Austria (newspaper)
| Austria Newspaper | |
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| description | Austrian daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Media group "Austria" GmbH |
| First edition | September 1, 2006 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 49,226 (Mon-Fri), 426,045 (Sun) copies |
| ( ÖAK , 1st half of 2014) | |
| Widespread edition | 518,848 (Mon-Fri), 447,414 (Sun) copies |
| (ÖAK, 1st half of 2014) | |
| Range | 0.706 million, 0.688 (So) million readers |
| ( MA 13/14) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Werner Schima |
| editor | Wolfgang Fellner , Werner Schima |
| Web link | www.oe24.at |
| ZDB | 2272583-0 |
Austria is the name of a national daily newspaper in Austria . The editors are the journalists Wolfgang Fellner and Werner Schima . The first issue appeared on September 1, 2006.
newspaper
Since June 2006, the publishing cooperative members of the Austria Press Agency . With an ownership share of 8.10%, Austria is the third largest APA print owner behind the Kurier and the Kleine Zeitung .
The newspaper costs € 2.90 in the tobacco shop . On Sunday, Austria is spread through newspaper stands , as is common in Austria, and costs 90 cents. In addition, Austria offers thinner free copies at busy locations such as train stations and subway stations.
The target group are 20 to 49 year old readers. Wolfgang Fellner said in an interview in the television program Der Report in July 2006 that he wanted to address the target group of the radio station Ö3 with his newspaper .
In July 2013, Fellner announced that the newspaper's internet offering would be chargeable in the near future and expressed his belief that readers would be willing to pay for the media's content.
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Newspaper war in Vienna
As derStandard.at reports, “Austria” can no longer call itself number one in Vienna. “Today” obtained an injunction against its competitor. In recent weeks (November 2018), “Austria” advertised in its editions with reference to the figures from the Austrian Edition Control (ÖAK) with the slogan “Austria is the new number 1 in Vienna”. The widespread circulation figures of the ÖAK do not yet provide any information on how many people actually read the newspaper.
Circulation and range
The initial circulation was given as 250,000 pieces, on weekends, according to their own information, with 600,000 pieces. According to the Austrian Edition Control (ÖAK)
, the print run in the first half of 2014 was 566,823 copies Monday to Friday (2009: 323,892 copies Monday to Saturday). The sold circulation was around 49,000 copies (2009: 147,000), 464,000 copies were distributed free of charge. On Sundays, almost 579,000 copies (2009: 512,000) were printed and 426,000 (2009: 390,000) were sold.
According to the Working Group for Media Analyzes MA 13/14 - Daily Newspapers Total , Austria had 706,000 readers per issue throughout the country. This corresponds to a coverage of 9.8% for the whole of Austria. On Sunday the number of readers was 688,000 or 9.5%.
According to Austrian web analysis (ÖWA) from December 2014, the online umbrella service oe24.at reached 4.0 million unique clients , 12.3 million visits and over 80.8 million page views .
Structure of the newspaper
The USA Today newspaper serves as a model . Austrian media journalists describe the paper as a mixture of Daily Mirror , Kronen-Zeitung and Bild .
Originally the newspaper consisted of several separately stapled parts: The main part contained the topics of the day, politics, chronicle, economy and an extensive sports section. The second part dealt with regional issues, culture and opinion texts. With the exception of Vorarlberg, there was recently a separate issue for this purpose, each with up to 16 pages. Then there was the third part called Life and Style , which deals with "women’s issues" as well as people and culture and was printed on glossy paper. Fellner's wife Ursula ran this part of the newspaper.
Since June 29, 2009 the daily newspaper Austria has been published in a new design. A major innovation was the daily business section Money.at , which is under the editorial management of Fellner's son Nikolaus. The glossy magazine Life and Style still appeared as a supplement. The regional section, however, was integrated into the jacket newspaper and expanded with cultural reporting.
Since the Olympic Games in Vancouver in February 2010, all newspaper sections have been integrated into the main section. The current structure looks like this:
The newspaper usually has 44 to 56 pages. The topics of the day are presented on the first six to ten pages. Here you can also find the leading article Das says Österreich by Wolfgang Fellner or a department head. This is followed by double pages, each dealing with the topics of domestic politics, the Austrian chronicle and world news. At the beginning of a section there are short reports and opinion texts. Isabelle Daniel, who used to work for News magazine , creates a daily Politics Insider Box. On another three to six pages, local topics of the respective regional edition are dealt with. The weather report and horoscope can also be found here. This is followed by the business section Money.at with the stock exchange news. The television program is accommodated in the newspaper's middle surcharge. The second half of the newspaper deals with fashion, society, culture and special topics such as health, cars and literature. At the end of the newspaper, sport is finally housed.
There are also weekly supplements. TV-Austria is a television magazine that is enclosed every Friday. The 100-page women's magazine MADONNA will be in the newspaper on Saturday . The cover of the Sunday newspaper is a 32-page insert with the topics of the week. Finally, supplements on the subjects of the environment, real estate and multimedia appear at irregular intervals.
Since April 28, 2014, a 32-page supplement called “Sport am Montag” has appeared on Mondays, replacing the usual sports section of the newspaper on Monday.
From November 28, 2014, a 16- to 32-page supplement called “Sport Weekend” will appear on Fridays and Saturdays. This supplement gives an outlook on the sporting events on the weekend and replaces the usual sports section of the newspaper.
It is noticeable that especially the first pages of the newspaper with the daily topics are designed more and more image-heavy. Many elements of the newspaper that were initially touted have been removed. The column The day in 2 minutes on page 2 has not existed for a long time. On the back, on which the sports front page was initially, only advertising can now be seen. Furthermore, the cinema program and the daily radio program of Ö3 with all song titles was deleted.
Austria is printed in tabloid portrait format by Goldmann Druck AG in Tulln and in the printing shop of the Passau publishing group . The copies printed in Passau are up to two centimeters larger (height and width) than those printed by Goldmann AG, in which the font is also smaller.
editorial staff
The editors are Wolfgang Fellner and Werner Schima. Fellner's long-time confidante Gert Edlinger started the project for Fellner. He was recruited back for the daily newspaper by Styria Medien AG . From 2007 to 2012 Christian Nusser was editor-in-chief, after which he switched to the competitor newspaper Heute . After serious differences, Edlinger and Fellner separated in the winter of 2008. In 2011, Norman Schenz switched from “Austria” to “Kronen Zeitung”.
The editorial rooms for the national and Vienna editions are located in the “Akademiehof” in Vienna , near the Secession at Karlsplatz .
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The newspaper's editor-in-chief is co-publisher Werner Schima. The editor-in-chief and managing director of OE24.at is Niki Fellner, the son of Ursula and Wolfgang Fellner.
Name dispute over Austria
In October 2006, Hans Böck, the former managing director of the television magazine Tele , submitted an application to the Austrian Patent Office to delete the trademark “Austria” for the daily newspaper, since in his opinion the name Austria represented a sovereign feature of the state. As a general term, this should therefore not be available to any private branding. The lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that the name of the newspaper had only been applied for and protected as a word and image mark .
TV channel
On August 16, 2016, the daily newspaper “Österreich” announced that it would start the 24-hour news channel oe24.TV on September 26, 2016 in cooperation with CNN . The television station's logo is based on the logo of the newspaper's online portal. The editor-in-chief of oe24.TV is Juliane Nitschke - she succeeded the founding editor-in-chief Wolfgang Fürweger . After the start of broadcasting, oe24.TV was warned by the Teletest consortium because oe24.TV was advertised with incorrect audience figures, reach and market shares. Contrary to what was originally announced, oe24.TV only partially broadcasts live, most of the day recorded live broadcasts are broadcast in a loop. At the end of November 2016, “Austria” publisher Wolfgang Fellner and oe24.TV managing director Niki Fellner spoke of a “sensational success” of the station in an interview. On January 27, 2017, the boss on duty , János Aladár Fehérváry , was dismissed by the oe24.TV managing director Fellner immediately after Fehérváry's announcement of the establishment of a works council and released from duty, Fellner junior justified the termination and release from duty with "economic reasons".
budget
The newspaper is financed through loans of 50 million euros from a consortium of eight Austrian banks. The largest lender is Bank Austria . Funds also come from Raiffeisen Zentralbank , the 3-Banken-Gruppe ( Oberbank , BKS, BTV), Investkredit and Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien. The rumored term of the loans is 13 years.
According to the Austria Press Agency, the new company has a financing volume of 70 million euros. This volume is intended to cover the running costs of the newspaper for 13 years. In fact, however, the project aims to 7 years after 5 breakeven reached.
criticism
Right from the start of the daily newspaper, there was strong criticism of the paper's content. In particular, the quality of the content was repeatedly highlighted in poster advertising campaigns. When a simple tabloid with low quality standards appeared, skeptics felt confirmed. “Austria, that is a kind of printed ORF program reform 2007” , was commented on, among other things, with reference to the failed ORF program reform.
The newspaper is repeatedly criticized. Austria caused a stir when a reporter from the daily newspaper called the bank branch during a hostage-taking on February 27, 2007 and tried, stammering, to conduct an interview with the perpetrator. Critics accuse the newspaper of having no sensitivity for sensitive reporting, whereupon Wolfgang Fellner blamed the police for the interview because they did not cut the telephone line to the bank branch. The reporter's approach was compared to the behavior of journalists in the Gladbeck hostage drama. In 2008, the Supreme Court found that the term "hyena journalism" in connection with reporting on the hostage-taking was a permissible expression of opinion.
Furthermore, the last will of the singer Georg Danzer († June 21, 2007) was not fulfilled. He had wished that the news of his death would not be published until after his cremation. The internet presence of Austria brought the first reports shortly after the death report went to the media.
The newspaper contains many printing and spelling errors, often even in the headlines such as “Jutiz opens Horngacher accounts”. Criticism is also made of errors in the content. A report on crime in Vienna said the clearance rate was around 26%. Final comment: “Thus every fourth crime remains unpunished.”, Although with regard to the 26% it should actually mean that only every fourth crime is solved. The year 1911 was incorrectly mentioned in a column as the founding date of SK Rapid Wien . In fact, Rapid Vienna was founded in 1899.
In addition to factual errors, the journalistic qualities of the paper are also criticized: readers are lured by sensational titles, photo montages that are not identified as such and stories incorrectly labeled as "exclusive". There are also frequent announcements on the front page, which in retrospect turn out to be wrong. So the newspaper headline z. For example, during the coalition negotiations after the 2006 National Council elections, on page 1, “SPÖ minority government starts on Monday” or “Grasser will be vice chancellor”. Neither happened. When the new State Opera Director was appointed , the newspaper announced “Today Neil Shicoff will be the Opera Director”. Dominique Meyer then took over the office . In 2008, even before the Dancing Stars finale, the newspaper announced that Elisabeth Engstler was the winner - based on its own survey, according to which the clear majority of the population preferred her. However, the winner was Dorian Steidl . The responsible cultural department of the internet platform oe24.at managed the balancing act just in time due to its topicality and reported the facts accordingly. At the end of December 2009, Der Standard reported that the newspaper had been produced several days in advance over the Christmas holidays for cost reasons and could therefore not meet the requirements of a daily newspaper. On December 5, 2010, “So rocked Robbie Gottschalk” was used as the lead, followed by the title “Gottschalk: Robbie got the show out of a coma” on the inside - in fact, Wetten, dass ..? the evening before after the accident of a competitor (who had to be put into an artificial coma afterwards ). Robbie Williams' appearance with Take That never came back, but the newspaper was already in print at this point. In 2011, the newspaper announced an interview with Hugo Portisch on his new book Was Jetzt an, although Portisch said he told the Austria editor who made the call that he would not give an interview: “I was too polite, I would have hung up the phone right away should. So we had a short chat, but I told her very clearly: There is no interview. "
In October 2011 Austria headlined that Franco Foda would become the new team boss of the Austrian national soccer team , but the Swiss Marcel Koller was presented as team boss a few weeks later. Because of this and other errors, as well as "sensational texts that often culminate in insults" from the perspective of soccer players, the Austrian national soccer team wrote an open letter in which they objected to the "abundance of poorly or not at all researched articles in the daily newspaper". The Vienna Higher Regional Court described it as a "fact" that the newspaper was inventing interviews.
Another point of criticism is the edition specified by Fellner. Austria describes itself as the "newspaper with the highest circulation behind the Kronen Zeitung", although it does not mention that around 110,000 copies are given away every day but are not accepted by many people. Without these copies with reduced content, Austria is in fourth place in the ÖAK rating, behind the Kronen Zeitung, Kleine Zeitung and the Kurier . Measured by the number of copies sold, the ÖAK Austria shows in the 4th quarter of 2006 (3-5 publication Mondays of the new daily newspaper) as the fourth largest newspaper in the country, only measured by the distribution (copies sold and given away together) the ÖAK Austria shows as second largest newspaper in the country.
In a bizarre report on the Villach carnival parade in 2009, the newspaper referred to the Carinthian governor Uwe Scheuch in a caption as “Negermami”. Scheuch, who was not shown in the picture in question, successfully sued for an omission, but failed to seek compensation because he was not shown himself.
In 2012 the periodical reported on a live ticker about the funeral of a boy who had been violently killed. The ticker caused horror among observers with content such as "It's 20 degrees, the sun is shining - but the mourners are not particularly happy." Hanno Settele described the report as a “disgusting action” and demanded: “Wolfgang Fellner must be ostracized. From everyone who makes money in our industry. ” Microsoft and Bet-at-home canceled advertisements on the newspaper's homepage due to the newspaper's impudence. The press council condemned the reporting as an intrusion into the privacy of the child and his family members. In November of the same year, the newspaper spread the false rumor on its website that the main suspect in a murder case that was widely received by the media had been involved in a pornographic film as an actress.
In December 2014, the Press Council reprimanded the newspaper for the manner in which it reported the death of Robin Williams .
See also
Web links
- OE24 - online presence of the Austrian daily newspaper
- Online presence of the daily newspaper Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ No values are shown for Saturday
- ↑ a b Austrian edition control : edition list 1st half of 2014 ( Memento from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.1 MB). Retrieved February 15, 2015
- ↑ a b Working Group Media Analyzes : Media Analysis 13/14 - Daily Newspapers Total . Retrieved February 15, 2015
- ↑ 9.99 euros for a digital monthly subscription to “Austria” , Der Standard, July 1, 2013.
- ^ Cartel court allows "Austria" in underground boxes , Der Standard , February 4, 2014
- ↑ “Austria” can no longer call itself number one in Vienna - derStandard.at. Retrieved December 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Austrian circulation control of daily newspapers, annual average 2009 (PDF; 352 kB) ( Memento from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Austrian web analysis : ÖWA Basic - Roof Offers 2014 December ( Memento from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved February 15, 2015
- ^ "Austria" managing director Gert Edlinger leaves "- www.diepresse.com
- ↑ Imprint daily newspaper OeSTERREICH , accessed on February 8, 2015
- ↑ Austrian daily newspaper wins in name dispute, press release from "Österreich" -Zeitungsverlag GmbH on ots.at, March 7, 2007
- ↑ DWDL.de: Cooperation with CNN - Austria gets 24-hour news channel
- ↑ Teletest warns Fellners: At oe24tv do not "add apples with pears" - derstandard.at/2000045037554/Teletest-warnt-Fellners-Bei-oe24tv-nicht-Aepfel-mit-Birnen-addieren
- ↑ The Fellners draw the first balance
- ↑ Ö24.tv releases boss from duty - he wanted to found a works council: derstandard.at . Retrieved January 30, 2017.
- ↑ Harald Fidler: Österreichs Medienwelt from A to Z. Falter Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 10 (quotation) and 127
- ^ The Bank Robbery and the Media , The Media Blog, Feb. 28, 2007
- ^ OGH: "Austria" has to be accused of "hyena journalism" , Der Standard, November 10, 2008
- ^ Austria produced several days in advance , Der Standard dated December 28, 2009.
- ↑ Christina Maria Berr: Critique of the pure unreason. In: sueddeutsche.de , December 6, 2010.
- ↑ Portisch: "Never gave an Austrian interview about my book" ( Memento from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), KURIER from October 17, 2011, page 31.
- ↑ Open letter: National team defends itself against the daily newspaper "Austria". In: newsroom.de , November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Match for Vienna: The next level on the free scale In: derstandard.at , September 29, 2014.
- ↑ Philipp Aichinger: newspaper held Scheuch for "Negermami": no compensation. In: Die Presse , June 17, 2012.
- ^ "Austria" ticker on child funeral "disgusting". In: Die Presse , May 29, 2012.
- ^ Criticism of the oe24.at live ticker: Funeral "absolute taboo". In: Der Standard , May 29, 2012.
- ↑ Press Council condemns oe24.at for funeral tickers. In: Der Standard , October 12, 2012.
- ^ Porn clicks: The tabloid methods of "Austria". In: Profil , November 26, 2012.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Press Council reprimands "Austria" for report on the death of Robin Williams . Article dated December 5, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014.