metro (newspaper)
metro is the title of a free newspaper from Luxembourg's Metro International SA The newspaper was originally a subsidiary of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG). Today Metro International, like MTG, is controlled by the investment company Kinnevik of the Swedish Stenbeck family.
The first metro edition was distributed in the Stockholm Tunnelbana in 1995 . Currently (2014) more than 120 issues are published in more than 150 cities in 23 countries in Europe, North and South America and Asia. According to the metro website, there are 18.3 million daily and 35 million weekly readers. The newspaper appears Monday through Friday; Stockholm has a Friday special with weekend tips, and Santiago de Chile also has Saturday editions . On the front page of the Swedish edition it is noted that metro is the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Sweden. In 2007, the Dutch edition was the highest-circulation of the four nationwide free newspapers and the second highest-circulation daily newspaper in the country.
The newspaper appears in tabloid format . In some countries it is also called Metroxpress ( Denmark ), Metrorama ( Greece ), HS Metro ( Finland ) or Publimetro ( Chile ). In Poland (2000–2007) and Switzerland (2000–2002) there was an edition under the name Metropol .
The discontinuation of the print edition was announced in August 2019 . The website , however, should continue to operate.
metro / Metro News (Canada)
The Canadian editions of Metro first appeared in 2000 and were originally published by a joint venture of Canadian companies in accordance with state media laws. Metro's launch in Toronto sparked a newspaper war as the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun both battled to distribute their own free version in the urban catchment area. The Toronto edition of the Metro merged in 2001 with the competing paper GTA Today , which was published by the publisher Torstar Corporation . Metro International reduced its stake from 50 percent to ten percent in most of the English-language newspapers and sold them to the Torstar Corporation, but the headline and layout were retained.
In Canada, metro, which is sometimes called Metro News in its own name, appeared in a total of eight cities in November 2016: Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. The product is published by the Free Daily News Group Inc. , which is based in Toronto. According to their own statements, metro is the most read national daily newspaper brand and the first national daily newspaper to be published in both official languages (English and French).
Metropol (Switzerland)
In German-speaking Switzerland , the newspaper appeared from January 31, 2000 to February 13, 2002 under the title Metropol . It was published by Metro International's subsidiary , Metro Publication (Schweiz) AG. Metropol started at about the same time as the competing newspaper 20 Minuten and the Zürich Express , which emerged from the Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich , but was pushed out of the market in 2002.
As a commuter newspaper, Metropol presented news in short form. The weekly columns by Christoph Mörgeli and the gastro tips by Sabine Bölsterli were special . Metropol and 20 Minuten were similar and often copied each other. They differed mainly in that Metropol relied on letters to the editor and columns , while 20 Minuten soon added such categories, but maintained a successful web portal . In addition, Metropol mainly addressed a somewhat older and more educated audience. Metropol was sold in newspaper boxes in the core cities and agglomerations according to the self-service principle .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Circulation values from the Oplage Instituut (Dutch).
- ↑ Metro discontinues free Polish newspaper. In: w & v (Advertise & Sell). January 9, 2007.
- ↑ Ingrid Meissl Årebo: «Metro», the mother of all free papers, has come to an end. In: nzz.ch . September 4, 2019, accessed September 29, 2019 .
- ^ GTA Today, Metro will merge next week. In: Ottawa Business Journal. July 4, 2001, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ^ Metro International Annual Report 2011. (PDF) pp. 6 + 35 , archived from the original on April 14, 2012 ; accessed on November 1, 2016 .
- ^ A b About Metro News. Free Daily News Group Inc, accessed November 1, 2016 (2001-2016).
- ↑ Free Daily News Group Inc. (No longer available online.) Graphiq Inc., 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 1, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Martina Leonarz: Commuter newspapers: compact information on the way to work. In: Medienheft. Dossier 17, January 25, 2002.
