Berlin courier
| Berlin courier | |
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| description | Tabloid |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Berliner Verlag ( Germany ) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | June 15, 1949 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Range | 0.21 million readers |
| ( MA 2019 II ) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Matthias Thieme |
| executive Director |
Michael Maier (Chairman) Holger Friedrich |
| Web link | berliner-kurier.de |
| ISSN (print) | 1437-3475 |
The Berliner Kurier is a tabloid from Berlin that is published by the Berliner Verlag . The Berliner Kurier is mainly used in the eastern districts of Berlin. The sold circulation reached 70,771 copies in the fourth quarter of 2019. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, no circulation was reported in the first quarter of 2020.
From 1949 to 1990 the newspaper was called BZ am Abend .
History of the newspaper
The first edition appeared on July 15, 1949 under the name BZ am Abend in Berliner Verlag GmbH . In 1953 the BZ was subordinated to the Central Committee of the SED in the evening . The Berlin publishing house continued to act as publisher. However, it was attributable to the SED press monopoly. For a long time, BZ am Abend was the only evening and street-selling newspaper in the GDR . By the end of the GDR, it had a daily circulation of around 200,000 copies.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr together with the publisher Robert Maxwell took over the Berliner Verlag and thus BZ am Abend and the Berliner Zeitung . The BZ in the evening became the Berliner Kurier , also to avoid confusion with the competitor from the west , the BZ .
After the decision of the parent company Bertelsmann to limit itself to its core competencies, Gruner + Jahr began to part with its newspaper holdings. The Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group , which had already been active on the Berlin market with Tagesspiegel , tried to take over the Berlin publishing house in June 2002 . This takeover was prohibited by the Federal Cartel Office. A complaint by the publisher before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court was rejected. Holtzbrinck then filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court of Justice . Formally, the publishing house still belonged to the Bertelsmann subsidiary Gruner + Jahr, which sold it in 2005 to BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding , which belonged to the Mecom Group . In January 2009, the Mecom Group sold the Berlin publishing house to the Cologne-based media group M. DuMont Schauberg .
On November 1, 2016, the editorial team was replaced by Berliner Newsroom GmbH, which is the service provider for the content of the Berliner Zeitung and the Berliner Kurier. From October 2018 to January 2020, the Berliner Kurier obtained its national content from the editorial network in Germany .
In September 2019, the Berlin entrepreneur couple Silke and Holger Friedrich took over the Berliner Verlag.
Edition
The Berliner Kurier is one of the German daily newspapers with the greatest loss of circulation in recent years. The circulation sold has decreased by an average of 5.3% per year over the past 10 years. In contrast, it rose by 4.9% last year.
Development of the number of copies sold
Editors-in-chief
- 1990–1996 Wieland Sandmann
- 1997–2000 Adolf Schwaner
- 2000-2003 Caroline Methner
- 2003–2015 Hans-Peter Buschheuer
- 2015–2020 Elmar Jehn
- since 2020 Matthias Thieme
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to IVW
- ↑ According to IVW
- ↑ DuMont Schauberg buys Berlin publisher faz.net, January 13, 2009
- ↑ DuMont builds new integrated newsroom in Berlin berliner-zeitung.de, October 27, 2016
- ↑ Madsack Mediengruppe and DuMont found Hauptstadtredaktion haz.de, May 23, 2018
- ↑ According to the report, “Berliner Zeitung” separates from the editorial network Germany in February . meedia.de, January 29, 2020.
- ↑ Entrepreneur couple buys “Berliner Zeitung” faz.net, September 17, 2019
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )