Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ( KStA, also: Kölner Stadt Anzeiger ) is the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in the Cologne area. This appears every working day, regional leaf belongs to the group of M. DuMont. The former rival newspaper Cologne Rundschau was taken over in 1999, but retained an independent editorial under the publisher Helmut Heinen. The reported together with the Cologne Rundschau daily circulation of 303 558 copies.

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger appears in the so-called Berliner format with a sheet size of 315 times 470 millimeters. He appears in local editions for Bonn, Euskirchen, Leverkusen ( Leverkusen as indicator ), Cologne, Rhein- Erft, Upper Mount (as Oberbergischer Gazette ), Rhein- Berg and Rhein-Sieg (as Rhein-Sieg- Gazette ). From 1 October 2004 until the end of 2006 appeared Monday to Friday, in addition to the classic Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger also the smaller compact shape, direct, in tabloid format. This newspaper was mainly aimed at a younger target group, and put other priorities as the parent sheet. Since December 2010 there is a special edition for the iPad tablet computer, in December 2011, for those with the Android operating system.

• 4.1 2013
• 4.2 2011
• 4.3 2010
• 4.4 2003

Structure of the paper

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger includes a week ( except on Saturdays / Sundays) usually about 32 to 36 pages. The first book of the newspaper is the main part in politics, freedom of expression, as well as the country / region page, it then follows as the second of the business section with a side panorama, followed by sport, which shares with the ministries media and culture a common book.

The fourth part are the local news from Cologne, Tuesdays and Thursdays closes the last column " Across Cologne " to, which reports on what is happening in the individual districts. The selection of topics in the local section is colorful ranging and aimed at all audiences. Thursdays also appears under the heading " Young Times", a single page by and for young adults. The fifth part contains, depending on the issue, the differing local news from the different areas.

Since 2006, the Stadt-Anzeiger also contains the magazine in tabloid format with entertainment, help, cinema and television. It has 16 weekdays, in the weekend edition 32 pages. On Thursdays there is a 16- page supplement with all the regional event dates the next seven days. Every Friday is the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger in the weekly magazine prism that contains the TV program for the following week. The weekend edition of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger also has a comprehensive Classifieds section. He begins with two editorial pages about " Car / Motor ".

History

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger first appeared in an edition of 30,000 copies on 14 November 1876 as regional advertising supplement to the nationally appearing Cologne Gazette and was also supplied as a free direct mail to households Cologne. Strategically was this initially planned only as a supplementary sheet publication, a response to the success of a previously established in the year, mainly consisting of local advertisements General-Anzeiger of Cologne Aachen newspaper publisher Joseph La Ruelle, which ceased publication due to the pressure of competition, however, still in 1876 had (this is not to be confused with the resulting much later Bonner General-Anzeiger ).

Towards the end of the Second World War both newspapers had to cease publication; the Cologne newspaper disappeared forever.

In October 1949, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger appeared again. After fierce competition, it developed until the late 1950s, the leading newspaper in the Cologne region. Since 1960, Alfred Neven DuMont is the sole publisher of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger. Since 1962, the name of the Cologne Gazette for reasons of tradition appears as a subtitle of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger.

Chief editor of the leaf is Peter Pauls. His representative is Lutz Feierabend.

In March 2014, the Journal announced to merge four local offices for reasons of cost with the Cologne Rundschau. Affected are the editors of the districts of Rhein -Erft, Rhein- Berg, Rhein-Sieg and Euskirchen / Eifel; total of thirty editorial jobs would be eliminated. In addition, it is intended to outsource the remaining 67 local editors in a society without collective bargaining coverage. The cost savings from the restructuring is estimated at 4 million euros.

Known elements

Some elements of the Kölner Stadt -Anzeiger been published continuously over several decades and contributed to formative image of the newspaper at. From 1954 to 2012, the newspaper printed weekly Oskar, the friendly policeman. The slightly rounded police officer with a mustache and a green uniform appeared over 50 years in the form of a short picture story for children. Signatory was Otto Schwalge ( 1921-2012 ).

By Horst Schubert (1922-2008) comes the gloss " Colonius ". Between 1960 and 2008 published the Stadt-Anzeiger almost 11,000 times his observations of daily life in einspaltigem sentence.

Editors since 1989

Support development

The edition of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger reported by the publisher M. DuMont since 1999, together with the Cologne Rundschau. In recent years, the Stadt-Anzeiger has lost much of its support. The joint paid circulation of the two newspapers is 303 558 copies. It is thus a third lower than in 1999.

Development of sold copies

Awards for Journalists and Editors (selection)

2013

• The iPad App of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger was named one of the nine best newspaper apps in the world in October 2013 by the U.S. market research company McPheters & Company. Thus the KStA App is the only German -language application on the winning list. For the ranking of around 11,000 media apps were examined around the world.

2011

• Guardian Prize of the German daily press 2 Price: Andreas Damm and Detlef Schmalenberg the journalists of the Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger " brought relevant and previously unknown details to the collapse of the Cologne city archive to light " Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ( KStA )

2010

• Theodor Wolff Prize Detlef Schmalenberg received the Journalist Award in the category " Local " for the article " The billion - puzzle ", published in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on December 31, 2009.

2003

• Guardian Prize of the German daily press 1st prize for the editors of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger for " research on the Cologne waste incineration scandal"

Online TV " ksta.tv "

In May 2006, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ksta.tv. launched its online TV offering There, the user can watch videos on current events in politics, culture, entertainment and sports. In addition, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger used by the Dutch company " ZoomIn ", which relies on the material of the AP news agency. Meanwhile, cover films from the Reuters news agency on regional issues. In November 2006, the Journal expanded its online TV offering to self-produced local contributions and several of its own video formats. In 2008, the category was " sly " added. The videos produced by Oliver Stones Bach treat Cologne puzzles and special features that are submitted to the part of viewers / users. " Sly " was the first format of ksta.tv, which was also taken up by the local section printed.

Kalaydo.de

Since March 2006, the publishing house of the Cologne city indicator operates jointly with other Rhenish newspaper publishers web advertising portal kalaydo.de. The portal could be established within a short time and, with over 49 million page views ( according to IVW March 2009) among the top 10 of the German e- commerce offerings.

A book for the city

Together with the literature of Cologne hosted the Stadt-Anzeiger since 2003, the action is a book for the city for the promotion of literature and literary understanding in Cologne and the region between the Eifel and Bergischem country. The selected by the initiators in the spring / summer book is the subject of numerous events in the autumn of the year.