Stuttgarter Zeitung

The Stuttgarter Zeitung ( StZ ) is a daily newspaper with a circulation of around 150,000 copies. The reported together with the Stuttgarter Nachrichten daily circulation of 190 250 copies.

The Stuttgarter Zeitung is a regional newspaper with over a regional claim. This means that the information provided by the national newspapers compete, but at the same time that significant regional and local priorities are set. To meet this requirement, maintains the Stuttgarter Zeitung in regional areas an editorial and a network of correspondents.

The newspaper describes himself as a liberal.

The appearance of the newspaper in 1948, 1978 and 1998 and 2009 carefully changed significantly. Editor in chief since January 1, 2008 Joachim village, the former deputy chief editor of Handelsblatt was.

The seat of the StZ is the press Stuttgart.

History

The history of the Stuttgarter Zeitung began after the Second World War. After the end of the Nazi regime, the old newspapers were not allowed to appear for four years. The StZ sees himself in the tradition of the New Stuttgart Tageblatt, which was set during this time.

The printers and publishers were seized. The western occupying powers awarded to politically guiltless citizens licenses for publishing newspapers and asked them the seized machines. The occupation forces also stayed out that the policy directions were represented.

The Stuttgarter Zeitung was first of three licensees of the Information Control Division moved: Josef Eberle, Karl Ackermann and Henry Bernard. On September 18, 1945, the first edition appeared. After Jump in license carriers, the retiring other music took over, finally stopped beside Erich Schairer, who died in 1956, only Josef Eberle as editor until 1972 at the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

Publishing house

The Stuttgarter Zeitung or her publisher, the Stuttgarter Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, is 100 percent owned media group Süd GmbH (MSG ), which in turn 82 percent of the West German media holding ( SWMH ), the parent company of the newspaper group Stuttgart, as well as to 18 percent of Black Bote GmbH & Co. KG is one. By early 2007, the heirs of Erich Schairer, one of the co-editor of the first postwar years, were involved to 25 percent, these sold their shares on 1 January 2007 at the SWMH. At the SWMH involved " Wurttembergischer Publisher group ", each with 44.36 percent of the media -Union GmbH Ludwigshafen and the rest of the shares are divided eight other shareholders.

The media group is concerned about the South Württemberg Zeitung GmbH among other things, 80 percent of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten. 2002 SWMH participated with 18.75 percent of the Süddeutsche Verlag, Munich (Süddeutsche Zeitung). 29 February 2008 sold their shares of the four shareholders families publisher of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the West German media holding company, so that their share increased this to 81.25 percent.

Awards

The editors of the Stuttgarter Zeitung has been awarded a number of major journalism awards. In recent times, both donated by the shareholders of the Süddeutsche Verlag Herbert Riehl -Heyse- Award 2005 received the political correspondent for the Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stefan Geiger, bound for his essay property. But for what it committed? and the Theodor Wolff Prize in 2006 for his essay this time. " No Freedom without equality - and vice versa." Michael Ohnewald, reporters in the regional editors, was awarded the 2003 Theodor Wolff Prize in the category of Local and arrived at the Guardian Award of the German daily press in 2006 to second place. The layout of the StZ was awarded between 2003 and 2008 annually in different categories with the European Newspaper Award. At the 11th European Newspaper Award, it was selected by the jury for the European Regional Newspaper of the Year.

Erich Schairer price

In memory of Erich Schairer, the politically committed journalist, editor of the Sunday newspaper and later editor of the Stuttgarter Zeitung, e annually by the Erich Schairer journalists Help V. and the Stuttgarter Zeitung will be awarded a prize for young journalists.

Criticism

LobbyControl criticized that the newspaper - as well as the Stuttgarter Nachrichten - vehemently committed to the controversial major project Stuttgart 21. That is owing to the fact that they belong to the West German media holding company, which in turn is financially completely dependent on the Landesbank Baden- Württemberg. Especially this prick out a published on 1 September 2010 article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

Trivia

On 27 January 2012, the online editorial team of the Stuttgart newspaper ran an embarrassing mishap. During the test run of a technical change a blind text was posted online, entitled Merkel resigns wore. For a quarter of an hour the fictional content of the message was publicly available. The editor later apologized for the mistake.