News_(newspaper)

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News (newspaper)

Swiss German-language free daily newspaper

For other newspapers with related names, see News (disambiguation).

News was a Swiss German-language free daily newspaper, published by NP News Print AG between 2007 and 2009.

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Published in tabloid format, it had regional editions for Zurich, Bern, and Basel as well the middle land of the Swiss plateau.

History and operations

The newspaper was launched on 5 December 2007.[1] Like other Swiss commuter newspapers, it was available in boxes at main transfer points of the public transport system of trains, trams and buses. The newspaper competed with other German-language, free, Swiss newspapers, including .ch, 20 Minuten and heute. It is claimed[who?] that it had a circulation of 334,000.

The editions for Bern and Basel ceased publication on 28 August 2009, the Zurich edition on 4 December 2009.[1]

Publisher

NP News Print AG, a joint effort of Tamedia (Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung) and Basler Zeitung Medien, also publishes the daily Basler Zeitung and the free daily Baslerstab.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    [dead link] [clarification needed] "Pendlerzeitung News wird eingestellt" (in German). Tamedia. 4 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  • newsprint.ch (defunct pre-August 2012), former official website of the newspaper
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