Berliner Morgenpost

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Berliner Morgenpost
Berliner Morgenpost front page.png
The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Funke Mediengruppe
Editor
Founded1898; 123 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 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 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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