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Baden Latest News (BNN)
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description Baden-Württemberg daily newspaper
publishing company Badische Latest News
Baddruck GmbH, Karlsruhe
First edition March 4, 1946
Frequency of publication Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 107,966 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Klaus Michael Baur
editor Klaus Michael Baur
Web link bnn.de

Badische Latest Nachrichten (BNN) is the name of the only printed regional daily newspaper in the city and district of Karlsruhe. It also appears with local editions in the Rastatt district , the Baden-Baden district , the Ortenau district , the Pforzheim district and the Enz district . The sold circulation is 107,966 copies, a decrease of 33.4 percent since 1998. Around 90 editors work in the newspaper's main and local editorial offices.

The BNN has been published since 1946 and is owned by the Baur family. It belongs to a foundation that is named after the newspaper founder Wilhelm Baur and was founded in 1994. The foundation combined most of the shares in the newspaper from Baur's successors, Hans Wilhelm Baur and his wife Brunhilde Baur, and is intended to guarantee the newspaper's independence. The distribution amounts go to various social institutions. The heart of the foundation's work is the multigenerational house named after the publisher Brunhilde Baur, who died in 2004.

The newspaper only appears on weekdays. On Sundays, the publisher distributes the similarly styled, free newspaper Der Sonntag with a circulation of around 230,000 copies according to its own information to all households in Karlsruhe and its suburbs, as well as to subscribers to local editions in Central Baden . Since 2013, the BNN has been offering an app that includes an electronic version of the print edition as well as updates in the areas of politics, business, sport and world affairs.

history

The Badische Neuesten Nachrichten was founded after the Second World War by the dissimilar politicians Wilhelm Baur (1895–1973, CDU ) and Walter Schwerdtfeger (1901–1979, SPD ), who had already worked as journalists before the Nazi era . Because of their harmless actions during the war, they were the only ones to receive a license to publish a newspaper in Karlsruhe from the Information Control Division of the American occupation forces on March 1, 1946 , with Schwerdtfeger as editor-in-chief and Baur as head of human resources ("Business Manager"). ) was reported. The first edition of Badische Neuesten Nachrichten appeared on March 4, 1946 , despite brief competition from a left-wing “Karlsruher Rundschau” in the 1980s, it has remained the only daily newspaper in Karlsruhe in the conservative city to this day. On April 1, 1946, the publishing house was relocated from Waldstrasse to Karlsruher Lammstrasse. Here he stayed for four decades. As early as 1950, Schwerdtfeger, who left the city, left the company in exchange for a severance payment and Wilhelm Baur became the sole publisher and now also editor-in-chief of the BNN; at the same time, like his former colleague, he was a member of the Karlsruhe city council. In 1972, due to lack of space, the print shop was relocated from the city center to Neureut , which only became a district of Karlsruhe three years later. After Baur's death in 1973, his nephew Hans Wilhelm Baur (1926–2015) inherited the newspaper as a publisher, with his wife Brunhilde (1935–2004) also assuming a leading role as managing director and publisher. Together with her, in 1994 he brought the newspaper's ownership to the Wilhelm Baur Foundation. A new administration building was built in 1986 in Neureut. The editorial office and the other publishing departments have now also moved from Lammstrasse to Neureut. Baur's nephew Klaus Michael Willimek became editor-in-chief in 2000. After Brunhilde Baur's death in autumn 2004, he also became publisher and managing director and adopted the name Baur to continue it. In December 2015, the newspaper announced that after the death of Hans Wilhelm Baur in January of that year, he had also succeeded him as publisher.

In 1993, the reaction to a criticism by BNN employee Thomas Rübenacker of an open-air concert conducted by Justus Frantz in Bruchsal made headlines . While the Bruchsal local section of the BNN praised the open-air concert with Justus Frantz in the highest tones, Rübenacker spoke in the Karlsruhe BNN feature section of a “Justus Frantz hit parade”, downright a “fiasco”, “pre-chewed sounds” and Performances u. a. of "bleached, soft-washed cuddly Mozart". Spectators and local politicians such as the Mayor of Bruchsal, Bernd Doll , protested. The BNN immediately printed several letters to the editor who were enthusiastic about concerts and an apology from the publisher and the editorial team; Rübenacker was released. The Baden Latest News became known nationwide through the disclosure of the Peter Graf tax case . On July 12, 1995, the newspaper reported under the headline “Tax investigation in Steffi Graf's house” on the large-scale search operation, which had been kept secret by the authorities up to this point. The action had already taken place on May 23, just before the French Open .

After an editor of the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten in 2005 was one of the first in Germany to report critically about the working conditions at Lidl , the newspaper publisher terminated the employment relationship with its employee. This step was initially justified with the tendency protection . In fact, Lidl had called in the publisher's management team and put pressure on the large ads that were placed twice a week. Instead, the editor-in-chief insisted on going to the Lidl headquarters in Neckarsulm “of their own free will” . According to research by Südwestrundfunk, Lidl is one of the newspaper's largest customers. Until then, advertisements to the value of 1.4 million euros were booked per year. The editor of the daily newspaper referred to the “Black Book Lidl” under the heading “Manual work at up to 24 degrees below zero”. Lidl's success is mainly based on “the poor working conditions”. After public pressure, the termination was later reversed. The publisher thus also anticipated a public reprimand by the press council for violating the press code.

newspaper

At the BNN parent company in Karlsruhe, the editorial team uses the services of the news agencies Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), Sport-Informations-Dienst (sid) and Agence France-Presse (AFP). Together with other German daily newspapers, the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten has a network of correspondents in Europe and around the world. Two correspondents report from the federal capital Berlin, while the newspaper maintains a correspondent's office in the state capital Stuttgart. The newspaper appears on Mondays with two sports packages for global and local sports. On Thursdays, special pages give event tips for the coming weekend. The BNN supplements "Fächer" and "Reise-Fächer" are delivered on Saturdays.

In the Enzkreis , the BNN competes with the Pforzheimer Zeitung (leading in Pforzheim), with the Badischer Tagblatt in Baden-Baden and in the Rastatt district , with the Rheinpfalz in the southern district of Germersheim , with the Offenburger Tageblatt in Ortenau and also with the pure Online daily newspaper ka-news . In the city of Karlsruhe and the surrounding area, the BNN has had a de facto monopoly on the print market of local daily newspapers for decades, which has earned it the ironic nickname “monopoly newspaper” and in the region has occasionally led to the success of popular internet blogs that the newspaper has for it Criticize conservative profile and close proximity to the CDU . The newspaper does not have a relevant internet offering.

Edition

The Badische Neueste Nachrichten as most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The circulation sold has fallen by an average of 2% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3.2%. It is currently 107,966 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 94 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

technology

On March 11, 2012, the more manageable Rhenish format (350 mm × 510 mm) was introduced. The changeover to the new KBA printing line was carried out within 40 hours. The BNN are printed in four colors on a Commander CT from the Würzburg machine manufacturer König und Bauer (KBA). The 30-meter-long and 670-tonne facility was commissioned in March 2012. The Ferag shipping system, which was put into service in 2013, is one of the most modern in Germany.

expenditure

The daily newspaper has nine local editions. The coat of these editions is identical. Local editorial offices create an independent local section on site. The local editions appear in the following cities and regions:

Editors-in-chief

Publishing activities

Since 1993, the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten has been organizing the “We help” fundraising campaign around Christmas time. Since 2013, the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten has published two of its own books based on popular series. "50 BNN hiking tips" offer tour suggestions on the Upper Rhine, the Black Forest, the Palatinate, through the Kraichgau and Alsace. “Unforgotten in the wildlife park” comprises 50 portraits of football players from Karlsruher SC. In October 2014 the 60-page magazine “Baden 1914–1918” was published, in which the First World War is described in 50 articles from a strictly Baden perspective. The magazine was created in cooperation with the General State Archives Karlsruhe and the City Archives Karlsruhe .

Personalities

Well-known personalities who have worked at the BNN:

  • Frank Elstner , radio and television show maker, volunteered at the BNN.
  • Otto Gillen , art historian, journalist, essayist and poet, was the BNN's column editor for 25 years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  2. ↑ Advertisement price list for Der Sonntag ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB), p. 2  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bnn.de
  3. ↑ a b Wilhelm Baur - City Lexicon. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm Baur - City Lexicon. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Documents & State Papers, p. 650. In: United States Department of State . Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Do not be afraid in context: weekly newspaper , December 9, 2015, accessed March 23, 2020
  7. ↑ New BNN publisher . In: Badische Latest Nachrichten (BNN), December 5, 2015, p. 1.
  8. ↑ a b Hanno Kühnen: A newspaper cuddles up to the authorities and rejects its music critic because of a punk: deep bow . zeit.de. October 15, 1993. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  9. ↑ a b c Battle for the Province in ZEITMagazin , April 14, 2011, accessed December 23, 2020
  10. ↑ BNN, July 12, 1995
  11. ^ Visible from both sides taz.de, November 11, 2005.
  12. ↑ The press code also applies to publishers , heise online, October 10, 2005.
  13. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  14. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  15. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  16. ↑ Press portal: BNN appears for the first time in the Rhenish format
    BNN relies on the innovative compact press ; KBA Commander CT ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )     Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kba.com
  17. ^ Edwin Kraus - Stadtwiki Karlsruhe. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  18. ↑ ISBN 978-3-00-043355-9 and ISBN 978-3- 00-045352-6

Web links

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