City Gazette

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City Gazette
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description Former daily newspaper, most recently former free Sunday newspaper
publishing company Stadtblatt AG
First edition 1897 (as an indicator by Töss )
attitude June 7, 2008
Frequency of publication last on Sundays
Widespread edition 46,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Guido Blumer

The Stadtblatt was a daily newspaper and most recently a free Sunday newspaper from Winterthur in Switzerland .

The small newspaper emerged from the labor movement and fought against the liberal Neue Winterthurer Tagblatt and the democratic country messenger .

Most recently, the newspaper was published by Stadtblatt AG (formerly Stadtblatt Verlags AG) and was distributed free to all households every Sunday. It was the only free Sunday newspaper in German-speaking Switzerland and the only Sunday newspaper that was limited to local events. By switching from the weekly subscription to the Sunday newspaper that was freely delivered, the circulation increased tenfold while the budget was doubled.

history

In 1897 a left-wing weekly newspaper was launched in the industrial suburb of Töss in Winterthur under the name Anzeiger von Töss . It later traded as the Winterthurer Bezirksanzeiger und Anzeiger von Töss . In 1903, the two Social Democrats Walter and Gremminger bought the Bezirksanzeiger and signed a contract with the Winterthur Workers' Union that made the newspaper a social democratic party journal . From October 1st, the newspaper was called Winterthurer Arbeiterzeitung (abbreviated to Winterthurer AZ from 1970 ) and changed over to daily publication in the course of 1904. From 1914 onwards, the Winterthur AZ took over the supraregional part of the Zurich people's law .

From 1970 to 1972 the newspapers Freier Aargauer (Aarau), Thurgauer AZ (Arbon), AZ Abendzeitung (Basel), Freie Innerschweiz (Lucerne), Das Volk (Olten), Volksstimme (St. Gallen), Schaffhauser AZ , Oberländer AZ (Wetzikon ), Volksrecht (new Zurich AZ) and Winterthur AZ form a network with a common national shell (AZ ring). AZ then produced the joint part of the jacket for a year. After it was discontinued, the social democratic AZ in Winterthur was forced to cooperate with the free-spirited Badener Tagblatt for its domestic and international pages. This controversial collaboration lasted until 1988.

The Winterthur AZ appeared from 1988 together with the Ostschweizer AZ (St. Gallen), the Schaffhauser AZ, the Berner Tagwacht and the Volksrecht (later DAZ, Zurich) in a header system with common cover pages. These were now no longer social democratic or trade union, but left-green. So the party press was replaced. After some of these partner newspapers had to cease publication, the social democratic daily changed in 1997 to become an "independent and reflective weekly newspaper" under the name Stadtblatt , which appears three times a week . The Stadtblatt appeared as a subscription newspaper until 2007, and since 2008 as an advertising-financed Sunday newspaper that was distributed to all households. With the change from Thursday to Sunday publication, the Stadtblatt lost its status as an official publication organ.

On June 7, 2008, the publishing house had to lay off its employees and stop the publication of the Stadtblatt. According to Guido Blumer, publisher of the Stadtblatt, the concept had caught on with the readers, but it ultimately failed on the advertising market.

In mid-2009, Stadtblatt AG filed for bankruptcy. Plans to revive the Stadtblatt as a free weekly newspaper by looking for sponsors to repay the debts of 700,000 francs and to achieve cost savings on office space and by restructuring the editorial team came to nothing.

Edition

year Edition Remarks
1950 5,000
1960 4,000
2007 4,400
2008 46,000 Changeover to free Sunday newspaper

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtblatt Winterthur launches the first free Sunday newspaper in German-speaking Switzerland. In: Handelszeitung . January 4, 2008.
  2. ^ Stadtblatt Verlags AG, in Winterthur. In: SHAB . No. 138, July 19, 2005, p. 21.
  3. ↑ A lot of ambition and a lot of Winterthur. The "Stadtblatt" will now appear as a free newspaper on Sunday. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 7, 2008.
  4. ^ "Stadtblatt" is no longer an official publication. In: persoenlich.com. December 12, 2007.
  5. ↑ Bitter experiences. In: The Landbote .
  6. ↑ Winterthur AZ, City Gazette. In: winterthur-glossar.ch (with historical newspaper titles ).
  7. ^ "Stadtblatt" rises from the ashes. In: The Landbote. December 10, 2008.
  8. ^ «Stadtblatt» is bankrupt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. July 3, 2009.