attacked by unknown people in 1992, 1994 and 1997. In May 2011 the office of the paper in

Bastia Bastia ( , , , ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest popu ...

was also attacked. In 2020 the circulation of ''Corse-Matin'' was 25,906 copies.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Corse Matin 1944 establishments in France Daily newspapers published in France Mass media in Ajaccio Newspapers established in 1944