Volksstimme (Saxony-Anhalt)

The voice of the people is a daily newspaper for the northern and central Saxony -Anhalt, with headquarters in Magdeburg. They reached a paid circulation of 183 801 copies. Editor in chief since October 1, 2011 Alois Kösters.

The newspaper is available with its 18 local editions in the north and in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt and is based in their area of ​​distribution at the borders of the former district of Magdeburg. In the south of Saxony-Anhalt, on the territory of the former district hall, which means German newspaper is published. The People's Voice is published as a regional daily newspaper in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt monopolist. Only in the Altmark she has with the Altmark newspaper founded in 1990, a competitor in the regional newspaper market.

The newspaper is published six times a week, working day in the morning, including Saturdays, in the Rhenish format. Nationwide, distributed and cited is the local edition of the state capital, the Magdeburg voice of the people who a few years further led the traditional name of the former bourgeois-liberal newspaper in Magdeburg subtitles.

History

The daily voice of the people, founded in 1890, then social democratic oriented reached before the First World War a circulation of 34,000 copies and was banned in 1933 by the Nazis. Issued from August 1947 as a newspaper of the SED for Magdeburg, it was since 1952 organ of the SED district leadership Magdeburg. After the editorial renounced her editor on January 19, 1990, it is written in-house. A transfer of ownership to the employees was not made. The SPD as a former owner gave up her claim ownership, instead, she took an interest in the Dresden Saxon newspaper.

The THA were in 1991, 13 bids for the privatization and acquisition of Magdeburg in former press house of Fritz Faber resident voice of the people in front, where was until 1944 the Magdeburg newspaper, the oldest continuously published newspaper in Germany, founded in the 17th century produced. The voice of the people appears since at the Magdeburg printing and publishing house GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the well-known for their program and tabloids leaves Bauer Publishing Group Hamburg, now Bauer Media Group. The print shop is located in the mid- 1990s and the editorial department since 1998, a few kilometers north of Magdeburg in Barleben district flare.

Circulation Statistic

In the fourth quarter of 2012 the average circulation was IVW at 189 948 copies. These are 3,667 copies per issue less ( -1.89 %) than in the same quarter last year. The number of subscribers increased within a year by 3875 to an average of 176 981 subscribers per issue from ( -2.14 %); so based around 93.17 % of the readers the newspaper subscription.

Average number of common issues in Quarterly

Average number of copies sold in the quarter by subscription

Local Issues

  • Salzwedel People's Voice
  • Klötzer People's Voice
  • Gardelegener People's Voice
  • Havelberger People's Voice
  • Osterburger People's Voice
  • Stendaler People's Voice
  • Genthiner People's Voice
  • Magdeburg People's Voice
  • Haldensleber People's Voice
  • Wolmirstedter People's Voice
  • Oschersleber People's Voice
  • Wanzleben People's Voice
  • Staßfurter People's Voice
  • Schönebecker People's Voice
  • Zerbst People's Voice
  • Halberstadt People's Voice
  • Harzer People's Voice, Wernigerode
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