Northwestern Switzerland (newspaper association)

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Logo of the Solothurner Zeitung , one of the head pages of Northwestern Switzerland

The Northwestern Switzerland is a newspaper jacket for the Aargauer Zeitung , which Limmattaler newspaper that Solothurn newspaper that Grenchner Tagblatt and the Basellandschaftliche newspaper and for the partner title Oltner Tagblatt and Zofinger Tagblatt . It was founded in 2002 as Mittelland-Zeitung and renamed several times: in September 2010 in az Complete Edition , in September 2012 in Northwestern Switzerland, in June 2014 in az Northwestern Switzerland and in July 2019 finally in Northwestern Switzerland . On Saturdays, Northwestern Switzerland has been publishing the weekend edition Switzerland on the weekend since March 4, 2017 as a replacement for the previously discontinued Switzerland on Sunday .

Since October 1, 2018, Northwestern Switzerland has been published by CH Media , a joint venture between the NZZ media group and AZ Medien .

Members and circulation

The newspaper cover Northwestern Switzerland is produced in Aarau . The shell section presents supra-regional information such as international, domestic, business, culture and sport. The newspapers as well as their regional editions and headers continue to produce their regional sections independently and independently of one another. Until the sale in 2012 by AZ Medien to Berner Espace Media ( Tamedia company ), Langenthaler Tagblatt was also a member of Northwestern Switzerland .

The newspapers that use Northwestern Switzerland as a coat all appear in the same layout, which was designed by the eastern Swiss newspaper designer Katja Hösli.

The editor-in-chief of Mantels has been Patrik Müller since January 1, 2017 , previously editor-in-chief of Schweiz am Sonntag, which was discontinued in 2017 .

The conditions of all members, regional issues and the head leaves added together, which is part of Northwestern Switzerland with a WEMF - certified total circulation in 2019 of 125'655 (2018: 132'947) sold or 139'483 (2018: 147'639) distributed copies and a Reach of 392,000 (previous year: 387,000) readers with the Tages-Anzeiger and a view of the three largest daily newspapers in Switzerland.

Like all printed daily newspapers, Northwestern Switzerland has suffered a sharp drop in circulation for several years. The circulation sold fell from 202,670 by 77,015 to 125,655 copies from 2008 to 2019, a decrease of 38%.

Development of the circulation sold according to WEMF circulation bulletins (see details 2008 and 2018)

Switzerland at the weekend

Logo of the weekend edition Switzerland on the weekend

From September 2007 to February 2017, the Sunday newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag (until 2013 Sunday ) was published as the seventh edition of Northwestern Switzerland . Since March 4, 2017, Northwestern Switzerland has been publishing an expanded weekend edition on Saturdays under the name Switzerland on the weekend in its place .

precursor

From 1994 to 1996 the Aargauer Tagblatt already produced a coat under the name Mittelland-Zeitung for Aargauer Tagblatt , Oltner Tagblatt and Zofinger Tagblatt . With the merger of Aargauer Tagblatt and Badener Tagblatt in 1996, this collaboration ceased, and from 1997 the Solothurner Zeitung instead produced a cover for Solothurner Zeitung , Oltner Tagblatt and Zofinger Tagblatt under the name Neue Mittelland-Zeitung . These papers were then 2,002 today Northwestern Switzerland called Midland newspaper at.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. New media company has started. In: persoenlich.com . 1st October 2018.
  2. Our brands. CH Media .
  3. New layout for «az Nordwestschweiz». In: persoenlich.com . 20th June 2014.
  4. Patrik Müller takes over editor-in-chief. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 13, 2016.
  5. a b WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 19 (PDF; 796 kB).
  6. WEMF Total Audience 2018-2 ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , P. 6 (PDF; 609 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wemf.ch
  7. WEMF-Auflaufbulletin 2008 ( Memento of May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), p. 11, Mittelland-Zeitung .
  8. After ten years: Schweiz am Sonntag was published for the last time. In: advertising week . February 26, 2017.