On October 17th, 1961, a peaceful demonstration, to protest against the curfew and the mistreatments suffered by Algerians from the police in France, was organized in Paris by the French Federation of the National Liberation Front (FLN); but was violently repressed. From then on, the massacre was subject to powerful denial on the part of political leaders and skillful concealment from the media. However, memory was not entirely lost thanks to periodical publications situated on the left and the extreme left side of the political spectrum. Publications of political organizations or associations working for human rights and anti-racism, currents of thought formerly invested in the struggle for the Algerian independence constitute the object of our study. Our chronological delimitation covers the accession to power of François Mitterrand (May 1981) to the creation of the association “October 17th, 1961: against oblivion” (October 2001). The review of the periodicals led to the referencing all the articles published about October 17th, 1961, which also helped to uncover the journalistic genres that dealt with the event. From these two processus, our thesis is based on a discursive analysis of our corpus of texts, highlighting relevant themes as well as lexical and argumentative strategies, put in perspective with the editorial line of periodicals. Finally, a work on the enunciator revealed unknown figures of journalism and placed itself in a prosopographic perspective, participating in the history of journalism as well as periodicals. This transdisciplinary research is a contribution to the history of the 17th of October 1961 through its reception between 1981 and 2001 in this particular press, oscillating between memorial process and partisan reappropriation.