Hamburger Morgenpost
| Hamburger Morgenpost
Hamburger Morgenpost on Sunday |
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| description | Hamburg tabloid |
| publishing company | Morgenpost Verlag GmbH |
| First edition | September 16, 1949 |
| founder | Heinrich Braune |
| Frequency of publication | Monday to Sunday |
| Sold edition | 40,266 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat / Sun) | |
| Range | 0.27 million readers |
| ( MA 2017 II ) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Maik Koltermann |
| executive Director | Arist of Harpe |
| Web link | mopo.de |
| ZDB | 291023-8 |
The Hamburger Morgenpost ( Mopo ) is a Hamburg tabloid that has been published since 1949 and has belonged to the entrepreneur Arist von Harpe since 2020. The sold circulation is 40,266 copies, a decrease of 71.2 percent since 1998.
history
The Hamburger Morgenpost was founded in 1949 as a tabloid daily newspaper with a circulation of 6,000 copies by the Hamburg journalist and SPD man Heinrich Braune, initially against opposition from within the SPD's own ranks . It first appeared on September 16, 1949 and was published by the SPD's own publishing house, Auerdruck. The Hamburger Echo was published in this until the end of 1966, and the decision to discontinue it was enforced by the then SPD treasurer Alfred Nau in his capacity as chairman of the supervisory board of the publishing house from the less successful managing director Hellmut Kalbitzer . By the end of the 1950s, the Mopo circulation rose to 450,000 copies. After the Bild newspaper from the Axel Springer Verlag appeared on the Hamburg newspaper market as the second tabloid, the circulation of the Hamburger Morgenpost also fell steadily. In 1972 it had dropped to 351,000. Due to the existing competition with other daily newspapers , such as the Hamburger Abendblatt founded in 1948, interest in party-affiliated newspapers in Hamburg had also decreased.
In 1980 the SPD sold the newspaper to the Swiss businessman Eduard Greif, who in 1986 sold it to Gruner + Jahr . In 1986 the Morgenpost was one of the founders of the radio station Radio Hamburg and has since held five percent of the shares in the radio station. In 1986/87 a local edition appeared in Bremen with the Bremer Morgenpost , which was discontinued after a few months. In 1989 the circulation had fallen to 135,000. In 1999 Gruner + Jahr sold the Morgenpost to Frank Otto and Hans Barlach .
In 2000, the chief reporters of the Hamburger Morgenpost, Olaf Wunder and Volker Schimkus, were among the winners of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's German Local Journalist Prize . You received the special award for the investigative Mister X series .
In 2004, Hans Barlach acquired all of Frank Otto's shares before all of the shares were taken over by BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding in January 2006 . BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding was sold in January 2009 by the British Mecom Group to the Cologne-based media group M. DuMont Schauberg .
On January 11, 2015, an Islamist arson attack was carried out on the Morgenpost archive . The Morgenpost reprinted caricatures of Mohammed after the attack on Charlie Hebdo . In July 2017, three men were sentenced to suspended sentences of up to two years and to perform work. Another man was sentenced to work only.
The Discovery Dock adventure world was opened in May 2019.
On February 6, 2020, the DuMont media group announced the sale of the Hamburger Morgenpost to the entrepreneur Arist von Harpe. The collaboration that began in October 2018 with the editorial network Germany , which supplied the Hamburger Morgenpost with national content, was then ended.
Edition
Since the introduction of the Sunday edition in 2006, the circulation is shown for the period from Monday to Sunday. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 8.3% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 13.5%. It is currently 40,266 copies. This puts the Hamburger Morgenpost behind the local competition from Hamburger Abendblatt (151.220) and Bild Hamburg (134.451). The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 8.06 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
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Development of the number of copies sold |
Location
The Hamburger Morgenpost was located in the press house from 1949 to 1980 , the merchant's house from 1980 to 1985 and the old star wool factory in Bahrenfeld from 1985 to 2018 . She has been based in the OttensenOpen in Ottensen since 2018 .
format
Originally the Mopo appeared in the Berlin format (315 × 470 mm), since a relaunch in 1986 it has appeared on workdays in tabloid format (235 × 315 mm) or stretched (235 × 350 mm) on Sundays. The change led to an increase in circulation for a short time due to the advertising of the “subway format”. Until June 2019, the following day's edition was sold as a night edition from 8 p.m. Since November 5, 2006, Mopo has also been published with a Sunday edition. On June 25, 2020 it was announced that the Sunday edition will be discontinued in August 2020 and the number of pages for the Saturday edition will be increased from 40 to 72 pages.
Editors-in-chief
- 1985–1986: Nils von der Heyde
- 1986: Jürgen Juckel
- 1986–1989: Wolfgang Clement
- 1989–1992: Ernst Fischer
- 1992–1994: Wolf Heckmann
- 1994–1996: Manfred von Thien
- 1996–1998: Mathias Döpfner
- 1998–2000: Marion Horn
- 2000–2006: Josef Depenbrock
- 2006–2008: Matthias Onken
- 2008–2020: Frank Niggemeier
- since 2020: Maik Koltermann
Press advice
In 2008, the German Press Council reprimanded the newspaper for violating the press code . The Morgenpost had seriously violated journalistic due diligence by presenting as fact unsubstantiated claims in connection with the closure of a shop in which clothing had been sold to customers from the right-wing extremist scene (file number BK2-254 / 08).
The newspaper Rügen received it in 2005 (file number BK1-78 / 05), 2006 (file number BK2-98 / 06) and 2007 (file number BK1-102 / 07).
In September 2012, the German Press Council certified another violation of the Morgenpost . The editorial team had reported on poisoned birds of prey and "considered" radical hunters as perpetrators without having any evidence. However, this time the press council did not issue a reprimand.
literature
- Katharina Claudia Wimmer: The Beginnings of the Hamburger Morgenpost (1949–1960). A contribution to the social democratic press policy of the post-war period . Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 3-8300-6717-8 . ( Writings on historical research of the 20th century , Volume 7)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat / Sun ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ^ Fate in Hamburg . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1986 ( online ).
- ^ The motto of the radios, Abendblatt.de, August 22, 2006
- ↑ Stop for the flop . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1987 ( online ).
- ↑ Montgomery buys “Hamburger Morgenpost” faz.net, January 27, 2006
- ↑ DuMont Schauberg buys Berlin publisher faz.net, January 13, 2009
- ^ Arson attack on "Hamburger Morgenpost" zeit.de, January 11, 2015
- ↑ "Mopo" -Brandstifter sentenced to hours of work spiegel.de, July 20, 2017
- ↑ DuMont is building a micro-amusement park wuv.de, February 6, 2019
- ↑ DuMont sells "Hamburger Morgenpost" to entrepreneur zeit.de, February 6, 2020
- ↑ Madsack Mediengruppe and DuMont found Hauptstadtredaktion haz.de, May 23, 2018
- ↑ What it's like to buy a newspaper - and then comes Corona horizont.net, April 17, 2020
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat / Sun ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Next door to Zeit, Stern and Spiegel mopo.de, July 17, 2018
- ↑ Digital First at Hamburger Morgenpost: Tabloid publishes a printed night edition meedia.de, April 11, 2019
- ↑ Green makes Pickel zeit.de, November 17, 2006
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost discontinues the Sunday edition - and gets thicker on Saturdays horizont.net, June 25, 2020
- ↑ presserat.info
- ^ Overview of the Rügen: Press Council. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2019 ; accessed on February 21, 2019 . 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.
