French-language magazine Domaine Public disappears
The French-speaking Swiss magazine Domaine Public will cease publication at the end of the month. The independent magazine has not managed to sufficiently renew its team of volunteer editors.
"Domaine Public is disappearing due to a natural cause," Chairman of the Board of Directors Dominique von Burg told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Thursday. He was confirming a report in the newspaper La Région.
The magazine was founded in 1963 on the initiative of André Gavillet, a social-democratic city councillor of Lausanne and later Vaud State Councillor. Domaine Public was initially a fortnightly subscription magazine before becoming a weekly magazine between 1972 and 2006. Since 2007, the magazine has been published digitally and free of charge. The left-leaning newspaper describes itself as "independent, different, reformist".
Many well-known personalities from French-speaking Switzerland have contributed to the magazine. One of the most active contributors was the former mayor of Lausanne, Yvette Jaggi (SP), who wrote almost 550 articles. The most prolific contributor, however, was retired Jura professor Jean-Daniel Delley, who wrote over 2,000 articles. (SDA)
