Saarbrücker Zeitung

Saarbrücker Zeitung

Type	Regional daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Rheinische Post Mediengruppe (56.1 %) Gesellschaft für staatsbürgerliche Bildung Saar mbH (26 %)[1]
Founder(s)	Bernhard and Gottfried Hofer
Publisher	Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei
Editor-in-chief	Peter Stefan Herbst
Founded	1761; 264 years ago (1761)
Language	German
Headquarters	Saarbrücken, Germany
Circulation	128,174 (IVW Q4/2017)
Sister newspapers	Pfälzischer Merkur [de] Trierischer Volksfreund [de]
Website	saarbruecker-zeitung.de

The Saarbrücker Zeitung (SZ) is a daily (except Sundays) newspaper published in Saarland, Germany.

History and profile

It was first published as a weekly journal in 1761[2] under the title Nassau-Saarbrückisches Wochenblatt (Nassau-Saarbrücken Weekly). After several changes in name and frequency, it appeared since 1861 under its current title. After the Saar Treaty in 1956, the Saarland state became its owner. It was privatized in 1969;[1] the paper's major owner (56.1%) was the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Rheinische Post Mediengruppe became the majority owner in 2013.

In 2001, Saarbrücker Zeitung received the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Prize for Local Journalism.

Saarbrücker Zeitung had a circulation of 128,174 copies in 2017.[3]

References

1. "Wie die Stiftung Demokratie Saarland entstanden ist" Archived 2011-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, Stiftung Demokratie Saarland [de] (in German)
2. "The World of Business: From Valuable Brands and Games Directors Play to Bail-Outs and Bad Boys". The Economist. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
3. Saarbrücker Zeitung (IVW Q4/2017)