WOZ Die Wochenzeitung

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WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
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TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)infolink cooperative, employees of the newspaper
Editor-in-chiefSilvia Süess, Kaspar Surber, Yves Wegelin
Staff writersSusan Boos, Cigdem Akyol
Founded1981 (1981) as Die WochenZeitung (WoZ)
Political alignmentLeft-wing, Green socialism
LanguageGerman
HeadquartersZürich, Switzerland
Circulation18,052 (as of 2020)
Websitewww.woz.ch

WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, (commonly abbreviated as WOZ or Wochenzeitung), is a Swiss, German-language weekly newspaper, published in Zürich (Switzerland).

History[]

Die WochenZeitung (WoZ) first appeared on 1 October 1981.[1] It was based on the experiences of the German Die Tageszeitung (Taz) and the Zürich-based monthly student magazine Das Konzept. Its creation was influenced by events of the Swiss alternative political movement in the first phase of the youth movement of the 1980s. Well-known journalists like Niklaus Meienberg or but also novelists such as Max Frisch and Otto F. Walter regularly wrote for the paper. In 1987 WOZ started using Gender-neutral language.

Early in 1995, WOZ and Taz became joint editors of the German-language edition of Le Monde diplomatique which is being offered as a free monthly supplement to the newspaper.

Since the beginning, all employees have been remunerated according to the principle of equality: A uniform wage of currently 5400 Swiss Francs is being paid.[2] The low proportion of advertisements granted the newspaper a certain independence, but the newspaper was periodically under-funded. Following a reboot in 2003, the newspaper ended in near bankruptcy due to increased costs, but a reorganization in 2005, which included changing the whole original editorial board and the decision to not have a chief editor, ultimately allowed the publication to continue.[3] In recent years the readership has been growing steadily and the paper has achieved financial stability and raised wages.[4]

Organization and Profile[]

The cooperative belongs to all employees who are employed by at least half time. The equity of the WOZ consists of one-time membership fees of current and former cooperative members. The editorial meeting is responsible for newspaper content. Decisions of greater consequence are decided by the plenary of the cooperative members. Many staff officials are in one or more working groups or commissions within the company. The company has over fifty employees and an annual turnover of around five million Swiss Francs. Since 1984 WOZ has been supported by the ProWOZ society, whose members more than double the subscription bases.[5]

WOZ claims to be the only independent national newspaper in German-speaking Switzerland: it doesn't belong to either a political party, association or media company, and aims to deliver critical high-quality journalism.[6] In addition to its thirty editors, it also has a broad network of freelance journalists. According to the readership study MACH Basic, WOZ reaches 101,000 regular readers with a daily circulation of 17,103 copies (WEMF 2017).[7] WOZ was the highest ranked media product in terms of quality of coverage among magazines, weeklys and Sunday newspapers in Switzerland in independent 2018 and 2020 studies.[8]

See also[]

Literature[]

  • Carmen Berchtold, Jürg Fischer, Constantin Seibt (texts) and Gertrud Vogler (photography): Das Buch Monster: 100 Fälle aus der Praxis der Familie Monster. WoZ, Zürich 1997, ISBN 3906236021.
  • Stefan Howald: Links und bündig. Eine alternative Mediengeschichte. Rotpunktverlag, Zürich 2018. ISBN 978-3-85869-755-4.

References[]

  1. ^ "Geschichte der WOZ: Ein Kampf um Worte und ein kleiner Krieg". www.woz.ch (in German). 7 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  2. ^ Waldvogel, Raphael. "WOZ erhöht Einheitslohn auf 5400 Franken". Klein Report (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  3. ^ Bernard Degen (20 November 2013). "WochenZeitung (WOZ)" (in German). Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  4. ^ Waldvogel, Raphael. "WOZ erhöht Einheitslohn auf 5400 Franken". Klein Report (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Über uns" (in German). Die Wochenzeitung WOZ. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Eine Zeitung, 102 000 LeserInnen | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung". www.woz.ch. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Wemf Auflagenbeglaubigung" (PDF) (in German). Wemf. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  8. ^ "WOZ Die Wochenzeitung - MQR 2020". www.mqr-schweiz.ch. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

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