NZZ Mediengruppe

NZZ Mediengruppe

Industry	Media
Founded	1780; 245 years ago (1780)
Headquarters	Zürich
Key people	Felix Graf (CEO)
Products	Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ am Sonntag Swiss Economic Forum Zurich Film Festival CH Media
Website	www.nzzmediengruppe.ch

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]

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

1. "Yearbook 2013. The Quality of the Media" (PDF). Schwabe Publishers. Basel. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
2. "Company Overview of AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
3. "Business Club 2014 with numerous highlights". Oehen PR. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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.
5. "Media partners". Swiss International Finance Forum. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
6. "Smart advertising – in a wide range of NZZ products" (PDF). NZZ. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
7. "When love at first sight endures" (PDF). Circulation Journal: 8. October 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2015.
8. "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. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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. ""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.

External links

• Official website
• Media related to NZZ-Mediengruppe at Wikimedia Commons