Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
The Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA) ( Alsatian Latest News ) is a French and, until March 2012, German-language daily newspaper from Strasbourg . The DNA are the leading newspaper in Alsace and one of the largest newspapers in France .
The newspaper was founded in 1877 by the publisher and printer Heinrich Ludwig Kayser from Bruchmachtersen (today the district of Salzgitters ) as Strasbourg's Latest News . The zero number , which was then distributed free of charge, appeared on November 17 , the first edition on December 1, 1877. Although several daily newspapers were already published in Strasbourg at that time ( Straßburger Zeitung , Straßburger Bote and others), the latest news quickly became a great success. The paper was aimed at a wide range of readers and was the first newspaper in Alsace to introduce classifieds for businesses and private individuals.
Since the beginning of 1878, Die Neue Nachrichten has published daily the number of its subscribers inside and outside the city of Strasbourg, an important data source for media historical research, which can be used to precisely track the spread of the newspaper. As early as December 8, 1877, the latest news had 1,000 subscribers , in 1880 it was 10,000. The urban population accepted the new newspaper faster than the inhabitants of the rural surroundings. It was only after 16 months, in April 1879, that the number of subscribers outside Strasbourg exceeded that of customers within the city. The importance of the newspaper was also expressed in the subtitle: General-Anzeiger für Elsaß-Lothringen, the newspaper that was widely used in southwest Germany .
Since it was founded, the newspaper has relied on the bilingual tradition of Alsace and was one of the supporters of Franco-German reconciliation after the Second World War . The expression of this cross-border horizon was the existence of a daily German-language edition of the DNA.
The German-language edition with a blue title was discontinued in March 2012 due to insufficient demand. This reflects the general decline in the importance of the German language and the German-language media in Alsace in recent decades. Since then, a weekly German-language supplement has been published under the title Deutsche Beilage / Supplément en allemand and German-language news on the DNA website. The French edition, which appears with a red title, has a circulation of 134,000 copies (2018/2019).
The DNA covers the whole of Alsace with 26 local editions. It is published by France Est Médias and has 900 employees, including 200 professional journalists. The main owner is the press trust EBRA ( Est Bourgogne Rhône Alpes ) of the large bank Crédit Mutuel , which controls the main regional newspapers in the east and south-east of France. The editor-in-chief is Dominique Jung.
Web links
- DNA online
- DNA in German (news mainly in German with a focus on German-speaking regions)
- On the history of DNA (French) ( Memento from August 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )