Berliner Kurier

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Berliner Kurier
Berliner Kurier Logo 2020.svg
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Holger Friedrich
PublisherBerliner Verlag GmbH
Editor-in-chiefHans-Peter Buschheuer
Founded15 June 1949 (1949-06-15)
Language German
HeadquartersBerlin
Circulation 120,353 (Q1,2010)
Website berliner-kurier.de

The Berliner Kurier is a regional, daily tabloid published by the Berliner Verlag GmbH for the Berlin metropolitan area in Germany. The paper was owned by M. DuMont Schauberg. [1] and got sold in September 2019 to Holger Friedrichs.

In January 2015, following the Charlie Hebdo shooting in which the staff of a French satirical magazine were attacked after previously drawing the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the front page of the Berliner Kurier was a cartoon of Muhammad reading Charlie Hebdo in a bath of blood. [2]

During the first quarter of 2010 Berliner Kurier had a circulation of 120,353 copies. [3]

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References

  1. "DuMont Schauberg kauft Berliner Verlag". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 13 January 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  2. Colchester, Max (15 January 2015). "European Newspapers Show Support for Charlie Hebdo". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. "Berliner Kurier circulation (Q1/2010)". Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern (in German). Retrieved 4 July 2010.