Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
The Last News d' Alsace ( DNA) ( Alsatian Latest News ) is a French and until March 2012 also German -language daily newspaper from Strasbourg. The DNA is the leading newspaper of Alsace and one of the largest newspapers in France.
The newspaper was founded in 1877 by the publisher and printer Heinrich Ludwig Kayser from Bruchmachtersen ( now part Salzgitter ) as Strasbourg Latest News. The then distributed free of charge zero number appeared on 17 November, the first issue on 1 December 1877. Though then in Strasbourg already several daily newspapers published ( Strasbourg newspaper, Strasbourg messenger and others) Latest news quickly became a great success were. The paper was aimed at a wide readership, and introduced as the first newspaper of Alsace classifieds for businesses and private individuals.
Since the beginning of 1878, Latest news daily published the number of their subscribers within and outside the City of Strasbourg, an important for the media history research data source against which the spread of the newspaper can be accurately traced. Already on December 8, 1877 Latest news had 1000 subscribers, 1880, there were already 10,000. The city population adopted the new newspaper faster than the residents of the surrounding rural areas. Only after 16 months, in April 1879 exceeded the number of subscribers outside Strasbourg the customer within the city. The importance of the newspaper also came in the subtitle expressed: General-Anzeiger for Alsace- Lorraine, the widespread newspaper in southwest Germany.
The newspaper cites since the establishment of the bilingual tradition of Alsace and was among the supporters of Franco-German reconciliation after World War II. Expression of this cross-border horizon was the existence of a daily German-language edition of DNA.
The German and bilingual edition with a blue title had to be discontinued in March 2012 due to the repressive French language policy, which does not allow to publish sports news, youth pages, or family announcements in German.
The French edition, which appears with a red title, has a circulation of 180,000 copies ( 2011).
The DNA covered with 26 local editions of the entire Alsace. It is published by France Est Médias and employs 900 employees, including 200 professional journalists. Editor in chief Dominique Young.