Berliner Morgenpost
Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is the second most read daily newspaper.
 The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Funke Mediengruppe |
| Editor | Carsten Erdmann |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Website | www |
History and profile
Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959. It was sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013.[1] The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers[2] The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann.[3]
It was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.[4]
Editor-in-chiefs
- 1952–1953 Wilhelm Schulze
- 1953–1959 Helmut Meyer-Dietrich
- 1960–1972 Heinz Köster
- 1973–1976 Walter Brückmann
- 1976–1978 Werner Marquardt
- 1978–1981 Wolfgang Kryszohn
- 1981–1987 Johannes Otto
- 1988–1996 Bruno Waltert
- 1996–1999 Peter Philipps
- 1999–2002 Herbert Wessels
- 2002 Wolfram Weimer
- 2003–2004 Jan-Eric Peters
- 2004–2018 Carsten Erdmann
- since 2018 Christine Richter
References
- Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
- Berliner Morgenpost Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine at axelspringer.de
- "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
External links
- Official website
(in German)
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