La Dépêche, formally La Dépêche du Midi (), is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France, with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region. The main local editions are for Toulouse, Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn, and Tarn-et-Garonne.
History and profile
The newspaper first appeared on 2 October 1870 when it was called La Dépêche de Toulouse. Publication was prompted by workers at the Sirven print works in Toulouse, which established the paper's left-leaning political stance.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Weekly circulation of the newspaper
!Year
!Weekly circulation
|-
|2003
|200,000
|-
|2004
|–
|-
|2005
|200,090
|-
|2006
|196,641
|-
|2007
|197,751
|-
|2008
|196,749
|-
|2009
|190,875
|-
|2010
|186,213
|-
|2011
|180,969
|-
|2012
|174,511
|-
|2013
|166,137
|-
|2014
|157,215
|-
|2015
|149,998
|-
|2016
|144,419
|-
|2017
|140,097
|-
|2018
|133,074
|-
|2019
|127,466
|}