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Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Weekly |
Founder |
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Founded | 1992 |
First issue | October 1992 |
Company | VGN |
Country | Austria |
Based in | Vienna |
Language | German |
Website | News |
News is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna, Austria. The weekly is the major news magazine in the country [1] and has been in circulation since October 1992.
News magazine was established by Helmut and Wolfgang Fellner and was first published in October 1992. [2] [3] [4] The Verlagsgruppe News is the publisher of the magazine which is published weekly. [5] [6] The Fellner brothers sold the some shares of the company to Gruner + Jahr, [7] [8] a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. [9] In 2016 Gruner + Jahr sold its shares to the Verlagsgruppe News, known as VGN. [10]
News covers entertainment and lifestyle topics [11] as well as news on current affairs, politics and culture. [12]
In the 1990s Senta Ziegler served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. [13] Until 2008 Andreas Weber was the editor-in-chief of the weekly. [5] Then Atha Athanasiadis served as the editor-in-chief of the News magazine from 2008 to February 2010. [14] As of 2010 the editor-in-chief of the magazine was Peter Pelinka who was appointed to the post in February that year. [15] Corinna Milborn and Silvia Meister were the deputy editors of the weekly. [15]
News sold more than 200,000 copies in 1993. [4] The market share of the magazine was 19.3% in 2000. [16] The magazine had a circulation of 254,000 copies in 2003. [6] Its readership in 2005 was about 14%, making it the first in its category. [17] In 2007 the magazine sold 285,000 copies. [18]
For the first half of 2008 the magazine had a circulation of 125,710 copies. [19] It was the third best-selling magazine in the country in 2008. [20] News sold 215,000 copies in 2010. [21] In 2012 its circulation was 125.751 copies, [7] and it was 135,875 copies in the first half of 2013. [12]
In June 2005, News was fined by an Austrian court following its publication of Finance Minister Karl Heinz Grasser's photos kissing Fiona Swarovski, an heiress of the Swarovski crystal dynasty. [22]