Tiroler Tageszeitung

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TT was first published on 11 June 1945.{{cite book|author=Oliver Rathkolb|title=The Paradoxical Republic: Austria 1945-2005

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a1jCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|year=2010|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-78238-396-3|page=143|location=New York; Oxford}} During this period Austria was ruled by the Allies following World War II.{{cite web|title=Austria|url=http://www.pressreference.com/A-Be/Austria.html|work=Press Reference|access-date=7 October 2013}} Its foundation was supported by the French and Americans, but it was under the influence of the former.{{cite journal|author=Alexander Golovlev|title=Dancing the Nation? French Dance Diplomacy in Allied-Occupied Austria, 1945–55|journal=Austrian History Yearbook|year=2019|volume=50|page=173|doi=10.1017/S0067237818000607|s2cid=151083673}} Later the ownership of TT was transferred to Austrians.

The German company Axel Springer Verlag acquired a stake of the paper in 1989{{cite web|title=Axel Springer Group: landmarks

|url=http://ketupa.net/axelspringer2.htm|work=Ketupa|access-date=7 February 2015|archive-date=25 October 2014|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025102225/http://ketupa.net/axelspringer2.htm|df=dmy-all}} and had the majority stake of the paper in the 1990s.{{cite book|editor1=Mary Kelly|editor2=Gianpietro Mazzoleni|editor3=Denis McQuail|title=The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook|page=5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYCVxSFNNpkC&pg=PA5|year=2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|chapter=Austria

|isbn=978-0-7619-4131-6|author=Josef Trappel|location=London|edition=3rd}}{{cite web|title=At the Tiroler Tageszeitung

|url=http://www.wan-ifra.org/system/files/field_ifra_mag_file/E_nt975_40-45.pdf|work=WAN IFRA|access-date=8 October 2013}} The paper is wholly owned by the Moser Holding.{{cite journal|title=New Austrian free daily TT launched|journal=Newspaper Innovation|date=2 June 2008|url=http://www.newspaperinnovation.com/index.php/2008/06/02/new-austrian-free-daily-tt-launched/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607010545/http://www.newspaperinnovation.com/index.php/2008/06/02/new-austrian-free-daily-tt-launched/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=7 June 2008}}{{cite news|title=Styria-Moser merger may cost jobs|url=http://austriantimes.at/news/Business/2009-06-03/13707/Travel-newentry|access-date=21 November 2014|work=Austrian Times|date=3 June 2009}}{{cite web|title=Communications Report 2005|work=Rundfunk and Telekom Regulierungs GmbH|access-date=1 January 2015|url=https://www.rtr.at/en/komp/KBericht2005/3847_CommReport_2005_E.PDF|format=Report}} In 2008 the holding launched a free daily newspaper, namely TT Compact.{{cite journal|author=Piet Bakker|title=Mixed paid/free models target the total audience|journal=Ideas|year=2009|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/2/79702}} The publisher of TT is the Schlüssel Verlag/Moser company.{{cite news|title=Austria: Top daily newspapers|url=http://www.publicitas.com/de/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=43588#.VNIAhGSsXRA|access-date=4 February 2015|work=Publicitas|date=28 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2015

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204141002/http://www.publicitas.com/de/home/media-news-events/news-detail/?newsid=43588#.VNIAhGSsXRA}}{{cite web|title=Austria 2013|access-date=25 February 2015|work=WAN IFRA

|url=http://www.wptdatabase.org/reports/2013/austria#wpt-report-chapter-3}}

TT is based in Innsbruck{{cite web|title=The Austrian media landscape|work=Wien International|accessdate=7 October 2013

|url=http://www.wieninternational.at/en/content/the-austrian-media-landscape-en|archive-date=14 October 2013|df=dmy-all|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014061900/http://www.wieninternational.at/en/content/the-austrian-media-landscape-en}}{{cite web

|title=Tiroler Tageszeitung|url=http://www.publicitas.com/germany/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/tiroler-tageszeitung/?PARAM1=MI1TI1#.VJbnd8AgEc|work=Publicitas|access-date=21 December 2014}} and is a leading publication in Tyrol region. The paper is described as a conservative publication.{{cite web|title=Austria. Newspapers and Magazines Online|work=World Press

|url=http://www.worldpress.org/newspapers/EUROPE/Austria.cfm|access-date=7 October 2013}} However, the paper has no political affiliation and has an independent stance.{{cite book|author=Lisa Müller|title=Comparing Mass Media in Established Democracies: Patterns of Media Performance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjxvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA225|year=2014|page=224|location=Basingstone; New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-39138-4}}

TT is published in five regional editions. The paper has four main sections: international news, national news, regional news and sports. It is not an advertisement-oriented publication.{{cite book|author=Andreas Exenberger

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik-PJM139G0C|editor=Christopher Hamilton|display-authors=et. al.|title=Facing tragedies|year=2009

|publisher=LIT Verlag|location=Wien|pages=163–174|chapter=One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic|isbn=978-3-643-50069-4}} The paper was the only official sponsor of the Innsbruck 2012 Youth Olympics.{{cite news|author=Tom Degun|title=Austrian bank become first Premium Partner of Innsbruck 2012|work=Inside the Games|access-date=21 December 2014

|url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/olympics/youth-olympics/2012/12502-austrian-bank-become-first-premium-partner-of-innsbruck-2012|date=29 March 2011}}

In 2008 TT published a letter of German immunologist Clemens Sorg following his dismissal from the post as the rector of the Medical University of Innsbruck due to his involvement in a stem cell scandal.{{cite journal|title=Rector sacked in Austrian stem-cell scandal|journal=Nature|date=27 August 2008|volume=454|issue=7208|page=1041|doi=10.1038/4541041a|s2cid=4421120

|doi-access=free}}

TT was the sixth best selling Austrian newspaper in 2002 with a circulation of 122,000 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

|year=2004}} The paper had a circulation of 112,690 copies in 2003.{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year Book 2003|edition=3rd

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvU9lroRuUC&pg=PA607|year=2003|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-227-5|page=607

|location=London; New York}} It was the fifth best selling newspaper in Austria with a circulation of 121,000 copies in 2004.{{cite web|title=Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union|work=Commission of the European Communities|access-date=27 March 2015

|url=http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media_taskforce/doc/pluralism/media_pluralism_swp_en.pdf|location=Brussels|date=16 January 2007}}

The regional market share of TT was 63% and its regional readership was 47% in 2006.{{cite book|editor1=Günter Bischof|editor2=Fritz Plasser|title=The Changing Austrian Voter|year=2008|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EK81N6akyEUC&pg=PT133|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-1932-9|page=127|volume=16|location=New Brunswick, NJ; London|author1=Fritz Plasser|author2=Gilg Seeber

|chapter=Austrian Electoral Behavior in International Comparison}} Its circulation in 2007 was 111,000 copies.{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market & MediaFact|access-date=1 January 2015|year=2008|work=Zenith Optimedia

|url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf}} In the period of 2007–2008 the daily had a readership of 3.89%.{{cite book|author=Christian Fuchs|title=Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2Zo8wAymHAC&pg=PA4|year=2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-82531-6|page=4|location=London; New York}} The 2008 circulation of the paper was 109,716 copies,{{cite web|title=National newspapers total circulation|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls

|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=7 October 2013}} making it the sixth most read newspaper in Austria. Its circulation was 108,045 copies in 2009 and 105,861 copies in 2010. The daily had a circulation of 87,149 copies in 2011.{{cite book|author1=Paul Murschetz|author2=Matthias Karmasin|editor=Paul Murschetz|title=State Aid for Newspapers

|year=2013|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-642-35691-9|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6-9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134|chapter=Austria: Press Subsidies in Search of a New Design}} Its average circulation was 97,000 copies in 2013. The magazine sold 91,045 copies in 2018.{{cite book|author1=Manuela Grünangerl|author2=Josef Trappel|author3=Tales Tomaz|editor1=Josef Trappel|editor2=Tales Tomaz|title=The Media for Democracy Monitor 2021: How leading news media survive digital transformation

|year=2021|publisher=Nordicom, University of Gothenburg|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-88855-42-8|doi=10.48335/9789188855404-3|page=99|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855404-3|volume=1|chapter=Austria. Confirmed democratic performance while slowly digitalising}}

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