Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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Head office in Zurich, as seen from Sechseläutenplatz

The {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (NZZ; "New Newspaper of Zurich") is German language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zurich.<ref>Template:Historical Dictionary of Switzerland</ref> The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the German Swiss newspaper of record, and for detailed reports on international affairs.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

History and profileEdit

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Zürcher Zeitung, no. 1 (1780)

One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> edited by the Swiss painter and poet Salomon Gessner, on 12 January 1780.<ref name=bbc4>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=arian/> It was renamed {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} in 1821.

According to Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, many prestige German language newspapers followed its example because it set "standards through an objective, in-depth treatment of subject matter, eloquent commentary, an extensive section on entertainment, and one on advertising."<ref>Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, eds. (1998). Modern Germany: And Encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871–1990 2:786.</ref>

Aside from the switch from its blackletter typeface in 1946, the newspaper has changed little since the 1930s. Only in 2005 did it add color pictures, much later than most mainstream papers. The emphasis is on international news, business, finance, and high culture. Features and lifestyle stories are kept to a minimum.

Historically, the newspaper has been politically positioned close to the liberal Free Democratic Party of Switzerland since its early period.<ref name="arian">Template:Cite book</ref> The paper's official statutes and guidelines declare it to have a "liberal democratic foundation".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Accordingly, it has traditionally adopted a free-market liberal<ref name=bbc4/> and centre-right orientation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, in 2014, Markus Somm (formerly an editor at the Basler Zeitung), a more pronounced right-wing journalist, was slated to became editor-in-chief, leading to fears of a rightward shift by staff and resulting in internal protest. The internal upheaval eventually lead to Somm not taking on his role. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, the appointment of Eric Gujer as editor-in-chief in 2015 and René Scheu as head of the feature section in 2016, as well as almost half of all contributing editors leaving the newspaper between 2015 and December 2017, marked a noticeable shift to the right, according to critics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CirculationEdit

The circulation of {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} was 18,100 copies in 1910.<ref name=arian/> It rose to 47,500 copies in 1930 and 66,600 copies in 1950.<ref name=arian/>

In 1997, the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} had a circulation of 162,330 copies.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Its circulation was 169,000 copies in 2000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The circulation of the paper was 166,000 copies in 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The 2006 circulation of the paper was 146,729 copies.<ref name=srev>Template:Cite journal</ref> Its circulation was 139,732 copies in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 2010, the paper had a circulation of 136,894 copies.<ref name=ina>Template:Cite news</ref>

Weekend editionEdit

In 2002, the newspaper launched a weekend edition, NZZ am Sonntag (NZZ on Sunday).<ref name=bbc4/> The weekend edition has its own editorial staff and contains more soft news and lifestyle issues than its weekday counterpart, as do most Swiss weekend newspapers. Its circulation was 121,204 copies in 2006.<ref name=srev/>

NZZ am Sonntag was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of weekly newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ArchivesEdit

In 2005, the complete run of the newspaper's first 225 years was scanned from microfilm. A total of two million images comprising seventy terabytes, and its Blackletter type was scannedTemplate:Spaced ndash using optical character recognition Template:Spaced ndash at a total cost of €600,000 (or €0.30 per image). The result is a searchable digital archive, accessible online by subscribers and publicly on site in Zurich.

The digitization was carried out by an institute of the German research organization Fraunhofer Society Template:Spaced ndash the Institute for Media Communication (since 2006, the Template:Interlanguage link multi), headquartered in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia.<ref>Klaus Jacob. (February 2005). "70 Terabyte Zeitgeschichte" Template:Webarchive. Fraunhofer Magazin. Retrieved 23 August 2012.</ref>

Editors-in-chiefEdit

1821 – 1830: Paul Usteri
1830 – 1849: 10 different editor-in-chiefs
1849 – 1867: Peter Jakob Felber
1868 – 1872: Eugen Escher
1872 – 1876: Hans Weber
1876 – 1877: Eugen Huber
1877 – 1878: Gottwalt Niederer
1878 – 1884: Gustav Vogt
1885 – 1915: Walter Bissegger
1915 – 1929: Albert Meyer
1933 – 1968: Willy Bretscher
1968 – 1985: Fred Luchsinger
1985 – 2006: Hugo Bütler
2006 – 2014: Markus Spillmann
since 2015: Eric Gujer

NZZ LibroEdit

NZZ Libro is the book publishing part of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Books have been published since 1927; since 1980, the publishing house has been run as a separate profit centre. Since 2006 the publishing house has operated under the name NZZ Libro. The publishing programme of specialist and non-fiction literature includes, among other things, political, cultural, historical, and economic books, as well as biographies and illustrated books, predominantly with a Swiss reference.<ref name="nzz-libro">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

AwardEdit

The {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} was a co-recipient of the 1979 Erasmus Prize, alongside German newspaper Die Zeit.<ref>"Erasmus Prize". The Age (via Google News). 21 September 1979. Retrieved 23 August 2012. "The 1979 Erasmus Prize for outstanding contribution to European culture was presented jointly yesterday to the Swiss daily newspaper 'Neue Zuercher Zeitung' and the West German weekly 'Die Ziet'."</ref>