Profil (magazine)

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profil
Profil.svg
EditorChristian Rainer
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation71,033 (2013)
First issue7 September 1970; 51 years ago (1970-09-07)
CompanyNEWS
CountryAustria
Based inVienna
LanguageGerman
Websitewww.profil.at

profil is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna.

History and profile[]

profil was founded in 1970[1] by Oscar Bronner,[2][3] who also founded the magazine trend and the daily newspaper Der Standard.[4][5] The magazine is headquartered in Vienna.[2][6]

The first edition of profil came out as a monthly on 7 September 1970. Starting in October 1972, it was published every two weeks and from January 1974 every week.[7] In 2001 profil became part of the publishing company NEWS.[2] The magazine is sometimes considered the Austrian counterpart to Der Spiegel.[8] In 1975 business magazine, , merged with profil.[5]

profil includes sections for Austria, abroad, economy, society, science, and culture. Glosses, caricatures, and letters to the editor are also published. In the mid-1980s it had an independent and liberal leaning.[9] In the 2000s the magazine had a left liberal political stance.[10] It targets Austria's intelligentsia.[5] Both profil and trend initiated investigative journalism in the country.[5] It was profil which revealed the Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president.[11][12]

has been publisher and editor-in-chief since 1998[3] when he succeeded in the post. The chief editorial staff consists of , , and .

Investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin served as the political editor of profil.[13][14] He uncovered the story about Kurt Waldheim's Nazi connection.[14]

Circulation[]

The circulation of profil was 72,000 copies in 1985.[9] In 1993, the magazine had a circulation of more than 100,000 copies.[15]

The weekly had a circulation of 76,000 copies in 2003 and 78,000 copies in the first quarter of 2004.[7] In 2006, the magazine had a readership of 6%, being second to NEWS magazine.[16] The circulation of the magazine was 251,000 copies in 2007.[17] Its circulation for the first half of 2008 was 59,124 copies.[18] The 2010 circulation of profil was 93,000 copies.[19] The circulation of the magazine during the first half of 2013 was 71,033 copies.[20]

See also[]

List of magazines in Austria

References[]

  1. ^ "European News Resources". NYU Libraries. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "profil". Euro Topics. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Kimberly Bradley (October 2014). "Alive and kicking". Monocle. 77 (8). Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Despite Everything: The Oscar Bronner Story". Deutsches Haus. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Charlotte Natmeßnig (2006). "Business Press in Austria" (Conference Paper). Helsinki.fi. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  6. ^ "The Media in the German Speaking Countries". University of Chicago. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Media Markets: Austria Country Overview". Russian Telecom. August 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  8. ^ profil Presseurop. Retrieved 3 December 2013
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Ulf Jonas Bjork (August 1985). "Excitement, Tinged with Jingoism: British Public Opinion and the Falklands in Four News Magazines" (Conference paper). ERIC. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Communicating Europe: Austria Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  11. ^ Richard Mitten (1992). The Politics of the Antisemitic Prejudice. The Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria (PDF). Boulder: Westview Press. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Letter from Europe". The New Yorker. 30 June 1986. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  13. ^ Elisabeth Penz; Jon Thurber (15 June 2006). "Hubertus Czernin, 50; Austrian Journalist Had Role in Return of Art Seized by Nazis". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Richard Winter; Susan Winter Balk; Gregory Weeks (2007). Vienna's Conscience: Close-ups and Conversations After Hitler. Reedy Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-933370-08-8. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  15. ^ Eric Solsten, ed. (1994). Austria: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  16. ^ Günter Bischof; Fritz Plasser (January 2008). The Changing Austrian Voter. Transaction Publishers. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4128-1932-9.
  17. ^ Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market & Media Fact" (PDF). ZenithOptimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  18. ^ "Austria: New circulation figures for the 1st half 2008". Publicitas. 20 August 2008. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  19. ^ "Western Europe Media Facts. 2011 Edition" (PDF). ZenithOptimedia. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  20. ^ "List of represented titles. Magazines" (PDF). Publicitas International AG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.

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