Neue Zürcher Zeitung

{{Infobox newspaper

| logo = Neue_Zürcher_Zeitung.svg

| image = File:NZZ-newspaper-cover.jpg

| caption =

| alt =

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Swiss

| owners = NZZ Mediengruppe

| founder = Salomon Gessner

| president = Felix Graf

| editor =

| chiefeditor = Eric Gujer

| assoceditor =

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1780|01|12|df=yes}}

| political = Classical liberalism
Conservatism
Liberal democracy (per the paper's official founding guidelines and statute)

| language = German

| headquarters = Zürich

| publishing_country = Switzerland

| circulation = 108,709
(including e-paper, 2014)

| sister newspapers =

| ISSN = 0376-6829

| oclc = 698049952

| website = [https://www.nzz.ch nzz.ch] (in German)

| readership = 0.253 Mio.

}}

File:Sechseläutenplatz - NZZ - Utoquai Zürich 2015-06-21 17-16-18.JPG]]

The {{Lang|de|Neue Zürcher Zeitung}} (NZZ; "New Journal of Zurich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zurich.{{Historical Dictionary of Switzerland|048585|Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)|author=Maissen, Thomas|date=2015-04-10}} The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the Swiss-German newspaper of record, and for detailed reports on international affairs.Elizabeth Wiskemann. (1959). A great swiss newspaper: the story of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Oxford University Press. {{ASIN|B00AVPAYW8}}{{cite book |last=Fossedal |first=Gregory |author-link=Gregory Fossedal |year=2018 |title=Direct Democracy in Switzerland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvdKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT352 |location=UK |publisher=Routledge |page=352 |isbn=978-14128-0505-6}}

History and profile

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One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung,{{cite book|author=Hugo Bigi|title=Journalism Education Between Market Dependence and Social Responsibility: An Examination of Trainee Journalists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojPlRFHuvoYC&pg=PA25|year=2012|publisher=Haupt Verlag AG|isbn=978-3-258-07753-6|page=25}} edited by the Swiss painter and poet Salomon Gessner, on 12 January 1780.{{cite news|title=The press in Switzerland|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3703425.stm|access-date=17 January 2015|work=BBC|date=17 May 2004}} It was renamed {{Lang|de|Neue Zürcher Zeitung}} in 1821.

According to Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, many prestige German language newspapers followed its example because it set "standards through an objective, in-depth treatment of subject matter, eloquent commentary, an extensive section on entertainment, and one on advertising."Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, eds. (1998). Modern Germany: And Encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871–1990 2:786.

Aside from the switch from its blackletter typeface in 1946, the newspaper has changed little since the 1930s. Only in 2005 did it add color pictures, much later than most mainstream papers. The emphasis is on international news, business, finance, and high culture. Features and lifestyle stories are kept to a minimum.

Historically, the newspaper has been politically positioned close to the liberal Free Democratic Party of Switzerland since its early period.{{cite book|author=Ariane Knüsel|title=Framing China: Media Images and Political Debates in Britain, the USA and Switzerland, 1900–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-So1iWxAjMC&pg=PT32|date=1 September 2012|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-6178-4|page=32}} The paper's official statutes and guidelines declare it to have a "liberal democratic foundation".{{Cite web |title=Statuten der Aktiengesellschaft für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung |lang=de |url=https://unternehmen.nzz.ch/assets/lbwp-cdn/nzz-mediengruppe-v2/files/1617695115/statuten_nzz.pdf |date=9 April 2011 |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=NZZ Company }} Accordingly, it has traditionally adopted a free-market liberal and centre-right orientation.{{cite news|url=http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/source-information/23821-neue-zuercher-zeitung|title=Neue Zuercher Zeitung|work=Press Europ}} However, in 2014, Markus Somm (formerly an editor at the Basler Zeitung), a more pronounced right-wing journalist, was slated to became editor-in-chief, leading to fears of a rightward shift by staff and resulting in internal protest. The internal upheaval eventually lead to Somm not taking on his role. {{Cite web |date=December 15, 2014 |title=Move to the right stirs uproar at staid Swiss newspaper |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL6N0TZ338/ |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=Reuters}} However, the appointment of Eric Gujer as editor-in-chief in 2015 and René Scheu as head of the feature section in 2016, as well as almost half of all contributing editors leaving the newspaper between 2015 and December 2017, marked a noticeable shift to the right, according to critics.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zeit.de/2017/52/neue-zuercher-zeitung-christoph-blocher-rechtsruck|title="Neue Zürcher Zeitung": Druck von rechts|author1=Matthias Daum|date=16 December 2017|work=Die Zeit|access-date=10 July 2019|author2=Caspar Shaller|language=de-DE|issn=0044-2070}}{{Cite web |last=NDR |title=NZZ: Warum das Blatt sich wendet |url=https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/zapp/NZZ-Warum-Blatt-sich-wendet,nzz126.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.ndr.de |language=de}}

Circulation

The circulation of {{Lang|de|Neue Zürcher Zeitung}} was 18,100 copies in 1910. It rose to 47,500 copies in 1930 and 66,600 copies in 1950.

In 1997, the {{Lang|de|Neue Zürcher Zeitung}} had a circulation of 162,330 copies.{{cite journal|author=Sibylle Hardmeier|title=Political Poll Reporting in Swiss Print Media|journal=International Journal of Public Opinion Research|date=1999|volume=11|issue=3|url=http://ijpor.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3/257.full.pdf|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171018050037/https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/article-abstract/11/3/257/834102/POLITICAL-POLL-REPORTING-IN-SWISS-PRINT-MEDIA?redirectedFrom=PDF|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 October 2017}} Its circulation was 169,000 copies in 2000.{{cite news|title=Top 100 dailies 2000|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/49276/|access-date=2 March 2015|work=campaign|date=16 November 2001}} The circulation of the paper was 166,000 copies in 2003.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}} The 2006 circulation of the paper was 146,729 copies.{{cite journal|title=Swiss newspaper market in flux|journal=Swiss Review|date=October 2007|volume=5|page=9|url=http://www.revue.ch/fileadmin/revue/Ausgaben/2007/sr_en_2007_05_download.pdf}} Its circulation was 139,732 copies in 2009.{{cite book|author=Hugo Bigi|title=Journalism Education Between Market Dependence and Social Responsibility: An Examination of Trainee Journalists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojPlRFHuvoYC&pg=PA27|year=2012|publisher=Haupt Verlag AG|isbn=978-3-258-07753-6|page=26}} In 2010, the paper had a circulation of 136,894 copies.{{cite news|author=Cyril Jost|title=The challenges confronting the Swiss press|url=http://www.inaglobal.fr/en/press/article/challenges-confronting-swiss-press|access-date=23 December 2014|work=InaGlobal|date=4 February 2011}}

= Weekend edition =

In 2002, the newspaper launched a weekend edition, NZZ am Sonntag (NZZ on Sunday). The weekend edition has its own editorial staff and contains more soft news and lifestyle issues than its weekday counterpart, as do most Swiss weekend newspapers. Its circulation was 121,204 copies in 2006.

NZZ am Sonntag was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of weekly newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.{{cite web|title=European Newspaper Award 12+1|url=http://enc.newsroom.de/lang/en/archiv-archive/2012-2/wettbewerbaward/|work=European Newspaper Congress|access-date=1 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810095515/http://enc.newsroom.de/lang/en/archiv-archive/2012-2/wettbewerbaward/|archive-date=10 August 2014|df=dmy-all}}

= Archives =

In 2005, the complete run of the newspaper's first 225 years was scanned from microfilm. A total of two million images comprising seventy terabytes, and its Blackletter type was scanned{{spaced ndash}} using optical character recognition{{spaced ndash}} at a total cost of €600,000 (or €0.30 per image). The result is a searchable digital archive, accessible online by subscribers and publicly on site in Zurich.

The digitization was carried out by an institute of the German research organization Fraunhofer Society{{spaced ndash}} the Institute for Media Communication (since 2006, the {{Interlanguage link multi|Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems|de|3=Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung}}), headquartered in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia.Klaus Jacob. (February 2005). [http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/uploads/media/NZZ_fhg_journal_imk_nzz.pdf "70 Terabyte Zeitgeschichte"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719030019/http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/uploads/media/NZZ_fhg_journal_imk_nzz.pdf |date=19 July 2011}}. Fraunhofer Magazin. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

Editors-in-chief

1821 – 1830: Paul Usteri
1830 – 1849: 10 different editor-in-chiefs
1849 – 1867: Peter Jakob Felber
1868 – 1872: Eugen Escher
1872 – 1876: Hans Weber
1876 – 1877: Eugen Huber
1877 – 1878: Gottwalt Niederer
1878 – 1884: Gustav Vogt
1885 – 1915: Walter Bissegger
1915 – 1929: Albert Meyer
1933 – 1968: Willy Bretscher
1968 – 1985: Fred Luchsinger
1985 – 2006: Hugo Bütler
2006 – 2014: Markus Spillmann
since 2015: Eric Gujer

NZZ Libro

NZZ Libro is the book publishing part of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Books have been published since 1927; since 1980, the publishing house has been run as a separate profit centre. Since 2006 the publishing house has operated under the name NZZ Libro. The publishing programme of specialist and non-fiction literature includes, among other things, political, cultural, historical, and economic books, as well as biographies and illustrated books, predominantly with a Swiss reference.{{cite web|url=https://www.nzzmediengruppe.ch/produkt/nzz-libro/|title=NZZ Libro|publisher=NZZ|language=de|access-date=23 February 2018}}

Award

The {{Lang|de|Neue Zürcher Zeitung}} was a co-recipient of the 1979 Erasmus Prize, alongside German newspaper Die Zeit.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19790921&id=Bu9UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-ZIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5674,1504767 "Erasmus Prize"]. The Age (via Google News). 21 September 1979. Retrieved 23 August 2012. "The 1979 Erasmus Prize for outstanding contribution to European culture was presented jointly yesterday to the Swiss daily newspaper 'Neue Zuercher Zeitung' and the West German weekly 'Die Ziet'."