Ã…rhus Stiftstidende

Aarhus pin Tidende is a regional, Danish daily newspaper based in Aarhus, the second largest city in the country. In contrast to the national Jyllands-Posten, which also has its headquarters in Aarhus, it uses only the readership of the city and its surrounding area. To coexist with local offices in Aarhus and Odder Skanderborg and for the municipalities Favrskov, Syddjurs and Norddjurs.

The independent newspaper of bourgeois coinage suffered a significant fall in their support over the past years. She lay about in 1978 at 74,000 copies per day, the newspaper sold in May 2011, only 19 661 times ( weekend edition: 24 567 times). Compared with other Danish newspapers of the loss fell within a year with 15.5 % ( 14.3%) most of.

History

The printer Niels Lund received by the Danish King Christian VII in 1787 permission, a printing press and a newspaper to set up. But only six years later he transferred to the necessary capital, so that he could bring out his first newspaper on January 3, 1794. At that time it was published under the name ( Kongelig allernaadigst privilegerede ) Aarhuus pin address Contoirs Tidender and gradually evolved into a leading provincial newspaper in the region. Since 1831, a moderate - conservative -oriented newspaper published under the shorter and present name Århus pin Tidende.

After the Second World War, the Aarhus Stiftstidende supplanted the remaining papers of the city from the market, including most recently in 1974 the Democrats. However, the Jyllands-Posten conquered in the local market area, moving from local editions published it in the 1960s for the city districts. The result was a newspaper war to the local advertising market, which ended only in 1976 with a comparison and the withdrawal of the Jyllands-Posten. Although this led to a dominant position for the Aarhus Stiftstidende as the sole local newspaper of the city, but she was trapped in her role as a provincial newspaper. While Jyllands-Posten assumed a national character, the Aarhus pin Tidende had to take into account the wishes of the audience in the hinterland.

After the merger with Amtsavis Randers (1998), the Company completed in 2007 along with the media group De Bergske Blade, which jointly Midtjyske Medier founded, the largest media provider in the Region Midtjylland. Midtjyske Medier themselves (since 2000 to 90%) part of the Group Berlingske Media, which also includes the second largest newspaper in Denmark, Berlingske heard.