FACTS (newspaper)
Facts was 1995-2007 a weekly Swiss news magazine of the publisher Tamedia.
Print medium
Facts appeared from April 1995 and was based initially on the German news magazine Focus. The magazine dealt mainly with current events, supplemented by a few reports. The main competitors in the Swiss political and business magazine market was the world week and the weekly newspaper and business journals balance sheet and cash. 2001 Facts wrote the first time in the black.
On 20 June 2007, the Board of Directors of Tamedia announced to discontinue the magazine for economic reasons. Falling ads revenue and start-ups such as the NZZ am Sonntag (2002 ) and especially free newspapers like 20 minutes would the magazine prepare economic problems. The high fixed costs of a news magazine stood opposite permanently insufficient advertising revenues. On 28 June 2007 Facts appeared after about twelve years ago for the last time. Facts about 73,000 copies sold last, reaching 439,000 readers in German-speaking Switzerland, which at that time numbered about 4.8 million inhabitants.
Content
Regular columns were: cover story, Switzerland, business, science, life ( Culture & Society ), international and sports. "The last word" had each of the cabaret artist Viktor Giacobbo later the writer Linus Reichlin wrote regular columns.
Special Issues
Trimmings
In the years 1999 to 2004 included in the expenditure side dishes, including popular guides of the house Tamedia.
In the years 2005 and 2006, the annual output of Her money from Credit Suisse were offered as a side dish.
Online medium
In addition to the print medium an online edition was offered on facts.ch from August 1996. At the beginning of the online medium had the name F @ CTS, after a relaunch of the Berne Agency Nothing Medialab in November 2001, it was called FACTS interactive. The new website was a supplement to the journal, the articles have been edited for the online medium.
In September 2007, Tamedia launched at the web address of the selected news magazine, a news portal based on the term Web 2.0 as Facts 2.0. It aggregated content from various news sources and presented them in the form of teasers. The portal was sold to the company Information Architects in December 2008.
Editors in chief
- Jürg Wildberger (1995-1998)
- René Lüchinger (1998-2000)
- Hannes Britschgi (2001-2003)
- Stefan Barmettler (2003-2005)