Facts

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Facts
Logo facts
description newsmagazine
publishing company Tamedia ( Switzerland )
First edition April 6, 1995
attitude June 28, 2007
Frequency of publication weekly (thursdays)
Sold edition 73,140 copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2006)
Widespread edition 81,557 copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2006)
Range 0.439 million readers
ISSN 1422-9986
ZDB 1305309-7

Facts (to English facts , facts, facts ) was a weekly Swiss news magazine from 1995 to 2007 published by Tamedia .

Print medium

Facts appeared from April 1995 and was initially based on the German news magazine Focus . The magazine dealt mainly with current events, supplemented by a few reports. The most important competitors on the Swiss political and business magazine market were Die Weltwoche and Die Wochenzeitung as well as the business newspapers Bilanz and Cash . In 2001, Facts was in the black for the first time.

On June 20, 2007, Tamedia's board of directors announced that it would discontinue the magazine for economic reasons. Falling advertising income and start-ups such as NZZ am Sonntag (2002) and especially free newspapers such as 20 Minuten would cause economic problems for the magazine. The high fixed costs of a news magazine would be offset by permanently inadequate advertising revenues. On June 28, 2007, Facts was published for the last time in around twelve years. Facts recently had a circulation of 73,140 sold or 81,557 copies and reached 439,000 readers in German-speaking Switzerland, which at that time had a population of around 4.8 million.

content

Permanent categories were: Cover story, Switzerland, economy, knowledge, way of life (culture & society), abroad and sport. The cabaret artist Viktor Giacobbo had the “last word” and was replaced by Art Ringger with his “dismantling” for 4½ years. The writer Linus Reichlin later wrote columns on a regular basis.

Special issues

  • 1999/14: The Mad Century: 1900–1999
  • 2001/52: The year 2001
  • 2002/52: The year 2002
  • 2003/52: The year 2003

Side dishes

In the years 1999 to 2004, supplements were found in the editions. a. popular guides from Tamedia.

  • 1999/15: The 100 most likeable restaurants: the German-Swiss restaurants with the most pleasant ambience
  • 2001/6: Connection guide: Tips & tricks for carefree use of cell phones, notebooks and PDAs
  • 2001/19: 100 of the most likeable restaurants in German-speaking Switzerland
  • 2003/10: City Guide 2003: 28 Swiss cities to rediscover. Selected tips and special offers
  • 2003/12: The last days of the dictator: why US President Bush needs a quick victory
  • 2004/10: City Guide 2004: Swiss cities

Between 2005 and 2006, the annual output was of Her money of Credit Suisse offered as a side dish.

Online medium

As a supplement to the print medium, an online edition was offered on facts.ch from August 1996 . At the beginning the online medium was called F @ CTS , after a relaunch by the Bern agency Nothing Medialab in November 2001 it was called FACTS interactive . The new website was a supplement to the magazine, the articles were prepared for the online medium.

In September 2007 Tamedia launched a news portal based on the term Web 2.0 as Facts 2.0 under the web address of the discontinued news magazine . It aggregated content from various news sources and presented it in the form of teasers . The portal was sold to Information Architects in December 2008.

Editors-in-chief

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WEMF-Auflaufbulletin 2006 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 18 (PDF; 244 kB).
  2. ↑ Facts and figures on Facts ( Memento of July 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive ). In: Facts. 2004 (PDF; 3 kB).
  3. ^ The end of FACTS - the opinions ( Memento of December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: Facts. June 28, 2007.
  4. ^ Andreas Zumach: No more «Facts». In: taz.de . June 27, 2007, accessed August 9, 2011 .
  5. ^ Viktor Giacobbo : Tears do not lie ( Memento from December 2, 1998 in the Internet Archive ). In: Facts Online . December 2, 1998.
  6. ↑ Linus Reichlin : Linus Reichlin ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Facts Online. October 11, 2007.
  7. ↑ Her money . Zurich: Credit Suisse. First date of publication: 2005–2006; so that adjusted ZDB ID 2247903-X .
  8. ↑ F @ CTS ( Memento of October 5, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) In: Facts Online. October 5, 2001.
  9. ↑ Reto Hügli: The surfer as jury ( Memento from March 4, 2002 in the Internet Archive ). Medienausbildungszentrum (MAZ), 2001 (diploma thesis: postgraduate course «online journalism»).
  10. ↑ Information Architects adopt Facts 2.0 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Tamedia AG, December 19, 2008 (media release).
  11. ^ Website of Facts 2.0 ( Memento of August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).