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Weekly look
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description Weekly newspaper
publishing company Medien24 GmbH
First edition 2016
Frequency of publication weekly (Thursdays)
Sold edition 35,000 copies
( As of 2016 )
Range 0.8 million readers
( SimilarWeb )
Web link wochenblick.at

The Wochenblick is a regional weekly newspaper in Upper Austria and an online newspaper .

history

The newspaper was founded in March 2016. Medien24 GmbH based in Brunnenthal is the media owner (publisher) and manufacturer . The owner is the 100% shareholder Emotion Media GmbH . The first editor-in-chief was Kurt Guggenbichler , who previously worked for Oberösterreichische Nachrichten for 25 years . On May 4, 2018, Christian Seibert replaced him as editor-in-chief, a position he held until March 2020. The managing director is Norbert Geroldinger. In the first few weeks the newspaper was distributed free of charge on the streets of Linz and Wels.

Range and range

In addition to the print edition, which appears every Thursday, the medium also operates a daily updated online portal. Special issues are published at irregular intervals under the name Wochenblick Spezialmagazin , of which six issues currently exist (as of January 24, 2020). In August 2019, the medium also added the video portal Wochenblick TV , on which content appears several times a week, as well as opinion contributions from editors and live discussion panels. As an alternative to the conventional subscription, readers can also become members of the so-called Wochenblick Club , which promises discounts on events organized by the newspaper.

According to the social media analysis tool Storyclash , in November 2019 the weekly view ranks 15th among the most important media on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. More than half of the medium's online users came from Germany in December 2019.

Self-image

Wochenblick states that the editorial line is to produce “information, news, reports and reports” for Upper Austria. They acknowledge “journalistic ethics and freedom, pluralistic diversity of opinion and biodiversity, homeland and human rights, democracy and Austria”.

Criticism and Public Perception

The newspaper is the butterfly a close relationship with the FPÖ rumored, including the week view to be financed by them. Both sides deny a connection. In the past it was also rumored that the editors of the weekly view should have worked for FPÖ organizations.

The documentation archive of the Austrian resistance describes the weekly view as a “disinformation project on the right edge”. According to Falter, Wochenblick should regularly publish right-wing conspiracy theories and memes . The Ruhr Nachrichten also charged that the weekly view had falsified the reporting on New Year's Eve 2016/17 in Dortmund .

In March 2018, the Wochenblick was sentenced to pay 3,000 euros for defamation. The judgment was confirmed by the Linz Regional Court in July 2018. In the same court case it became known that Wochenblick received around 850,000 euros a year from unknown donors. According to its management, this sponsorship should also be understood as researching and writing for certain people if they have a special request. However, those responsible did not see the independence of the newspaper as compromised.

The newspaper was reprimanded several times by the Austrian Press Council for its reporting. Referring to a five-part series of articles on refugees in Sweden, he concluded that the articles "had nothing in common with professional and responsible journalism".

The Austrian Ministry of Transport placed several advertisements in the weekly view about measures of the ministry, which was criticized by the SPÖ. When advertisements in right-wing media came back into the media focus after the FPÖ's participation in government, the then FPÖ General Secretary Christian Hafenecker criticized their theming as “another attempt to fail”, the sums were also “not excessive”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Imprint , on wochenblick.at. Retrieved October 2, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Imprint - weekly view. In: wochenblick.at. Archived from the original on July 18, 2017 ; accessed on July 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Wochenblick gets a new editor-in-chief. In: ots.at. May 4, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  4. ^ "Wochenblick": New weekly newspaper for Upper Austria. In: derstandard.at. March 24, 2016, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Homepage Wochenblick TV. In: wochenblick.at. Retrieved July 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ https://rankings.storyclash.com/social-media-ranking-oesterreich-2019/
  7. ↑ Statistics on SimilarWeb
  8. ↑ a b Florian Klenk: Boris wanted to burn me. In: falter.at. November 8, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Jakob Winter, Ingrid Brodnig : Freedom of the press: The newspaper "Wochenblick" and the FPÖ. In: profil.at. August 3, 2016, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ News from the far right. In: doew.at. December 2017, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Peter Bandermann: How the media use New Year's Eve to build up hatred. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. January 4, 2017, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  12. ^ Lecture on extremism: "Wochenblick" convicted of defamation. In: nachrichten.at. March 16, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Final judgment: Wochenblick Welser has to pay 3000 euros. In: nachrichten.at. July 23, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Thomas Streif: Does the Wochenblick get up to 850,000 euros for "order research"? In: nachrichten.at. January 5, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Province of Upper Austria: Vortex around advertisements in right-wing media. In: kleinezeitung.at. April 14, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Press Council accounts with "Wochenblick". In: The Standard. July 26, 2018, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  17. ^ SPÖ criticizes advertisements from the Ministry of Transport. In: orf.at. September 14, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018 .
  18. ↑ FPÖ government members advertised for 116,000 euros in right-wing media. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .