Express (Austrian newspaper)

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The Express was an Austrian tabloid .

It first appeared as an independent newspaper on March 26, 1958, one day after the Vienna newspaper war ended . It was founded by Fritz Molden and Gerd Bacher . In 1960 he was bought by the forward publishing house belonging to the SPÖ . As a left-liberal newspaper, it asserted itself in the 1960s as the third-largest newspaper in Austria. Differences about the content of the daily newspaper accompanied the economic decline from 1968. From 1969 the later Kronen Zeitung managing director and RTL editor-in-chief Hans Mahr worked as a reporter for the Express . In December 1970, the Express was taken over by Kurt Falk and Hans Dichand and finally merged with the Kronen Zeitung in April 1971 .

Individual evidence

↑ Theodor Venus: Broken Media Dreams. "Express", "Kronen-Zeitung" and "Arbeiter-Zeitung". In: Bruno Kreisky 1911, 1970, 1983, 1990. His time and more. Scientific publication accompanying the exhibition of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna from September 18 to November 15, 1998. Vienna 1998, p. 127.

[1] Theodor Venus: Broken Media Dreams. "Express", "Kronen-Zeitung" and "Arbeiter-Zeitung". In: Bruno Kreisky 1911, 1970, 1983, 1990. His time and more. Scientific publication accompanying the exhibition of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna from September 18 to November 15, 1998. Vienna 1998, p. 127.