Reformed press
| Reformed press | |
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| description | Weekly newspaper of reformed churches |
| Area of Expertise | Swiss Reformed Churches |
| language | German |
| First edition | August 16, 1996 |
| Editor-in-chief | Fabian Kramer |
| editor | Reformed media |
| executive Director | Thomas Gehrig |
| Web link | presse.ref.ch |
| ISSN |
1420-9934 |
| ZDB | 1333618-6 |
The Reformed Press was a Swiss weekly newspaper .
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The Reformed Press described itself in its subtitle as the «weekly newspaper of the reformed churches». The main content was news, comments and topics related to Swiss Protestantism and its religious and social environment. The features section next meetings offered theological literature also regularly film and media reviews. The newspaper was published by the Reformed Media , an organization of the Evangelical Reformed Churches in German-speaking Switzerland with headquarters in Zurich . Most recently the editor-in-chief was Fabian Kramer.
The main target groups of the Reformed Press were pastors , other employees and members of the authorities of the churches as well as an audience with a strong, mainly professional, interest in church and theological topics. The circulation ranged from 3,200 to 3,500 copies, depending on the edition (2014 figures). The Reformed Press was a subscription newspaper. Her five-person editorial team worked on the basis of an editorial statute and was journalistically independent as part of a general assignment. This mandate obliged the Reformed Press to provide information about current affairs and topics in the churches and to give space for the exchange of views in the field of theology, church, religion, ethics and society.
At the end of 2015, the Reformed Press stopped publishing; it was replaced by the bref magazine .
History of publication
The Reformed Press was the follow-up publication with the following title:
- Church journal for reformed Switzerland. Reinhardt, Basel 1844; 1845-1868; 1886-1928; 1929-1986, ZDB ID 516795-4
- Volksblatt for the Reformed Church in Switzerland. Bern 1869–1885, ZDB -ID 516796-6
- The Protestant. 1897–
- Evangelical press service EPD. 1927–
- Reformed forum. Reinhardt, Basel, 1987; 1988-1996, ZDB ID 896110-4
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The “Reformed Press” becomes “bref”. ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2016 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. In: ref.ch , Portal of the Reformed. 20th November 2015.
