Netzeitung

{{short description|German online newspaper}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox newspaper

|name = Netzeitung

|image =

|caption =

|type = Online newspaper

|foundation = 2000

|owners = M. DuMont Schauberg

|language = German

|headquarters = Berlin

|editor = Domenika Ahlrichs

|website = [http://www.netzeitung.de www.netzeitung.de]

}}

Netzeitung was a German online newspaper produced in Berlin from 2000 to 2009. On 4 January 2010 netzeitung.de had been converted into an automated portal displaying contents from nachrichten.de (an online news portal operated by Tomorrow Focus).

Netzeitung had claimed to be the first German newspaper that was completely online, and to have been the most cited news source in Germany in 2005. The paper went online in November 2000 and was started by the same company that publishes the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen.{{cite magazine

| last = Sautter

| first = Ursula

| title = News on the Net: Norwegian online journal Nettavisen is giving print newspapers a run for their money

| magazine = Time

| date = 2001-01-19

| url = http://www.time.com/time/europe/digital/sotw/2001/01/nettavisen.html

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010127184500/http://www.time.com/time/europe/digital/sotw/2001/01/nettavisen.html

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 27 January 2001

| accessdate = 2009-05-06}}

In 2006, the paper employed some 60 journalists and reached, according to Michael Maier, then the chief editor, some 1.2 million households per month and was to earn €8 million.{{cite news

| last = Jarvis

| first = Jeff

| title = An online revolution that is by and for 'das volk'

| work = The Guardian

| date = 2006-09-18

| url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/sep/18/pressandpublishing.newmedia

| accessdate = 2009-05-06}} According to Google Ad Planner, the site ranked #25 in Germany in monthly visitors of news sites.{{cite web

|last = Schröder

|first = Jens

|title = Die deutsche Top 50 der Nachrichten-Sites

|work = Meedia

|date = 2009-04-20

|url = http://meedia.de/nc/details/article/die-deutsche-top-50-der-nachrichten-sites_100019596.html

|accessdate = 2009-05-06

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090502131932/http://meedia.de/nc/details/article/die-deutsche-top-50-der-nachrichten-sites_100019596.html

|archivedate = 2 May 2009

}}

Chief editor was Domenika Ahlrichs (2007–2009). After 2007 the paper was owned by a subsidiary of the Mecom Group, which in January 2009 sold its German division to M. DuMont Schauberg.{{cite press release

|title = M. DuMont Schauberg übernimmt Mecom-Aktivitäten

|publisher = M. DuMont Schauberg

|date = 2009-01-13

|url = http://www.dumont.de/dumont/de/101663/presse

|accessdate = 2009-05-06

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090122224325/http://dumont.de/dumont/de/101663/presse

|archivedate = 22 January 2009

}}