Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Swiss
Owner(s) NZZ Mediengruppe
Founder(s) Salomon Gessner
President Felix Graf
Editor-in-chief Eric Gujer
Founded 12 January 1780; 244 years ago (1780-01-12)
Political alignment Classical liberalism
Conservatism
Liberal democracy (per the paper's official founding guidelines and statute)
Language German
Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland
Circulation 108,709
(including e-paper, 2014)
Readership 0.253 Mio.
ISSN 0376-6829
OCLC number 698049952
Website nzz.ch (in German)
Head office in Zürich, as seen from Sechseläutenplatz

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich.[1] The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the Swiss-German newspaper of record, and for detailed reports on international affairs.[2]

History and profile

Zürcher Zeitung, no. 1 (1780)
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Research notice published for Anna Göldin accused of witchcraft in the Zürcher Zeitung on 25 January 1782
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Registered share of the AG for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, issued on 16 March 1906

One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung,[3] edited by the Swiss painter and poet Salomon Gessner, on 12 January 1780.[4][5] It was renamed Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1821.

According to Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, many prestige German language newspapers followed its example because it set "standards through an objective, in-depth treatment of subject matter, eloquent commentary, an extensive section on entertainment, and one on advertising."[6]

Aside from the switch from its blackletter typeface in 1946, the newspaper has changed little since the 1930s. Only in 2005 did it add color pictures, much later than most mainstream papers. The emphasis is on international news, business, finance, and high culture. Features and lifestyle stories are kept to a minimum.

Historically, the newspaper has been politically positioned close to the liberal Free Democratic Party of Switzerland since its early period.[5] The paper's official statutes and guidelines declare it to have a "liberal democratic foundation".[7] Accordingly, it has traditionally adopted a free-market liberal[4] and centre-right orientation.[8] However, in 2014, Markus Somm (formerly an editor at the Basler Zeitung), a more pronounced right-wing journalist, was slated to became editor-in-chief, leading to fears of a rightward shift by staff and resulting in internal protest. The internal upheaval eventually lead to Somm not taking on his role. [9] However, the appointment of Eric Gujer as editor-in-chief in 2015 and René Scheu as head of the feature section in 2016, as well as almost half of all contributing editors leaving the newspaper between 2015 and December 2017, marked a noticeable shift to the right, according to critics.[10] [11]

Circulation

The circulation of Neue Zürcher Zeitung was 18,100 copies in 1910.[5] It rose to 47,500 copies in 1930 and 66,600 copies in 1950.[5]

In 1997, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a circulation of 162,330 copies.[12] Its circulation was 169,000 copies in 2000.[13] The circulation of the paper was 166,000 copies in 2003.[14] The 2006 circulation of the paper was 146,729 copies.[15] Its circulation was 139,732 copies in 2009.[16] In 2010, the paper had a circulation of 136,894 copies.[1]

Weekend edition

In 2002, the newspaper launched a weekend edition, NZZ am Sonntag (NZZ on Sunday).[4] The weekend edition has its own editorial staff and contains more soft news and lifestyle issues than its weekday counterpart, as do most Swiss weekend newspapers. Its circulation was 121,204 copies in 2006.[15]

NZZ am Sonntag was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of weekly newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.[17]

Archives

In 2005, the complete run of the newspaper's first 225 years was scanned from microfilm. A total of two million images comprising seventy terabytes, and its Blackletter type was scanned – using optical character recognition – at a total cost of €600,000 (or €0.30 per image). The result is a searchable digital archive, accessible online by subscribers and publicly on site in Zurich.

The digitization was carried out by an institute of the German research organization Fraunhofer Society – the Institute for Media Communication (since 2006, the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (de)), headquartered in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia.[18]

Editors-in-chief

NZZ Libro

NZZ Libro is the book publishing part of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Books have been published since 1927; since 1980, the publishing house has been run as a separate profit centre. Since 2006 the publishing house has operated under the name NZZ Libro. The publishing programme of specialist and non-fiction literature includes, among other things, political, cultural, historical, and economic books, as well as biographies and illustrated books, predominantly with a Swiss reference.[19]

Award

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung was a co-recipient of the 1979 Erasmus Prize, alongside German newspaper Die Zeit.[20]

See also

Notes and references

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Further reading

  • Luchsinger, Fred. Neue Zürcher Zeitung im Zeitalter des zweiten Weltkrieges, 1930–1955 (Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1955)
  • Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 211–219
  • NZZ (Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2013)
  • Wiskemann, Elizabeth. A great swiss newspaper: the story of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Oxford University Press, 1959)
  • Friedemann Bartu: Umbruch. Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Ein kritisches Porträt. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-280-05716-2.

External links

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  • Archives of Neue Zürcher Zeitung via e-newspaperarchives.ch.


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  6. ↑ Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, eds. (1998). Modern Germany: And Encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871–1990 2:786.
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  18. ↑ Klaus Jacob. (February 2005). "70 Terabyte Zeitgeschichte" Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Fraunhofer Magazin. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
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  20. ↑ "Erasmus Prize". The Age (via Google News). 21 September 1979. Retrieved 23 August 2012. "The 1979 Erasmus Prize for outstanding contribution to European culture was presented jointly yesterday to the Swiss daily newspaper 'Neue Zuercher Zeitung' and the West German weekly 'Die Ziet'."
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