der Freitag
Friday is a national German weekly newspaper with leftist orientation, founded in 1990 with the subtitle The east-west - weekly. 2009, the newspaper has been redesigned significantly after ownership changes: In addition to visual and content changes, especially the online activities with the objective of equal combination of online and print edition and more intense interaction with the audience were greatly expanded. Simultaneously, the subtitle was changed in the opinion of the medium. Publication date of the print edition is Thursday, publication Berlin. Publisher since 2008 Jakob Augstein, who also took over the editorship in February 2013.
History and structures
1990-2009: " The East-West Weekly "
The Friday was founded in 1990 in Berlin. In it, the East Berlin Sunday went (founded in 1946), the DKP near People's Daily ( founded in 1953 and substantially funded by the SED ) and the fact ( established in 1949 by the VVN ) to a new, all-German newspaper. The Friday saw his journalistic task initially to critically and constructively to accompany the coalescence of the two German states and to provide a forum for East-West debate. He turned it primarily to an urban, educated, middle-class readership left. A reader survey in 2006 found that about a third of the Friday - readers came from the new federal states.
The founding editors were Günter Gaus († ), Wolfgang Ullmann ( †), Gerburg Treusch -Dieter († ) and Christoph Hein. When asked what the term "left" him mean, Gaus answered in conversation with Alexander Kluge in 1993: "I call on the left, that you hold social issues a priority. That one social responses that are given each time very skeptical checks whether it can really be more than a day's answer. "
By 1996, the Friday of the media Schmidt & Partner, which was responsible among other things for the publisher Elephants Press belonged. In the spring of the year Friday was sold for the symbolic price of one mark. At that new ownership group included the journalists Ursel Sieber, Wolfgang Storz and Holger Schmale, the doctor Willi Brüggen and the social scientist Frieder Otto Wolf. It succeeded the new publishers to rid the company of almost the entire burden of debt in the amount of 1.5 million marks.
Restart 2008/2009: " The opinion Medium"
On 26 May 2008, the publisher and journalist Jakob Augstein bought the Friday and formally took over on June 1 of the year the newspaper. Under Jakob Augstein Friday initially received a new editorial structure: From autumn 2008 to Philip Grassmann was previously in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, chief editor of the far more democratic basis organized editors. His deputy was 2010-2012 Jörn Kabisch beforehand with the taz. He was followed to the April 2012 Jana Hensel after. Augstein even joined the editorship February 2013. Mid-June 2010 changed Ulrike Winkelmann of the taz on Friday and was head of the political departments. She left the sheet after just under a year and returned to the taz. This was followed from September 2011 to February 2013 by Verena Schmitt Roschman that was previously nationwide political correspondent for DAPD. Art director was in February 2013, Janine bag. Similar to the Taz editors and writers earn significantly less than other newspapers.
The management of the Friday Media mbH & Co. KG took over Detlev Hustedt. He was previously Deputy Group Advertising Director at the WELT Group and advertising manager for the weekly The Week, as well as Managing Director of News Agency pressetext.deutschland. In March 2010, CEO Hustedt left the Friday. To restart the Friday increased its support of Issue 06 /2008 to 70,000 copies. Similarly, the number of outlets nationwide was temporarily increased to more than 20,000.
After first displaying branded products appeared in till then display poor Friday, there were on the letters page discussion about the future course of the leaf, where Augstein pointed to the economic necessity of the advertising business and underlined the editorial independence of Friday's against all outside interests.
On 5 February 2009 was a visual redesign of the newspaper and the website. In addition to the articles the editors and an archive also bloggers given the opportunity there now to publish their own articles in the "Community". A selection from this week will be published in the print edition. The number of editorial staff was increased from seven to twenty and the outlets fifteen-fold. The publisher has 35 employees. The title logo has been changed, the name of the editor have been removed from the title page; the imprint did not contain any reference to the Sunday and on the People's Daily.
Since the founding of the newspaper circulation has declined significantly. In 1990, she was still at around 50,000 copies. The paid circulation currently stands at 16,804 copies. Between November 2009 and summer 2011 edition was no longer reported by the IVW. The relevant data were provided only subsequently by the IVW. From late 1998 until the end of 2008 the number of subscribers declined by about 26 percent according to the IVW. After the relaunch of Friday in 2009, the downward trend initially continued, but could then be stopped despite the termination of a significant number of old subscribers. The number of subscribers increased by 15 % since then.
Development of sold copies
Development of subscriber numbers
However, the sheet can hold entrepreneurially only through the support Augstein. The losses of the Friday are in fact funded by profits from Augstein Mirror shares.
In December 2011, the publisher Jakob Augstein from the previous editors of the newspaper Daniela Dahn, György Dalos, Frithjof Schmidt and Friedrich Schorlemmer separated. He argued that the period of transition is now complete with the takeover of the newspaper, the Friday now have the character of a normal newspaper (and no longer one project '), from which it follows that the institution of the editors for Friday 've survived. Background was the civil war in Libya, which could not appear in the Friday, so they published it in the leaves for German and international politics, a contribution of Dahn.
As a response to the economic situation of the sheet Augstein announced that the 40 - member editorial staff in 2013 to reduce by nine points. In the weeks prior to this communication, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported on insolvency; the Financial Times Germany appeared for the last time (see also newspaper closures ).
Content and newspaper books
The Friday there since the re-launch of three books. The existing books "politics" and "culture" have been revised and supplemented by the new third book " Everyday Life". In the book " Everyday Life" portraits, more interviews, reading pieces and columns as well as preprints of non-fiction books are provided.
- First book (formerly Policy)
- Culture under the leadership of Michael Angele
- Everyday life
A new element of the print edition for example, was the week Chronicle on page 12 in a subjective selection of the editor puts together the most important events of the previous week. Further developed and provided with a large illustration was the history of everyday life, a journalistic and literary short story. In addition, the knowledge section of the newspaper was expanded to two pages. Also new are the lexicon of the present and the storyboard in which an illustrator draws based on a true story, but it brings its own ideas to an end. In contrast, the literature section was reduced from two to one side.
Although the press code of the German Press Council in principle in its policy 2.6 provides that letters are to be printed with full attribution, appear on the letters page of the Friday mostly pseudonymous and anonymous letters from readers, which are taken from the blogs of Friday community. The editorial board believes they do not need to know the names of the persons concerned, and transfers the practices in their web forum on the printed newspaper. The German Press was this approach as compliant with the policy, so long as applicable to the origin of the contributions it referred. This note is not found, however, on the letters page.
Appearance
The Friday appears in the so-called Rhenish format ( type area is 325 mm wide and 465 mm high) every Thursday with 28 full -color pages.
The fonts are set in a further developed by font designer Lucas de Groot TheAntiqua. De Groot designed, inter alia, the writings of the mirror and the daily newspaper. Until issue 05 /2009 Stempel Garamond was used.
The Friday online
The website was completely redesigned for the 5th February 2009. Furthermore, several times a day own and translated into German texts from the British Guardian and Observer syndication will be published online. The editorial changes to both the print and online edition.
Editorial contributions are equally important to those of the "community" that will serve as a platform for "critical debates and controversial points of view ." It is based on the offer of the Guardian, which has currently thirteen million users. Readers will gain the opportunity to comment on the content. The Friday wants to combine online and print issue closely.
Users can comment on articles and rate and post in your own blog. Selected contributions will be rewarded and recognized in the print edition. Here, commentators, bloggers and journalists are distinguished. The latter reflect the editorial staff and the community 's view on long-term higher-quality content. Depending on the origin - - To create a transparency in the sources of the articles, the articles are also provided in the print edition with color codes.
Website and community were designed in collaboration with bloggers who also wrote there first. After a while it came to criticism. The editorial concept for the interaction of Blog and Print has since been amended several times. Friday Editor Jakob Augstein had been critical of the political blogosphere in the context of the current newspaper crisis.
In September / October 2009 Jakob Augstein discussed with the users of the community Friday on the issue of paid use of the offer.
The former freelancers of Friday Rudolf Walther moved in February 2014 on the fifth anniversary of the leaf reform a rather sobering conclusion. Many former editors and freelancers had left the leaf. The reference to the model of the Guardian at the link between print and online was a " fit of hubris ." The online community has evolved into a " children's play area ." Meanwhile, it became clear that " While investing money on the net and sink, but earn only with the printed newspaper which " could. Whether there will be the Friday in five years from now, is uncertain, given the stagnant circulation.
Syndication "The Guardian"
Friday has a partnership with the British newspaper The Guardian for the German speaking countries. The Guardian provides three to eight translated into German articles per issue. This, according to Jakob Augstein lead to more international issues Friday.
Another element of this cooperation is a microsite of the Guardian on the website of Friday. The microsite summarizes selected English-language articles and topics for the reader and link to the complete range of the Guardian. With the microsite the site is to be published so far only in German-speaking countries, in the message of two independent media companies. Ajar Visually, the microsite to the main page of the Guardian.
According to Colin Hughes, Managing Director of The Guardian, the collaboration is just beginning: "We hope that we can deepen the relationship over time on. "
Similar cooperation has been the Guardian world with more than 80 media partners. " The concept that Mr. Augstein developed, fits very well with our expectations. Friday is a perfect partner with whom we are happy to work together to make accessible our content to a new audience, "said Hughes.
Awards
In February 2010, the newspaper of the Society for News Design, based in Orlando (Florida ) next to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper and the New York Times as World's Best Designed Newspaper Award in 2009.
In the contracts awarded in Hamburg in March 2010 LeadAwards the online offer was given the award in the category " web magazine of the year".
In the May 2010 awarded in Frankfurt the German Art Directors Club Awards online offer received in the category " Online Editorial " a bronze nail.
For the satirical article " Integrated you!" To Sarrazin debate was Ulrike Winkelmann, head of the department policy, awarded the Alternative Media Award 2011.
Responses to Friday
The following comments relate to the Friday before the restart 2009:
" Friday is now the smartest German weekly newspaper - small but unmistakable sovereign, sometimes pleasantly anachronistic. "
" My impression is that the company has developed state- federated Germany far to the right. What was once left liberal among the leaves of the old Federal Republic, has become neoliberal; some also German national. The policy of the country and the presentation and discussion in the media has flip side. Whether it helps that the Friday braces against it? The doubt that befall me occasionally, can only strengthen my intention to support the Friday of being against. "
After her retirement as editor Daniela Dahn said the further development of Friday since 2009:
"I wanted to claim to provide counter-information, do not give up and keep the analytical and intellectual substance. Also, I did not want to see limited to scatter, lifestyle, celebrities of the culture industry or even tabloid stories the new part everyday. They should be supplemented by, for example more stories from the academic and producing world of work, stories of survival, which tell how the economy sparks into the everyday life of ordinary people. I thought it was too early that Friday has given up the bridge between East and West ( Europe ). In short, over time, our ideas about the identity of the newspaper have removed to my regret. "