Die Presse
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Styria Media Group AG |
| Publisher | Die Presse Verlags-Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co KG |
| Editor | Rainer Nowak |
| Founded | 1848 |
| Political alignment | Centre-right, Classical liberalism |
| Language | German |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
| Circulation | 80,000 (2013) |
| Website | diepresse.com |
Die Presse is a German language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vienna, Austria.
Die Presse was first printed on 3 July 1848 as a liberal (libertarian)-bourgeois newspaper within the meaning of the revolutions of 1848 by the entrepreneur August Zang. Its staff split in 1864 under the leadership of Max Friedländer, Michael Etienne and Adolf Werthner to form the Neue Freie Presse, which later was aryanized by the Nazis in 1938 and effectively closed in 1939. In 1946, after the Second World War, resistance fighter Ernst Molden, who had been vice-editor-in-chief of the Neue Freie Presse from 1921 until 1939, reestablished the newspaper as Die Presse.
The "Presse" had been struggling for financial survival for a long time, until during the 1960s, the Austrian Chamber of Commerce became the main shareholder. Since 1999 it has been owned by the Styria Medien AG, a conservative-liberal media group founded by the Catholic Church. Its publisher is Die Presse Verlag GmbH.
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". The daily covers half-page science news each day.
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