WOZ Die Wochenzeitung

WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s) infolink cooperative, employees of the newspaper
Editor-in-chief Susan Boos
Associate editor Stefan Howald, Yves Wegelin
Founded 1981 (1981) as WochenZeitung (WoZ)
Political alignment Centre-left, Green socialism
Language German
Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland
Circulation 15,867 (as of 2014)
Website woz.ch

WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, commonly shortened to WOZ or Wochenzeitung, is a Swiss German-language weekly newspaper, published in Zürich.

History and profile

Founded as WochenZeitung (WoZ) on 1 October 1981 in Zürich, WOZ soon became one of the most important newspapers of Switzerland, based on the experiences of the German Tageszeitung (taz) and the monthly student journal Das Konzept. It was considered as one of the special newspapers in German focusing on the German speaking residents as well as the travellers. As in the beginning, its staff was salaried to a unit wage, and WoZ was financially supported by Pro WoZ, a booster associations, since 1984. Beginning in 1995, the former WoZ and taz became joint editors of the German-language edition of Le Monde diplomatique as a supplement of the newspaper. Its content was influenced by the conjuncture of various current events of the Swiss alternative political movement, in a first phase by the youth movement of the 1980s. The low proportion of advertisements granted a certain independence, but the newspaper periodically was under-funded.A financial reboot in 2003 ended almost in bankruptcy due to increased costs. A reorganization, including the first editorial board in 2005, but without a chief editor, allowed for consolidation.[1]

WOZ claims to be the only independent, national newspaper in German-speaking Switzerland. It belongs neither to a political party nor an association or a media company, and guarantees a critical and enigmatic quality journalism. Besides its thirty editors it also has a large and broad network of free journalists. According to the readership study MACH Basic WOZ reaches 72,000 regular readers; the daily circulation occurs to 15,867 copies (WEMF 2014).[2]

Organisation

The highest gremium of the WOZ newspapier is the plenum of the cooperative infolink, the WOZ editor. The cooperative belongs to all employees who are employed by at least fifty percent. The cooperative assets, the equity of the WOZ, consists of one-time membership fees of current and former cooperative members. Responsible for the newspaper's content, however, is the editorial meeting. Decisions of greater consequence are decided by the plenary of the cooperative members. Many staff officials are also in one or more working groups or commissions within the self-managed company with over fifty employees and an annual turnover of around four million Swiss Francs. WOZ is supported by the ProWOZ society, whom's about 800 members annually at least double the subscription amount.[2]

See also

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Bernard Degen (2013-11-20). "WochenZeitung (WOZ)" (in German). Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
  2. 1 2 "Über uns" (in German). Die Wochenzeitung WOZ. Retrieved 2014-11-03.

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