Süddeutsche Zeitung

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = Süddeutsche Zeitung

| logo = Süddeutsche_Zeitung.svg

| image = Suddeutsche Zeitung 090520 M.jpg

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| caption = The 20 May 2009 front page

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Nordisch

| foundation = {{Start date|1945|10|6|df=yes}}

| owners = {{Interlanguage link multi|Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding|de}}

| headquarters = Munich, Germany

| circulation = 320,159 (Print, 2020)
90,998 (Digital, 2020){{cite web|title=Suddeutsche Zeitung media kit 2015|url=http://sz-media.sueddeutsche.de/de/service/files/sz_preisliste.pdf|access-date=22 July 2016|date=October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801211629/http://sz-media.sueddeutsche.de/de/service/files/sz_preisliste.pdf|archive-date=1 August 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

| editor = Judith Wittwer

| political = Progressive-liberalism[http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-world-from-berlin-the-substance-of-what-s-p-is-saying-is-quite-right-a-802244.html News] Der Spiegel.
Centre-left{{cite news|title=The Substance of What S&P Is Saying Is Quite Right|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-world-from-berlin-the-substance-of-what-s-p-is-saying-is-quite-right-a-802244.html|work=Spiegel Online| date=7 December 2011 |access-date=20 August 2012}}{{cite web|author1=Ruud Koopmans|author2=Barbara Pfetsch|title=Towards a Europeanised Public Sphere? Comparing Political Actors and the Media in Germany|url=http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/projects/cidel/old/Reports/702.pdf#page=62|publisher=Centre for European Studies|access-date=19 December 2014|location=Oslo|format=Report|date=May 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219213044/http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/projects/cidel/old/Reports/702.pdf#page=62|archive-date=19 December 2014|df=dmy-all}}

| website = {{URL|https://www.sueddeutsche.de/}}

| ISSN = 0174-4917

}}

The Süddeutsche Zeitung ({{IPA|de|ˈzyːtˌdɔʏtʃə ˈtsaɪtʊŋ|pron}}; {{literal translation|South German Newspaper}}), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left,{{cite book|editor=Rough Guides |title=The Rough Guide to Berlin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xG7vDQAAQBAJ&dq=centre-left+S%C3%BCddeutsche+Zeitung&pg=PT47 |quote= Of the national dailies, the two bestsellers are the centre-left Süddeutsche Zeitung ( sueddeutsche.de) and the centre-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( faz.net), along with the liberal Berlin-based Tagesspiegel ( tagesspiegel.de) ... |date=2017 |publisher=Rough Guides UK |isbn=9780241307632 }} liberal,{{cite book|editor=Maximilian Conrad |title=Europeans and the Public Sphere: Communication without Community? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVH_BgAAQBAJ&dq=liberal+S%C3%BCddeutsche+Zeitung&pg=PA243 |quote=Yet the critique of the Polish government is every bit as scathing in the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung, whose EU correspondent Cornelia Bolesch writes that "the Polish government is parading the dead", and that the latter's "reference to ... |date=2014 |page=243 |publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9783838266855 }} social-liberal,{{cite book|editor=Andrea Grisold, Paschal Preston |title=Economic Inequality and News Media: Discourse, Power, and Redistribution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wcCEAAAQBAJ&dq=social+liberal+S%C3%BCddeutsche+Zeitung&pg=PA118 |quote= ... which emphasize the problematic aspects of inequality are, as expected, markedly higher in all centre- left/ social- liberal newspapers across all countries (The Guardian, Irish Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Der Standard). |date=2020 |page=118 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190053918 }} progressive-liberal,{{cite book|editor=Jordana Silverstein, Rachel Stevens |title=Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tf8aEAAAQBAJ&dq=left-liberal+S%C3%BCddeutsche+Zeitung&pg=PA91 |date=2021 |page=91 |publisher=ANU Press|isbn=9781760464196 }} and social-democrat.{{cite book |editor=Javier Fernández Sebastián |author=Faustino Oncina Coves |title=Political concepts and time: New Approaches to conceptual History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2idyDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22social+democrat%22+S%C3%BCddeutsche+Zeitung&pg=PA306 |quote= He was in demand as a contributor and interlocutor with daily and weekly publications of all colours (the left-wing and alternative Tageszeitung and Libération, the social democrat Süddeutsche Zeitung, the progressive Die Zeit, ... |date=2011 |page=306 |publisher=Ed. Universidad de Cantabria |isbn=9788481028720 }} It is considered one of Germany's newspapers of record.{{cite news |last=Zerofsky |first=Elisabeth |date=11 November 2017 |title=How a German Newspaper Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-german-newspaper-became-the-go-to-place-for-leaks-like-the-paradise-papers |url-status=live |newspaper=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240502083554/https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-german-newspaper-became-the-go-to-place-for-leaks-like-the-paradise-papers |archive-date=2 May 2024 |access-date=10 October 2024 |url-access=limited |quote=Süddeutsche Zeitung has, in recent years, pulled even with, or perhaps surpassed, the Frankfurter Allgemeine as the daily newspaper of record in Germany}}{{cite news |last=Pfanner |first=Eric |date=13 March 2011 |title=Gloves Off in German Media Scramble |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/business/global/14bild.html |url-status=live |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220717173617/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/business/global/14bild.html |archive-date=17 July 2022 |access-date=6 October 2024 |url-access=limited |quote="{{ill|leitmedium|de|italic=y}}" in Germany, .. using a term that translates as "leading medium", and describes the role of what is sometimes called a "newspaper of record" ... Süddeutsche Zeitung}}

The Süddeutsche Zeitung was one of the first daily newspapers approved by the Allies after World War II and was first published on October 6, 1945.

The newspaper is published by Süddeutsche Verlag in Munich. It is majority owned by investment holdings and a small part by the original publishing family, the Friedmann family.

The editors-in-chief are Wolfgang Krach and Judith Wittwer. The chairman of the editorial board is Thomas Schaub.

History

=20th century=

On 6 October 1945,{{cite web|title=Media Landscape Media Claims|url=http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/round6/methods/ESS6_media_landscape_media_claims_ed_02_0.pdf|work=European Social Survey|access-date=12 January 2015|date=May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816014141/http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/round6/methods/ESS6_media_landscape_media_claims_ed_02_0.pdf|archive-date=16 August 2014|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|author=Sigurd Hess|title=German Intelligence Organizations and the Media|journal=Journal of Intelligence History|date=2009|volume=9|issue=1–2|pages=75–87|doi=10.1080/16161262.2009.10555166|s2cid=154195583}} five months after the end of World War II in Germany, the SZ was the first newspaper to receive a license from the U.S. military administration of Bavaria. The first issue was published the same evening, reportedly printed from the same presses that had printed Mein Kampf.{{cite magazine|last1=Zerofsky|first1=Elisabeth|title=How a German Newspaper Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-german-newspaper-became-the-go-to-place-for-leaks-like-the-paradise-papers|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=11 November 2017|date=11 November 2017}}

Bernard B. McMahon, commander of the US intelligence control system, had previously been looking for a long time for non-Nazi ("untainted") licensees for a new German daily newspaper. He found them in the publishers August Schwingenstein, Edmund Goldschagg and Franz Josef Schöningh.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-06 |title=6. Oktober 1945 - "Süddeutsche Zeitung" erscheint erstmals |url=https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag-sueddeutsche-zeitung-erscheint-100.html |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=www1.wdr.de |language=de}}

The founders announced, Süddeutsche Zeitung would "a mouthpiece for all Germans who are united in their love of freedom, in their hatred of the totalitarian state, in their abhorrence of everything that is National Socialist".

The most important competitioner is the 1949 founded more conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

=21st century=

Declines in advertising in the early 2000s were so severe that the paper was on the brink of bankruptcy in October 2002. The Süddeutsche survived through a 150 million euro investment by a new shareholder, a regional newspaper chain called Südwestdeutsche Medien. Over three years, the newspaper underwent a reduction in its staff, from 425 to 307, the closing of a regional edition in Düsseldorf, and the scrapping of a section devoted to news from Berlin.Mark Landler (19 January 2004), [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/19/business/media-woes-at-two-pillars-of-german-journalism.html MEDIA; Woes at Two Pillars of German Journalism] New York Times.

In spring 2004, SZ launched the Süddeutsche Bibliothek. Each week, one of 50 famous novels of the 20th century was made available in hardcover at certain newsstands and in book shops. Later a series of 50 influential movies on DVD followed. In late 2004, the daily also launched a popular science magazine, SZ Wissen.{{cite web|title=New trend in Germany: scientific magazines by Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung|url=http://wef.blogs.com/editors/2004/12/new_trend_in_ge_1.html|work=Editors Weblog|access-date=5 October 2013|date=3 December 2004}} In late 2005, a series of children's books continued this branch of special editions.

In early 2015, the newspaper received a 2.6-terabyte dataset from an anonymous source. The dataset contained confidential information of a law firm offering the management of offshore companies. The newspaper in conjunction with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reviewed the data from the Panama Papers for over a year before publishing stories from it on 3 April 2016.{{cite web|title=Panama Papers. The secrets of dirty money|url=http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/|access-date=3 April 2016|date=April 2016}}

In late 2017, the newspaper released snippets from a 1.4-terabyte dataset to be known as the "Paradise Papers" containing about 13.4 million documents, throwing light on the financial offshore jurisdictions, whose workings are unveiled, including Bermuda, the headquarters of the main company involved, Appleby, corporate services provider Estera, corporate registries in the Caribbean and Singapore-based international trust and corporate services provider, Asiaciti Trust. It contains the names of more than 120,000 people and companies."[https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41877932 Paradise Papers: Your guide to four years of offshore revelations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107042727/http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41877932 |date=7 November 2017}}". The newspaper called in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to oversee the investigation. BBC Panorama and The Guardian were among the nearly 100 media groups investigating the papers. The leaked data covers seven decades, from 1950 to 2016."[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-41880153 Paradise Papers: Everything you need to know about the leak] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109071826/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-41880153 |date=9 November 2017}}".

In May 2018, the German Press Council opened an inquiry to determine whether a Süddeutsche Zeitung cartoon which depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was anti-Semitic; readers had complained that the image "reminded them of the anti-Semitic language of Nazi times". Süddeutsche Zeitung ended its decades-long collaboration with the cartoonist and apologized to readers, calling the cartoon a mistake.Riham Alkousaa (May 18, 2018), [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-antisemitism-cartoon/german-newspaper-drops-cartoonist-after-netanyahu-drawing-idUSKCN1IJ1MT German newspaper drops cartoonist after Netanyahu drawing], Reuters.

Profile

In German politics, the term liberalism is different from that in the United States, and like other European regions, it is a concept that encompasses both centre-right and centre-left. Traditionally, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung represents the view of right-wing liberals, while Süddeutsche Zeitung represents the view of left-wing liberals.{{Cite news|last=Greenberg|first=David|date=September 12, 2019|title=The danger of confusing liberals and leftists|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/12/stop-calling-bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-liberals/|access-date=2020-08-06|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Goldfarb|first=Michael|date=2010-07-20|title=Liberal? Are we talking about the same thing?|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-10658070|access-date=2020-08-06}}{{Cite book |author=Irene Preisinger |title=Information zwischen Interpretation und Kritik: Das Berufsverständnis politischer Journalisten in Frankreich und Deutschland |publisher=Westdeutscher Verlag |year=2002 |pages=122–123}}

The paper, often abbreviated SZ, is read throughout Germany by 1.1 million readers daily and boasts a relatively high circulation abroad. The editorial stance of the newspaper is progressive-liberal and generally of a centre-left orientation, leading some to joke that the SZ is the only meaningful opposition in the state of Bavaria, which has been governed by the conservative Christian Social Union of Bavaria almost continuously since 1949. In the 2013 elections the paper was among the supporters of the SPD.{{cite web|author=Juan P. Artero|title=Political Parallelism and Media Coalitions in Western Europe|url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Political%20Parallelism%20and%20Media%20Coalitions.pdf|work=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism|access-date=8 April 2015|format=Working paper|date=February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416100348/https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Political%20Parallelism%20and%20Media%20Coalitions.pdf|archive-date=16 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}

SZ is published in Nordisch format.

Circulation

During the third quarter of 1992 SZ had a circulation of 397,000 copies.{{cite web|author=Georg Hellack|title=Press, Radio and Television in the Federal Republic of Germany|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED353617.pdf|work=Inter Nationes|access-date=3 April 2015|format=Report|date=1992}} The 1993 circulation of the paper was 304,499 copies.{{cite book|author=Peter Humphreys|title=Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe|date=1996|publisher=Manchester University Press|page=82|isbn=9780719031977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vlTzbOGhdIC&pg=PR6 |access-date=29 October 2014}} In 1995–96 it had a circulation of 407,000 copies.{{cite book|title=Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6HU9WdjwgkC&pg=PA7|access-date=3 February 2014|date=24 September 1998|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4462-6524-6|page=10}}

Its 2001 circulation was 436,000 copies and it was one of the top 100 European newspapers.{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/european-newspapers-europes-top-papers/164161|access-date=5 February 2015|website=www.campaignlive.co.uk|date=15 November 2002}} In 2003 SZ had a circulation of 433,000 copies.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-date=8 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082604/http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|url-status=dead}} In the fourth quarter of 2004, it sold an average of 441,955 copies.{{cite web|title=The New York Times of Munich – Portrait of the Süddeutsche Zeitung|url=http://www.goethe.de/wis/med/pnt/zuz/en556318.htm|work=Goethe-Institut|access-date=2 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106000442/http://www.goethe.de/wis/med/pnt/zuz/en556318.htm|archive-date=6 November 2013}} The circulation was 429,345 copies in the first quarter of 2006.{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-germany_en.pdf|work=Turku School of Economics (Media Group)|access-date=27 March 2015|format=Report|date=March 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208160716/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-germany_en.pdf|archive-date=8 December 2015}} During the first quarter of 2012 it had a circulation of 432,000 copies.