Profil (magazine)
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| Editor | Christian Rainer |
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| Categories | News magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 71,033 (2013) |
| First issue | 7 September 1970 |
| Company | NEWS |
| Country | Austria |
| Based in | Vienna |
| Language | German |
| Website | www |
profil is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna.
profil was founded in 1970 by Oscar Bronner, who also founded the magazine trend and the daily newspaper Der Standard. The magazine is headquartered in Vienna.
The first edition of profil came out as a monthly on 7 September 1970. Starting in October 1972, it was published every two weeks and from January 1974 every week. In 2001 profil became part of the publishing company NEWS. The magazine is sometimes considered the Austrian counterpart to Der Spiegel. In 1975 business magazine, ecco, merged with profil.
profil includes sections for Austria, abroad, economy, society, science, and culture. Glosses, caricatures, and letters to the editor are also published. In the mid-1980s it had an independent and liberal leaning. In the 2000s the magazine had a left liberal political stance. It targets Austria's intelligentsia. Both profil and trend initiated investigative journalism in the country. It was profil which revealed the Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president.
Christian Rainer has been publisher and editor-in-chief since 1998 when he succeeded Josef Votzi in the post. The chief editorial staff consists of Sven Gächter, Stefan Janny, and Herbert Lackner.
Investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin served as the political editor of profil. He uncovered the story about Kurt Waldheim's Nazi connection.
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