NZZ_Mediengruppe

NZZ Mediengruppe

NZZ Mediengruppe

Swiss media company

NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) Mediengruppe (also known as AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung) is a media company which deals with the activities related to the newspaper, magazine, book publishing and television broadcasting in Zürich, Switzerland. The company has products for the German-speaking regions of the country.[1]

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History and profile

NZZ Mediengruppe was established in 1780 with the start of its flagship paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.[2] As of 2014, Veit Dengler was the chief executive officer of the group[3] of which headquarters is in Zürich.[2][4] The company has a liberal stance and does not support collectivism or corporatism.[5]

The group has business activities in the fields of newspaper and magazine publishing, book publishing, and regional radio and television broadcasting.[5] The company also operates online editions of the publications it has.[5]

The newspaper publishing division of the group consists of two companies, NZZ and Free Press Holding AG.[6] In addition to Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the company also owns regional daily newspapers, namely the St. Galler Tagblatt and Neue Luzerner Zeitung.[5] The group owned 74.93% of the St. Galler Tagblatt AG, which publishes St. Galler Tagblatt,[7] via its subsidiary Free Press Holding AG.[8] In May 2014, Free Press Holding AG acquired the company's remaining stake from PubliGroupe.[8] The company involved in the establishment of the joint venture CH Media in 2018.[9]

NZZ Mediengruppe was the owner of the Bund Verlag AG, publisher of the daily newspaper Der Bund, until 2003 when it was sold to the Espace Media Groupe.[10]

NZZ Mediengruppe was the fourth major magazine publisher in Switzerland in terms of circulation in the years of 2005, 2008 and 2012.[11] One of the new additions is NZZ Geschichte, a history magazine, which was launched in Zürich in April 2015.[12]

In relation to book publishing the subsidiary of the company is NZZ Libro.[6] NZZ Film und Fernsehen is another subsidiary of the company which produces television programs.[6]

References

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    "Yearbook 2013. The Quality of the Media" (PDF). Schwabe Publishers. Basel. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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    "Company Overview of AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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    "Business Club 2014 with numerous highlights". Oehen PR. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  4. [4]
    Hugo Bigi (2012). Journalism Education Between Market Dependence and Social Responsibility: An Examination of Trainee Journalists. Bern: Haupt Verlag AG. p. 27. ISBN 978-3-258-07753-6.
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    "Media partners". Swiss International Finance Forum. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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    "Smart advertising – in a wide range of NZZ products" (PDF). NZZ. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  7. [7]
    "When love at first sight endures" (PDF). Circulation Journal: 8. October 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2015.
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    "PubliGroupe sells participation in Freie Presse Holding AG to the NZZ Mediengruppe". PubliGroupe Ltd. Lausanne. 5 May 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  9. [9]
    Heinz Bonfadelli; Werner Meier (2021). "Switzerland: highly concentrated leading news media in austerity and downsizing mode". In Josef Trappel; Tales Tomaz (eds.). The media for democracy monitor 2021. How leading news media survive digital transformation. Vol. 2. Gothenburg: Nordicom. p. 389. doi:10.5167/uzh-205634. ISBN 978-91-88855-42-8.
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    C. Porlezza (2006). "Bashing the Competition, Indulging in Self-Adulation" (PDF). In S Egli von Matt; et al. (eds.). Media Journalism in the Attention Cycle. Problems, Perspectives, Visions. Lugano: Gianpiero Casagrande. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2021.
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    Patrick Yves Badillo; Dominique Bourgeois (2015). "Media Ownership and Concentration in Switzerland". In Eli M. Noam (ed.). Who Owns the World's Media?: Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-19-998723-8.
  12. [12]
    ""NZZ Geschichte" will mit Napoleon die Schweiz erobern". Klein Report (in German). 19 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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