Le Progrès

This article is about the newspaper of France. For other uses, see Progres (disambiguation).

Le Progrès (French pronunciation: [lə pʁɔɡʁɛ], lit. 'The Progress') is a regional daily newspaper which is based in Lyon, Rhône, France.^[1]

Le Progrès

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	L'est Républicain
Founded	1859; 166 years ago (1859)
Language	French
Headquarters	Lyon
Circulation	156,113 (as of 2020)
Website	Le Progrès

Former Progrès building, now a FNAC.

Le Progrès reports primarily on local news in the Rhône-Alpes region. The paper has its headquarters in Lyon.^{[citation needed]} The print works is in Chassieu, near Lyon. The former headquarters was located in the Rue de la République, in the building that is currently occupied by Fnac. René Diaz worked there as a journalist and illustrator for 30 years.

The 1998 circulation of the paper was 262,000 copies;^[1] by 2020, it was 151,811 copies.^[2]