Ostthüringer Zeitung

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Ostthüringer Zeitung
Ostthüringer Zeitung Logo 10.2019.svg
description German daily newspaper
publishing company Mediengruppe Thüringen Verlag GmbH
First edition 1990
Frequency of publication working days
Sold edition 72,558 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Jörg Riebartsch
Web link otz.de

Version of the logo

The Ostthüringer Zeitung (OTZ) is a regional daily newspaper based in Gera . Together with a partial circulation of the Thuringian national newspaper , it achieved a sold circulation of 72,558 copies, a decrease of 60.6 percent since 1998.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, OTZ has been published daily except Sundays in East Thuringia by Ostthüringer Zeitung Verlag, 40 percent of which belongs to the Funke media group , formerly the WAZ media group. Together with the Thüringer Allgemeine (TA) and the Thüringische Landeszeitung (TLZ), it belongs to the Thuringia newspaper group sales network . The total sold circulation of the three publications is 204,082 copies. Both newspapers also belong to the Funke media group. In some regions, such as Gera, Jena and the Saale-Holzland district, OTZ and TLZ appear in parallel. In Gera, OTZ and TLZ produce a joint local section that only differs in layout and design. In Jena, OTZ and TLZ formally exist separately, but have been producing a joint sheet with minor differences since 2009.

Regional editions appear in Bad Lobenstein , Eisenberg , Gera , Greiz , Jena , Pößneck , Rudolstadt , Saalfeld , Schleiz , Schmölln , Stadtroda and Zeulenroda-Triebes .

history

The OTZ went indirectly from the Volkswacht out that in the GDR the official press organ of the SED -Bezirksleitung Gera was. The Volkswacht came with its twelve local editions on a circulation of 215,200 copies.

On January 8, 1990, Dieter Hausold was elected as the new editor-in-chief. He resigned just 10 days later and was replaced by Ullrich Erzigkeit. This enforced the separation from the SED and a name change of the newspaper. There were death and bomb threats. The letters to the editor were of outstanding importance. The new parties and political movements were given the opportunity to present themselves. Erzigkeit was editor-in-chief of the newspaper until the end of 2013.

From 1990 the people's watch appeared briefly as Ostthüringer Nachrichten (OTN). When the WAZ had published the Ostthüringer Zeitung in the same distribution area through a subsidiary with the employees poached by the Ostthüringer Nachrichten and offered subscribers to the Ostthüringer Nachrichten for subscription, the OTN had to stop its publication.

Since 2010 the OTZ has been cooperating more closely with the other newspapers Thüringer Allgemeine (TA) and Thüringische Landeszeitung (TLZ) of the Mediengruppe Thüringen (MGT), formerly newspaper group Thuringia (ZGT), which in turn belongs to the Funke media group . In the print editions, a growing number of articles are exchanged with one another.

At the end of 2013, the OTZ printing center in the Löbichau district of Beerwalde in the Altenburger Land district was closed, affecting more than 100 employees. Since then, the OTZ has been printed partly in the ZGT's printing house in Erfurt and partly in Chemnitz .

Edition

The Ostthüringer Zeitung is one of the German daily newspapers with the greatest loss of circulation in recent years. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 4% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 6.6%. It is currently 72,558 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 94.6 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

With partial edition of the Thuringian national newspaper

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With a partial edition of the Thuringian national newspaper
  2. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  3. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  4. ↑ Ostthüringer Zeitung from August 12, 2016. (No longer available online.) In: Thüringen Kiosk. Mediengruppe Thüringen Verlag GmbH, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thueringen-kiosk.de
  5. ↑ Bernd Hilder (interviewer): "We simply put the SED in front of the door". Ullrich Erzigkeit remembers: How the editors of the district newspaper in Gera took away the freedom of the press. Thuringian newspaper, October 6, 2014
  6. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  8. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )