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News is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna, Austria. The weekly is the major news magazine in the country[1] and has been in circulation since October 1992.
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| Categories | News magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
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| Founded | 1992 |
| First issue | October 1992 |
| Company | VGN |
| Country | Austria |
| Based in | Vienna |
| Language | German |
| Website | News |
News magazine was established by Helmut and Wolfgang Fellner and was first published in October 1992.[2][3][4] The Verlagsgruppe News is the publisher of the magazine which is published weekly.[5][6] The Fellner brothers sold the some shares of the company to Gruner + Jahr,[7][8] a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.[9] In 2016 Gruner + Jahr sold its shares to the Verlagsgruppe News, known as VGN.[10]
News covers entertainment and lifestyle topics[11] as well as news on current affairs, politics and culture.[12]
In the 1990s Senta Ziegler served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.[13] Until 2008 Andreas Weber was the editor-in-chief of the weekly.[5] Then Atha Athanasiadis served as the editor-in-chief of the News magazine from 2008 to February 2010.[14] As of 2010 the editor-in-chief of the magazine was Peter Pelinka who was appointed to the post in February that year.[15] Corinna Milborn and Silvia Meister were the deputy editors of the weekly.[15]
News sold more than 200,000 copies in 1993.[4] The market share of the magazine was 19.3% in 2000.[16] The magazine had a circulation of 254,000 copies in 2003.[6] Its readership in 2005 was about 14%, making it the first in its category.[17] In 2007 the magazine sold 285,000 copies.[18]
For the first half of 2008 the magazine had a circulation of 125,710 copies.[19] It was the third best-selling magazine in the country in 2008.[20] News sold 215,000 copies in 2010.[21] In 2012 its circulation was 125.751 copies,[7] and it was 135,875 copies in the first half of 2013.[12]
In June 2005, News was fined by an Austrian court following its publication of Finance Minister Karl Heinz Grasser's photos kissing Fiona Swarovski, an heiress of the Swarovski crystal dynasty.[22]
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