Berliner Morgenpost

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Berliner Morgenpost
Berliner Morgenpost front page.png
The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Funke Mediengruppe
EditorCarsten Erdmann
Founded1898;127 years ago (1898)
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Website www.morgenpost.de OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapers.

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History and profile

Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959 and sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013. [1] In 2009, it had a circulation of 145,556 and an estimated 322,000 readers. [2] The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann. [3]

In 2012, it was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the regional newspaper category by the European Newspapers Congress. [4]

Editors-in-chief

References

  1. Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
  3. Berliner Morgenpost Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine at axelspringer.de
  4. "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  5. Korenke, Tobias (2 October 2023). "BERLINER MORGENPOST bekommt neuen Chefredakteur: Der Digitalexperte Peter Schink wechselt von t-online zu FUNKE" [BERLINER MORGENPOST gets new editor-in-chief: Digital expert Peter Schink moves from t-online to FUNKE]. Funke Mediengruppe (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.