East Frisian News
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| description | German daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Ostfriesische Nachrichten GmbH |
| First edition | January 26, 1864 |
| Frequency of publication | daily from Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 12,191 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Stephan Schmidt |
| Web link | ostfriesische-nachrichten.de |
The Ostfriesische Nachrichten (ON) is a traditional East Frisian daily newspaper that is based in Aurich and appears in the Rhenish format from Monday to Saturday . The first edition appeared on January 26, 1864. In the town of Aurich and its surrounding area, the so-called Altkreis Aurich, the paper is the most widely read daily newspaper. The circulation is 12,191 copies sold, a decrease of 7.6 percent since 1998. The editorial focus is on news and reports from the city of Aurich and the surrounding communities of Südbrookmerland , Brookmerland , Ihlow , Großefehn and the city of Wiesmoor . On the front page (with the exception of a highlighted column) usually only reports on topics from the district of Aurich and East Friesland, which creates a strong local connection for ON. On one or more Ostfriesland pages, there is also daily reports on events in the neighboring districts of Leer and Wittmund and the city of Emden. In spring 2005 the ON changed the provider of the supraregional cover pages . These are no longer supplied by the Nordwest-Zeitung in Oldenburg , but by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung in Osnabrück . The Ostfriesische Nachrichten has been printed in Nordhorn since 2005 . In mid-2009, ON was leased from a subsidiary of the Ostfriesland newspaper group . At the beginning of October 2009 a major downsizing was announced.
history
On April 1, 1861, the book printer journeyman Adolf Hermann Friedrich Dunkmann submitted an application to the city council of Aurich to set up a printer. On October 4th of that year he received the printing license. About two and a half years later, on January 26, 1864, the first edition of the newspaper appeared, at that time still under the title Auricher Nachrichten . The paper appeared on Tuesdays and Fridays - always on the Aurich market days, had four pages and cost one thaler a year. The advertising price was set at six pfennigs per line. After the paper was quickly successful beyond the borders of Aurich, it was renamed Ostfriesische Nachrichten on January 2, 1873 , expanded to include an Emder Lokal-Anzeiger. At that time the sheet had an edition of 1200 copies. At the beginning of 1895, AHF Dunkmann handed the company over to his son Adolf Heinrich.
Under his aegis the tide changed. In addition to the official communications, reports from the region and other "useful information", Dunkmann took a clear political stance. Increasing circulation numbers made it necessary to build a new publishing house that was built on Kirchstrasse.
After the death of Adolf Heinrich Dunkmann in March 1918, the ON authorized signatory and editor Karl Meyer led the company. The still young son of Adolf Heinrich, Dietmar Dunkmann, worked as an employee in the company.
The ON edition climbed to 10,300 by the end of the First World War . After that, the paper was exposed to the turbulence of inflation. In 1923 the ON single number cost 150 marks, the monthly subscription 3500 marks. In July the single number cost 400 marks, the subscription 10,000 marks. Then the prices began to rise so quickly that the subscription price often changed from one day to the next. The prices of materials and manufacture have risen up to a hundred and fifty times, which almost brought the company to its knees.
In the meantime, the newspaper had to cease publication due to a paper shortage. From September 1, 1923, it was reissued daily at a subscription price of one million marks. Three weeks later, 20 million marks had to be paid for one issue. On November 3rd, the ON cost 600 million marks. From December onwards, gold marks were used. The ON subscription price was now binding at 2.50 gold marks - the equivalent of 2.5 trillion paper marks.
The Dunkmann publishing house was hit hard by the consequences of inflation. In 1932 Dietmar Dunkmann took over the management of the house. The National Socialists opposed the bourgeois-liberal ON with their own local newspaper, the Ostfriesische Tageszeitung - National Socialist People's Gazette for Workers of All Estates (OTZ). This again almost brought ON to its knees.
After the war, it was not until 1949 that Dunkmann received a newspaper license. The first edition of ON after the war appeared on September 27, 1949. Dietmar Dunkmann died on June 7, 1950. The paper was now run by his widow Maud Dunkmann. At that time, the old East Frisian publishers agreed on the protection of their areas of distribution "in mutual consideration in competition". On this basis, a newspaper landscape that is still diverse today emerged in East Frisia, unlike anywhere else in the Federal Republic of Germany. Each district kept its traditional local newspaper with correspondingly differentiated local reporting. Even after the territorial reform in 1978, when the north district was merged into the Aurich district, ON remained in the "Altkreis Aurich" distribution area. Accordingly, the Aurich district has two traditional local newspapers. To this day, the East Frisian Courier is read in the "Altkreis Norden" .
Edition
In contrast to most of the German daily newspapers , the Ostfriesische Nachrichten has seen only a slight decrease in circulation in recent years . The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.3% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 1.2%. It is currently 12,191 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 87 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
Reprimands of the press council
In December 2014 the Ostfriesische Nachrichten received a "non-public reprimand" from the press council . According to the complaints committee of the organization of the major German publishers 'and journalists' associations, the newspaper reported in too much detail about the alleged acts in a court report on multiple sexual abuse and thereby stigmatized the victim in his social environment . For reasons of victim protection, “non-public reprimands” do not have to be published by the medium concerned. The newspaper received another - public - reprimand in 2001.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ 150 years of "Ostfriesische Nachrichten". Retrieved March 10, 2015 .
- ↑ ON will be published by ZGO subsidiary in the future . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung , February 26, 2009
- ^ Publishing history of the Ostfriesische Nachrichten. Retrieved March 10, 2015 .
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Oliver Schlappat (contact person): Too many details from legal proceedings . Press release of the German Press Council of December 5, 2014. Accessed March 23, 2019.
- ↑ Overview of the Rügen . Presserat.de; Retrieved December 12, 2014.