Der Standard
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Oscar Bronner |
| Publisher | Standard Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H |
| Editor | Alexandra Föderl-Schmid |
| Founded | 19 October 1988 |
| Political alignment | Left liberal |
| Headquarters | Vienna |
| Circulation | 86,000 (2013) |
| Website | derstandard.at |
Der Standard is an Austrian national daily broadsheet newspaper published in Vienna, although the paper is produced in Tulln an der Donau in Lower Austria, due to lower taxes in that federal state.
Der Standard was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and published its first edition on 19 October 1988. German media company Axel Springer acquired stake in the paper in 1988 and sold it in 1995.
Bronner remains the paper's publisher and is nominally editor-in-chief along with Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, who handles the day-to-day editing. When Föderl-Schmid took over from Gerfried Sperl in July 2007, it became the first Austrian newspaper to have a female editor-in-chief. Der Standard sees itself as—in a Continental European sense (socially and culturally, but not economically)—liberal and independent. Third parties have described the paper as having a left-liberal stance. Until 2007, the editor-in-chief of the daily was Gerfried Sperl, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid succeeded him in the post.
In 2002 the paper was one of four quality daily newspapers with nationwide distribution along with Salzburger Nachrichten, Die Presse, and Wiener Zeitung. Although Der Standard is intended to be a national paper, in the past it had an undeniable tendency to focus on Vienna. This has been mitigated by having editorial offices in other federal states (currently Styria, Upper Austria and Carinthia) and the introduction of regional sections. Der Standard is a paper from which foreign media readily quote when an opinion from the Austrian press is required. It is one of Austria's best-selling quality newspapers and on 18 June 2005 celebrated its 5000th edition.
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