Oberösterreichische Nachrichten

The Journal of Upper Austrian News is a national subscription daily newspaper based in Linz.

History

The newspaper was founded on 11 June 1945 by the American occupation forces, but was already four months later, independently on 8 October 1945. From six shareholders of the later National President Alfred Maleta emerged as the sole owner. On 1 January 1954, the newspaper merged with the appearing since 1865 daily mail. Held at the company now formed the descendants of the former Linzer printer family Wimmer 74% ( it was previously the daily mail out ), Alfred Maleta held 26%, however, which he sold in 1986. After that led Rudolf Andreas Cuturi, a descendant of the company founder Josef Wimmer, the newspaper as editor. Chief editor of the OÖN is Gerald Mandlbauer, his deputies are Wolfgang Braun and Dietmar Mascher.

Information to the newspaper

The newspaper has a strong regional dimension and appears mainly in five books (politics, economy, sports, culture, country and people ( with the local section )), where the local section varies in six different regions of Upper Austria. So there is Linz, Wels, Steyr, the Salzkammergut region, Upper Austria and the Innviertel own local editions in which from Monday to Friday to three to six pages of local information is offered.

According to the Austrian Media Analysis 2004, the Upper Austrian News in Austria have 371,000 readers. This corresponds to a related to all of Austria visibility of 5.5 %. The print edition According to the Austrian support control ( OAK ) is located at 138 746 copies. Of these, 99 959 copies are sold directly, further 4,300 in the wholesale. About 21,000 copies are distributed free of charge, of which about 6,000 and 14,000 more than trial subscription unaddressed. The OON is a cooperative of the Austria Press Agency.

First appeared a combination OÖN with Braunau am Inn or waiting Rieder People's Daily and People's Daily Schärdinger On January 15, 2009. This is to compensate for the loss of starting in January 2009, only Sundays issued Oberösterreichischen Rundschau December 2008. For this reason, the print run will now be more than 220,000 copies on Thursdays, not 140,000 as on the other days.