Südkurier
The Südkurier is a regional daily newspaper for the regions of north-western Lake Constance, Upper Rhine and the Black Forest is located in Konstanz. The sheet appears with a circulation of 128 052 copies six times a week in the Berliner format ( since March 1, 2010 and before that in the Rhenish format). Predecessor of Südkurier was the Constance newspaper.
The History
John Weyl ( born August 28, 1904 in Kiel, † September 4, 1989 in Konstanz ), the former head of the Central Office in Ullsteinhaus magazine publisher, received in 1945 by the French occupying power a license and founded in Constance, with Hugo Eckener, the Südkurier and as a book publisher the Südverlag. Weyl was thus also the first editor of the Southern Mail. On September 8, 1945, the first edition appeared. Initially released only one, then two editions per week. The newspaper had initially only four pages because the French occupation forces allotted little paper.
It was only in November 1953, the newspaper out daily. Since 1945, new issues were constantly established until the present distribution area has been reached.
In 1970, publisher John Weyl also managing partner of Südkurier GmbH, Südverlag GmbH, the company for publishing rights mbH, Managing Director of Printing and Publishing Company GmbH and the University of Konstanz Verlag GmbH, all in Konstanz. He was also Presiding of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers.
1980 bought the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck 25 percent of the shares of the family business. Since 1987, the Südkurier GmbH is also active in private local radio. In 1990, the remaining shares were sold to Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Until then, the Südkurier had its headquarters in the old town of Constance at the market place and at the fish market.
1990, addressed the Südkurier in Constance commercial and industrial area Oberlohn north of the city a new printing, and in 1993 he moved into a new building in the industrial area Oberlohn. The city desk was a few years later moved back into a building in the old town of Constance (Am Fish Market, near the former editorial office). From the regional newspaper since created a media and services company that manufactures besides dailies also display music, audience publications such as the Lake Constance vacation newspaper and many other printed products.
In 1996, the media company 's activities as Internet service providers and content providers with the online service SKOL.de (abbr. for SÜDKURIER OnLine ). This culminated in 2000 in the foundation of a new subsidiary, the media favorites GmbH, which was henceforth to expand SKOL.de the regional portal. In addition, the media favorites GmbH started in 2001, the cross-media print magazine SKOL, which was set in the general media crisis back in 2002. What remained was only the online service, which was renamed in 2004 www.suedkurier.de to demonstrate more close to the newspaper. On 1 July 2008, the media company took over the majority of the ka -news GmbH, which produces the Karlsruhe online daily ka -news.
In addition, the media company offers logistics services, such as newspaper and flyer distribution to mail delivery ( arriva ) and telephony. Apart from the daily output of 384,000 Südkurier advertising journals, newspapers 1.3 million, 6.3 million brochures and 180,000 letters a week are also distributed in twelve counties and created 2.3 million printed products. The company employs 650 full-time employees, some 1,000 freelancers and 2000 newspaper carrier.
In 2011, the newspaper received the Local Journalism Prize of the Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung for their relaunch concept that stands on the graphical representation of messages in the local newspaper.
On 21 November 2011, the acquisition of 51 percent stake in the Südkurier media house by the media Pressedruck was announced. The end of 2013 took over press print the remaining shares of the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck.
Südkurier Group
Currently, the Südkurier is produced in five specialist editorial in Konstanz headquarters and 19 local offices. He appears in 16 different local expenditure in the regions of Lake Constance, the Black Forest and Upper Rhine that also include news from Switzerland and Austria. The daily paid circulation is 128,052 copies. To Südkurier Group also includes the printing Konstanz GmbH and the daily newspaper Alb- Bote. Entrepreneurs and business leaders were also the regional business newspaper PRO: Subscribe FIT, the third Thursday of every published until the end of 2008 a month. Other publications are the three times appearing in Lake Constance vacation newspaper with their online presence and the monthly magazine health.
Editors
The Südkurier is a so-called Journalistic Unit: The department politics, sports, business, culture, computer ( CLICK! ) and the supplement editors and online editors are based in Konstanz. In Konstanz, therefore, the general part (sheath ) is produced. For the respective home part 19 local editors provide in the distribution area. The local sites are routed from the external editors to Constance, where the entire newspaper is printed. Due to the large distribution area, it is also the task of the local editors to report on local cultural, sports and business events. The ads are also managed locally in the local offices.
Local offices and offices of Südkurier there are in the following cities: Bad Sackingen, Blumberg, Bonn village, Donaueschingen, Friedrichshafen, Furtwangen, Konstanz, Mark Village, Meßkirch, Pfullendorf, Radolfzell, Rheinfelden, Singing, St. Georgen, Stockach, Triberg, Überlingen, Villingen- Schwenningen and Waldshut -Tiengen.
At the headquarters in Konstanz work 30 editors in the external editorial is approximately 70 There are also five news agencies, 15 correspondents from Cape Town to Moscow, and over 1000 freelancers. Their journalistic qualification is very different. This includes club members or government employees. Their texts are edited by the editorial staff before publication, however journalistically. From 1 July 2005 to January 31, 2010 was Thomas Satinsky ( born June 7, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is the chief editor of the Southern Mail. He replaced Werner Black Forest, who stood at the head of the editorial board since 1994. From February to June 2010, the post of chief editor was provisionally recognized by Stefan Lutz. In June 2010, André Uzulis chief editor, however - was replaced on 1 October 2010 again by Stefan Lutz - even during his probationary period.