L'Équipe is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, L'Auto, was a general sports paper that also covered auto racing which was gaining popularity at the turn of the twentieth century.
The front page of L'Équipe on 4 July 2011
Maurice Garin (1871–1957), winner of the first Tour de France
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.
A girl reading a 21 July 1969 copy of The Washington Post reporting on the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918
Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper
Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840