Schaffhauser AZ

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Schaffhauser AZ
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description Swiss weekly newspaper
publishing company az Verlags AG
First edition November 30, 1918
Frequency of publication weekly (thursdays)
Sold edition 2,041 (previous year 1,953) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Widespread edition 2,114 (previous year 2,025) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Range 0.014 million readers
(Website of the Schaffhausen AZ )
Editors-in-chief Mattias Greuter and Marlon Rusch
editor Bernhard Ott
Web link www.schaffhauseraz.ch

The Schaffhauser AZ ( spelling schaffhauser az ) is a left-wing Swiss weekly newspaper . The newspaper, which appears in Schaffhausen on Thursdays , is aimed at readers in the canton of Schaffhausen and its agglomerations in the northern Zürcher Weinland and in the Diessenhofen district of the canton of Thurgau and sees itself as an antithesis to the only Schaffhausen daily newspaper, the liberal-bourgeois Schaffhauser Nachrichten . The Schaffhauser AZ is the only still existing classic workers' newspaper in Switzerland. The WEMF - certified support is 2'041 (PY 1,953.) Sold or 2,114 (2,025 Vj.) Non copies. According to its own statements, the newspaper is read by around 14,000 people every week .

publishing company

Since 1996 the newspaper has been published by "az Verlags AG". The Chairman of the Board of Directors is the former long-time editor-in-chief of Schaffhauser AZ , the former National Councilor and President of the SP Switzerland Hans-Jürg Fehr . The publisher has share capital of CHF 435,000. The approximately 50 shareholders are close to SP Switzerland. However, the Schaffhauser AZ is no longer the official party organ of the Schaffhauser SP. 60 percent of the costs are covered by advertisements and 30 percent by subscriptions. The AZ patrons' association pays the remaining 10 percent.

history

On November 30, 1918, the Schaffhauser AZ appeared for the first time under the name Arbeiter-Zeitung , only 14 days after the unsuccessful general strike was broken off . Two other workers' newspapers, the People's Law from Zurich and the Berner Tagwacht , appeared 20 years earlier. Both newspapers no longer exist today. In the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, the Schaffhauser AZ was first an SP newspaper, then a communist newspaper and from 1935 again an SP newspaper. The Schaffhausen AZ appeared as a daily newspaper until 1997 . Financial reasons forced the publisher to convert the Schaffhauser AZ in mid-1997 into a newspaper that appeared three times a week and in 1998 finally into a weekly newspaper.

literature

  • Adrian Knoepfli: "We are there and will stay there" . Verlag am Platz, Schaffhausen 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 21 (PDF; 796 kB).
  2. ↑ a b advertisements. In: Website of the Schaffhausen AZ .