Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost

The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Funke Mediengruppe
Editor Carsten Erdmann
Founded 1898 (1898)
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Website www.morgenpost.de

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

History and profile

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]

References

  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 at axelspringer.de
  4. "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

External links

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