20 Minuten
20 minutes or 20 minutes French and Italian 20 minuti is a free Swiss commuter newspaper, which was founded by the Norwegian Schibsted publishing. In 2005 she was acquired by the Swiss media company Tamedia. Editor in Chief 's Marco Boselli.
Switzerland
Print medium
20 minutes published in tabloid format, and since September 2004, the most widely read daily newspaper in Switzerland ( Wemf - certified edition 2011: 699'612 ). The range is in German Switzerland, according to the Mach- Basic study of 2011-1 Wemf 31.1 percent. The newspaper is popular compared to other titles, especially with the younger audience. 20 minutes was first published in Zurich in 1999 and the then simultaneously started competing metropolitan newspaper out of the market. Since 15 May 2006, she was also competing on the free evening newspaper today. today was replaced on June 2, 2008 by Blick am Abend. The competition started as a further 20 minutes in the 2007 free newspapers. Ch and news were added two years later.
Meanwhile, there are the following regional editions:
- German Switzerland (20 minutes): Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Zurich
- French Switzerland (20 minutes): Geneva and Lausanne
- Italian Switzerland (20 minuti ): Lugano
The mantle section of the newspaper is produced centrally for the German speaking part of Switzerland in Zurich; the local teams in the five cities make each two pages for their regional edition. Overall, the newspaper has approximately 280 employees. The approximately 50 people working in the print and online editors. The West Swiss central editorial office is located in Lausanne, the Ticino in Lugano- Breganzona.
20 minutes presented news in the shortest possible form. A greater importance have tabloid stories and the service part. Also see the regular public reports. This is advertising that is disguised as a seemingly neutral and objective -researched article.
20 minutes is distributed in newspaper boxes in stations, the core cities and agglomerations according to the self-service principle. Since October 30, 2008 is on a Friday lunch in German Switzerland the People- magazine 20 Minuten Friday in about 900 20 - minutes - boxes as well as from resellers on. Since 1 January 2009, the Swiss Classifieds Portal Piazza.ch belongs to 20 minutes.
Website
Most of the articles are also published on the website of 20 minutes. The lyrics are sometimes identical, sometimes extended or shortened. In so-called photo galleries additional picture material is often published. Visitors to the site have the opportunity to comment on articles.
As an application is 20 minutes for iOS, Android and Windows Phone downloadable for free. Similarly, there are for iOS devices, the TV -screen app 20 minutes online.
Germany
1999, a 20 -minute edition was launched in Cologne. However, this was 2001 - set back - after a fierce defensive battle through the Cologne media. For the events surrounding this competition, the term established by the Cologne newspaper war.
Europe
20 minutes appears to metro ( 6 issues ) in direct competition in Spain ( 9 issues ) and France. The Spanish edition 20 minutos the first newspaper is licensed under a Creative Commons License.