Kurier

Kurier was founded as Wiener Kurier by the United States Forces in Austria (USFA) in 1945, during the Allied occupation after World War II. In 1954 the paper was acquired and re-established by Ludwig Polsterer as Neuer Kurier (New Kurier).{{cite web|title=European News Resources|url=http://guides.nyu.edu/content.php?pid=74313&sid=704214|work=NYU Libraries|access-date=24 January 2015|archive-date=28 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128112921/http://guides.nyu.edu/content.php?pid=74313&sid=704214|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Press freedom and pluralism in Europe|url=http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/File:download,id=724/9781841502434.251.pdf|work=Intellect Books|access-date=6 October 2013|author=Martina Thiele|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190824/http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/File:download,id=724/9781841502434.251.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=The press in Austria|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4373749.stm|access-date=1 January 2015|work=BBC|date=10 November 2005}}

Funke Mediengruppe holds 49% of the paper.{{cite web|title=Communications Report 2005|url=https://www.rtr.at/en/komp/KBericht2005/3847_CommReport_2005_E.PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101180315/https://www.rtr.at/en/komp/KBericht2005/3847_CommReport_2005_E.PDF|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 January 2015|work=Rundfunk and Telekom Regulierungs GmbH|access-date=1 January 2015|format=Report}} The company also partly owns Kronen Zeitung.{{cite web|title=Media Markets: Austria Country Overview|url=http://oldtelecoms.kondrashov.ru/world/austria.html|publisher=Russian Telecom|access-date=1 January 2015|date=August 2004}} The publisher of Kurier is Kurier-Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH. Kurier is based in Vienna.

Kurier was the eighteenth largest newspaper worldwide with a circulation of 443,000 copies in the late 1980s.{{cite book|author=Franz Horner|editor=Volkmar Lauber|title=Contemporary Austrian Politics|date=1996|publisher=Westview Press|location=Boulder, CO|page=223|isbn=978-0367159504|chapter=Agencies of Socialization}} It was the third best-selling Austrian newspaper in 1993 with a circulation of 390,000 copies.{{cite book|editor=Eric Solsten|title=Austria: A Country Study|date=1994|publisher=GPO for the Library of Congress|location=Washington|url=http://countrystudies.us/austria/127.htm|access-date=23 March 2015}}

Kurier sold 263,000 copies in 2001.{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}} It was the third best selling Austrian newspaper in 2002 with a circulation of 252,000 copies.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=8 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}} The daily had a circulation of 254,000 copies in 2004.{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}} Its circulation in 2005 was 172,000 copies. The 2007 circulation of the paper was 169,481 copies. The paper sold 158,469 copies in 2011.{{cite book|author=Paul C. Murschetz|title=State Aid for Newspapers: Theories, Cases, Actions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6-9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134|date=25 January 2014|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-35691-9|page=135}} The circulation of the paper was 385,000 copies in 2013.{{cite web|title=Austria 2013|url=http://www.wptdatabase.org/reports/2013/austria#wpt-report-chapter-3|work=WAN IFRA|access-date=25 February 2015}}

• Hans Dichand, 1955–1958
• Hugo Portisch, 1958–1967
• Eberhard Strohal, 1967–1973
• Hubert Feichtlbauer, 1973–1975
• Gerd Bacher, 12 October 1975 – 4 November 1975
• Karl Löbl, 1975–1979
• Gerd Leitgeb, 1979–1986
• Günter Wessig, 1986–1988
• Franz Ferdinand Wolf, 1988–1993
• Peter Rabl, 1993–2005
• Christoph Kotanko, 2005 – 31 July 2010
• Helmut Brandstätter, 2010–2018; 2013
• Martina Salomon, since 1 October 2018

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