NEWS (Austrian magazine)
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Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Weekly |
Founder |
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Founded | 1992 |
First issue | October 1992 |
Company | VGN |
Country | Austria |
Based in | Vienna |
Language | German |
Website | News |
News is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna, Austria. The weekly is the major news magazine in the country[1] and has been in circulation since October 1992.
History and profile
[edit]News magazine was established by Helmut and Wolfgang Fellner and was first published in October 1992.[2][3][4] The Verlagsgruppe News is the publisher of the magazine which is published weekly.[5][6] The Fellner brothers sold the some shares of the company to Gruner + Jahr,[7][8] a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.[9] In 2016 Gruner + Jahr sold its shares to the Verlagsgruppe News, known as VGN.[10]
News covers entertainment and lifestyle topics[11] as well as news on current affairs, politics and culture.[12]
In the 1990s Senta Ziegler served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[13] Until 2008 Andreas Weber was the editor-in-chief of the weekly.[5] Then Atha Athanasiadis served as the editor-in-chief of the News magazine from 2008 to February 2010.[14] As of 2010 the editor-in-chief of the magazine was Peter Pelinka who was appointed to the post in February that year.[15] Corinna Milborn and Silvia Meister were the deputy editors of the weekly.[15]
Circulation
[edit]News sold more than 200,000 copies in 1993.[4] The market share of the magazine was 19.3% in 2000.[16] The magazine had a circulation of 254,000 copies in 2003.[6] Its readership in 2005 was about 14%, making it the first in its category.[17] In 2007 the magazine sold 285,000 copies.[18]
For the first half of 2008 the magazine had a circulation of 125,710 copies.[19] It was the third best-selling magazine in the country in 2008.[20] News sold 215,000 copies in 2010.[21] In 2012 its circulation was 125.751 copies,[7] and it was 135,875 copies in the first half of 2013.[12]
Incidents
[edit]In June 2005, News was fined by an Austrian court following its publication of Finance Minister Karl Heinz Grasser's photos kissing Fiona Swarovski, an heiress of the Swarovski crystal dynasty.[22]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Presse, Druckschriften". Austria Forum. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ Martina Thiele. "Press freedom and pluralism in Europe" (PDF). Intellect Books. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ Paul Krauskopf (1 October 2006). "The New Österreich". The Vienna Review. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Austria". Country Studies. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ a b Katja Böttcher (4 September 2008). "Editorial changes at Verlagsgruppe News". Media Bulletin. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Media Markets: Austria Country Overview". Russian Telecom. August 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ a b "World of media. Austria". G + J. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ Josef Trappel (2007). "The Austrian Media Landscape". In Georgios Terzis (ed.). European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions. Bristol; Chicago: Intellect Books. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5.
- ^ Paul Murschetz; Matthias Karmasin (2013). "Austria: Press Subsidies in Search of a New Design". In Paul Murschetz (ed.). State Aid for Newspapers. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-642-35691-9.
- ^ "VGN (Verlagsgruppe News)". dieMedien.at (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ^ Josef Trappel (2004). "Austria". In Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail (eds.). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. SAGE Publications. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-7619-4131-6.
- ^ a b "List of represented titles. Magazines" (PDF). Publicitas International AG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "The Rules of Media Etiquette". Herbig. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ Frizzi Seltmann (25 February 2010). "Austrian magazine News appoints new editorship". Media Bulletin. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Peter Pelinka is the New Editor-in-Chief of News Magazine". Publicitas. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "Austria". Press Reference. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Günther Lengauer (2008). "Framing campaigns: The media and Austrian elections". In Günter Bischof; Fritz Plasser (eds.). The Changing Austrian Voter. Transaction Publishers. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4128-1932-9.
- ^ Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market & Media Fact" (PDF). ZenithOptimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ^ "Austria: New circulation figures for the 1st half 2008". Publicitas. 20 August 2008. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ Thomas Hochwarterlump (3 March 2009). "Der Standard extends its readership as Die Presse's numbers slump". Austrian Times. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ "Western Europe Media Facts. 2011 Edition" (PDF). ZenithOptimedia. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ Danica Kirka (13 June 2005). "Finance minister, intern and heiress cause stir in Austria". Ocala StarBanner. Vienna. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Media related to NEWS (Austrian magazine) at Wikimedia Commons