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Heute
Front page from a 2 April 2008 edition
TypeFree daily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Ringier
EditorDaniel Steil
Founded15 May 2006; 17 years ago (2006-05-15)
Political alignmentNeutral
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication30 May 2008; 15 years ago (2008-05-30)
HeadquartersZurich
Circulation200,000
OCLC number637961425
WebsiteFormerly www.heuteonline.ch, now defunct

Heute (literally "Today") was a Swiss German-language free daily newspaper, published between 2006 and 2008 by Ringier in Zurich.

History and operations

Published in tabloid format, Heute was first published on 15 May 2006. It was an afternoon paper.[1]

The paper was the second 'Pendlerzeitung (commuter newspaper) in Switzerland, after the morning newspaper 20 Minuten, being distributed in the evenings, from approximately 3 pm.

With a claimed initial print run of 200,000, the newspaper was said to have been one of the most popular daily newspapers in Switzerland according to the publisher's own statistics.

The paper ceased publication with a final edition on 30 May 2008. As from 2 June 2008 Heute was replaced by another free newspaper Blick am Abend.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Piet Bakker (2013). "The life cycle of a free newspaper business model in newspaper-rich markets". Journalistica (1). doi:10.7146/JOURNALISTICA.V7I1.15802.

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