Format Broadsheet | Editor-in-chief Peter Stefan Herbst | |
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Type Regional daily newspaper Owner(s) Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (56.1 %)
Gesellschaft für staatsbürgerliche Bildung Saar mbH (26 %) Founder(s) Bernhard and Gottfried Hofer Publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei | ||
The Saarbrücker Zeitung (SZ) is a daily (except Sundays) newspaper published in Saarland, Germany.
History and profile
It was first published as a weekly journal in 1761 under the title Nassau-Saarbrückisches Wochenblatt (Nassau-Saarbrücken Weekly). After several changes in name and frequency, it appeared since 1861 under its current title. After the Saar Treaty in 1956, the Saarland state became its owner. It was privatized in 1969; the paper's major owner (56.1%) is the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
In 2001, Saarbrücker Zeitung received the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Prize for Local Journalism.
Saarbrücker Zeitung had a circulation of 147,327 copies in 2011.
References
Saarbrücker Zeitung Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA