Berliner Morgenpost

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Berliner Morgenpost
The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Funke Mediengruppe
EditorCarsten Erdmann
Founded1898; 126 years ago (1898)
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Websitewww.morgenpost.de Edit this at Wikidata

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapes.

History and profile[edit]

Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959. It was sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013.[1] The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers[2] The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann.[3]

It was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.[4]

Editor-in-chiefs[edit]

  • 1952–1953 Wilhelm Schulze
  • 1953–1959 Helmut Meyer-Dietrich
  • 1960–1972 Heinz Köster
  • 1973–1976 Walter Brückmann
  • 1976–1978 Hans-Werner Marquardt
  • 1978–1981 Wolfgang Kryszohn
  • 1981–1987 Johannes Otto
  • 1988–1996 Bruno Waltert
  • 1996–1999 Peter Philipps
  • 1999–2002 Herbert Wessels
  • 2002 Wolfram Weimer
  • 2003–2004 Jan-Eric Peters
  • 2004–2018 Carsten Erdmann
  • Since 2018 Christine Richter

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. ^ Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
  3. ^ Berliner Morgenpost Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine at axelspringer.de
  4. ^ "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

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