Tiroler Tageszeitung

Tiroler Tageszeitung
Owner(s)Moser Holding
PublisherSchlüssel Verlag/Moser Holding
Founded11 June 1945; 79 years ago (1945-06-11)
LanguageGerman
HeadquartersInnsbruck
CountryAustria
Sister newspapersTT Compact
Websitewww.tt.com

Tiroler Tageszeitung (also known as TT) is a provincial daily newspaper published in Innsbruck, Austria.[1] The paper has been in circulation since 1945 and is the newspaper with the widest reach in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

History and profile

TT's sponsorship for Innsbruck 2012 Youth Olympics

TT was first published on 11 June 1945.[2] During this period Austria was ruled by the Allies following World War II.[1][3] Its foundation was supported by the French and Americans,[3] but it was under the influence of the former.[4] Later the ownership of TT was transferred to Austrians.[3]

The German company Axel Springer Verlag acquired a stake of the paper in 1989[5] and had the majority stake of the paper in the 1990s.[6][7] The paper is wholly owned by the Moser Holding.[8][9][10] In 2008 the holding launched a free daily newspaper, namely TT Compact.[8][11] The publisher of TT is the Schlüssel Verlag/Moser company.[12][13]

TT is based in Innsbruck[14][15] and is a leading publication in Tyrol region.[16] The paper is described as a conservative publication.[17] However, the paper has no political affiliation and has an independent stance.[18]

TT is published in five regional editions.[7] The paper has four main sections: international news, national news, regional news and sports.[16] It is not an advertisement-oriented publication.[16] The paper was the only official sponsor of the Innsbruck 2012 Youth Olympics.[19]

In 2008 TT published a letter of German immunologist Clemens Sorg following his dismissal from the post as the rector of the Medical University of Innsbruck due to his involvement in a stem cell scandal.[20]

Circulation

TT was the sixth best selling Austrian newspaper in 2002 with a circulation of 122,000 copies.[21] The paper had a circulation of 112,690 copies in 2003.[22] It was the fifth best selling newspaper in Austria with a circulation of 121,000 copies in 2004.[23]

The regional market share of TT was 63% and its regional readership was 47% in 2006.[24] Its circulation in 2007 was 111,000 copies.[25] In the period of 2007–2008 the daily had a readership of 3.89%.[26] The 2008 circulation of the paper was 109,716 copies,[27] making it the sixth most read newspaper in Austria.[18] Its circulation was 108,045 copies in 2009 and 105,861 copies in 2010.[27] The daily had a circulation of 87,149 copies in 2011.[28] Its average circulation was 97,000 copies in 2013.[13] The magazine sold 91,045 copies in 2018.[29]

References

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  8. ^ a b "New Austrian free daily TT launched". Newspaper Innovation. 2 June 2008. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008.
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  16. ^ a b c Andreas Exenberger; et al. (2009). "One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic". In Christopher Hamilton (ed.). Facing tragedies. Wien: LIT Verlag. pp. 163–174. ISBN 978-3-643-50069-4.
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  19. ^ Tom Degun (29 March 2011). "Austrian bank become first Premium Partner of Innsbruck 2012". Inside the Games. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  20. ^ "Rector sacked in Austrian stem-cell scandal". Nature. 454 (7208): 1041. 27 August 2008. doi:10.1038/4541041a. S2CID 4421120.
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  22. ^ The Europa World Year Book 2003 (3rd ed.). London; New York: Europa Publications. 2003. p. 607. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5.
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  26. ^ Christian Fuchs (2011). Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies. London; New York: Routledge. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-136-82531-6.
  27. ^ a b "National newspapers total circulation". International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  28. ^ Paul Murschetz; Matthias Karmasin (2013). "Austria: Press Subsidies in Search of a New Design". In Paul Murschetz (ed.). State Aid for Newspapers. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-35691-9.
  29. ^ Manuela Grünangerl; Josef Trappel; Tales Tomaz (2021). "Austria. Confirmed democratic performance while slowly digitalising". In Josef Trappel; Tales Tomaz (eds.). The Media for Democracy Monitor 2021: How leading news media survive digital transformation. Vol. 1. Gothenburg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. p. 99. doi:10.48335/9789188855404-3. ISBN 978-91-88855-42-8.