Libération (Morocco)

Libération
Type	Daily newspaper
Founder(s)	Socialist Union of Popular Forces
Founded	1964; 61 years ago
Language	French
Headquarters	Casablanca
Sister newspapers	Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki
Website	http://www.libe.ma/

Libération is a daily francophone Moroccan newspaper.

History and profile

Libération was established in 1964.^[1] The paper is the media outlet of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party.^[2] It is based in Casablanca^[3] and is the sister publication of the Arabic language newspaper Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki.^[4]^[5]

The circulation of the paper plummeted from 60,000 copies in 2001^[1] to 5,000 copies in 2003.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Morocco Press Press Reference. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
^ Gilles Kraemer, La presse francophone en Méditerranée: Regain et perspectives, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2001, p. 24
^ "Media landscape. Morocco". Menasset. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
^ Valérie K. Orlando (2009). Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-230-62259-3.
^ Moha Ennaji (2005). Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Education in Morocco. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-387-23979-8.
^ William A. Rugh (2004). Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-275-98212-6.