The paper covers general news topics. It is frequently quoted in international media concerning news from Austria. Since March 2009 it has also been operating a weekly newspaper under the name "Die Presse am Sonntag".[9][10] The daily covers half-page science news each day.[11]
In 2007 the editor-in-chief of Die Presse was Michael Fleischhacker who had been appointed to the post in 2004.[11][12] Next year the paper was named Best Editorial Team in Austria.[10]
Circulation
In 2002 Die Presse was one of four quality daily newspapers with nationwide distribution along with Der Standard, Salzburger Nachrichten, and Wiener Zeitung.[13] The same year its circulation was 120,000 copies.[8] In 2004 the paper had a circulation of 115,000 copies.[14]
The 2007 circulation of Die Presse was 121,000 copies.[15] The circulation of the daily was 120,363 copies in 2008 and 102,598 copies in 2009.[16] It was 97,091 copies in 2010.[16] The paper had a circulation of 74,032 copies in 2011.[17] Its circulation was 80,000 copies in 2013.[18]
CIA involvement
In 2009, reports claimed that the long-time editor Otto Schulmeister had been working for the CIA in the 1960s and the 1970s,[19][20] and the CIA already described it internally as “CIA-subsidized” as early as 1951, when the CIA used it to distribute Animal Farm in the Soviet Zone of Vienna.[21]
Notes
^Established as Die Presse in 1848, the staff split in 1864 to form the Neue Freie Presse, aryanized by the Nazis in 1938 and effectively closed in 1939, reestablished as Die Presse in 1946, after the Second World War."Die Presse - Die Geschichte". Archived from the original on 6 February 2014.
References
^"Biotechnology"(PDF). EU. 31 May 2002. Archived from the original(Report) on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
^Gunter Bischof; Anton Pelinka; Dagmar Herzog (31 December 2011). Sexuality in Austria. Transaction Publishers. p. 229. ISBN978-1-4128-0978-8. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^"Director's Log"(PDF). Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. Central Intelligence Agency. 6 December 1951. p. 194. Archived from the original(PDF) on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
Further reading
Merrill, John Calhoun; Fisher, Harold A. (1980). The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers. New York. pp. 250–255. ISBN978-0-8038-8095-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Die Presse". Encyclopedia Britannica. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2021.