Berliner_Morgenpost

<i>Berliner Morgenpost</i>

Berliner Morgenpost

German newspaper

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapers.

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History and profile

Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959. It was sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013.[1] The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers[2] The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann.[3]

It was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.[4]

Editor-in-chiefs

  • 1952–1953: Wilhelm Schulze
  • 1953–1959: Helmut Meyer-Dietrich
  • 1960–1972: Heinz Köster
  • 1973–1976:Walter Brückmann
  • 1976–1978: Hans-Werner Marquardt
  • 1978–1981: Wolfgang Kryszohn
  • 1981–1987: Johannes Otto
  • 1988–1996: Bruno Waltert
  • 1996–1999: Peter Philipps
  • 1999–2002::Herbert Wessels
  • 2002: Wolfram Weimer
  • 2003–2004: Jan-Eric Peters
  • 2004–2018: Carsten Erdmann
  • 2018–present: Christine Richter

References

  1. [1]
    Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. [2]
    Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
  3. [3]
    Berliner Morgenpost Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine at axelspringer.de
  4. [4]
    "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
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