Rheiderland newspaper
| Rheiderland newspaper
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| description | German daily newspaper |
| publishing company | H. Risius KG |
| First edition | September 1, 1860 |
| Frequency of publication | daily from Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 4790 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Kai-Uwe Hanken |
| Editor | Magarethe Lindemann |
| Web link | http://www.rheiderland.de |
The Rheiderland-Zeitung (RZ) is a traditional and independent small daily newspaper that has been published in Weener since 1860 . Its distribution area is the East Frisian Rheiderland . It is published by the small publisher H. Risius KG. In addition to the Ostfriesische Nachrichten in Aurich, the RZ is the last independent daily newspaper in East Frisia.
The newspaper appeared under the title Grenzlandzeitung "Rheiderland" into the 21st century . Until May 31, 2005 the Rheiderland-Zeitung was one of the last midday newspapers in Germany. Since June 1, 2005 it has been published as a morning newspaper. The sold circulation is 4790 copies, a decrease of 20.1 percent since 1998. Most subscribers and readers of the Rheiderland-Zeitung live in the Rheiderland, here it is also the most-read paper and competes with the Ostfriesen-Zeitung, which appears in all of East Frisia .
history
Even before they came to power in 1932, the National Socialists tried to infiltrate the newspaper and fill the editorial staff with party supporters. This was prevented by the old publisher Aeilt Risius, the well-known "newspapers only exist in freedom." On April 1, 1933, a long article appeared in the Rheiderland-Zeitung informing about the impending boycott of Jewish shops . In an advertisement with the Nazi emblem that was placed on the same day, it was stated that
- no longer buy a German in Jewish shops or from Jewish travelers,
- no German farmer should neither sell nor buy anything from a Jewish cattle or fur trader,
- if these orders are violated, they will be expelled from the ranks of the German national movement and the person concerned will then also be boycotted.
In the following years Risius was able to maintain the independence of his newspaper until it was closed by the Nazis in 1943. After the war, the newspaper could appear again from 1950.
Recent developments
The most recent drastic changes at the small newspaper are the result of conflicts in the East Frisian newspaper market. For a long time, almost all East Frisian newspapers were equipped with the supraregional cover pages of the Oldenburger Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ), which made it a quasi-monopoly. In the course of restructuring and savings at the NWZ and at the Ostfriesen-Zeitung (OZ), which was dominated by the NWZ at the time , the small newspapers like the RZ initially received cover pages that were identical to those of the OZ.
However, in 2004 the OZ reduced its reporting in the Rheiderland to a minimum as part of these savings. The Oldenburger NWZ did not see any competitive situation there with "their" OZ, since the independent data center was both a customer for shell sites and a cooperation partner. In the past, however, the NWZ endeavored to take over the entire East Frisian newspaper landscape, which it had largely succeeded in doing.
Apparently, the NWZ also made efforts at the RZ to take over the majority of the independent newspaper in Weener or to force it into the Ostfriesland newspaper group dominated by it ( Ostfriesen-Zeitung , General-Anzeiger , various advertising papers ). The RZ responded with the surprising step to terminate the contracts with the NWZ as the supplier of the cover pages and as a cooperation partner at the earliest possible date and to switch to the second major newspaper in the region, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ).
The reaction of the NWZ and OZ to this sudden and unexpected competitive situation in the Rheiderland was to resume reporting from the Rheiderland more intensively and even to set up a small OZ external editorial office in Weener in spring 2005, although an external editorial office was saved elsewhere the year before.
The Rheiderland-Zeitung , which until then had traditionally appeared as a midday newspaper, then pushed ahead with its change of cover pages and carried out this in March 2005. The newspaper has since appeared in the larger Rhenish format and consistently in four colors. In June 2005 the newspaper also became a morning paper and thus established "equality of arms" with regard to the topicality of the news. The RZ was the last lunchtime newspaper in Lower Saxony.
Edition
The Rheiderland newspaper , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The circulation sold has decreased by an average of 1.5% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 1.3%. It is currently 4790 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 89.1 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Almost on every kitchen table. Retrieved March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ daily newspapers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 24, 2015 ; accessed on March 6, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Rheiderland-Zeitung (RZ) celebrates its 150th anniversary: ceremony - anniversary edition - video trailer - chronicle. Retrieved March 6, 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 )
