Freie Presse (Saxony)

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Freie Presse
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Sachsens Größte Zeitung
Saxony's Largest Newspaper
Type Daily newspaper
FormatNordisch
PublisherChemnitzer Verlag
Founded1 January 1963;60 years ago (1 January 1963)
LanguageGerman
Headquarters Chemnitz
Circulation 213,845 (2019)
Website www.freiepresse.de OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Freie Presse (German for Free Press) is a regional daily newspaper in the Chemnitz region, Germany.

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History and profile

Freie Presse was first published in 1963. The paper is published by the Chemnitzer Verlag in Nordisch format [1] and has its headquarters in Chemnitz. [2] [3]

Prior to German reunification, the paper was the largest regional daily newspaper in East Germany, with a circulation of 663,700. During the third quarter of 1992 the circulation of Freie Presse was 522,000 copies. [2] In 2001 the paper had a circulation of 401,000 copies. [1] Its 2002 circulation was 376,681 copies. [4]

Freie Presse was the best-selling newspaper in Saxony with a circulation of 277,221 copies in the second quarter of 2011, according to IVW. [5] In the fourth quarter of 2019 the paper had a circulation of 213,845 copies. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Georg Hellack (1992). "Press, Radio and Television in the Federal Republic of Germany" (Report). Inter Nationes. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  3. Wayne C. Thompson (2014). Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2014. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 279. ISBN   978-1-4758-1224-4.
  4. David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Dutch Media Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  5. "Werbeträgerdaten - Presseerzeugnisse". Daten. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  6. "Werbeträgerdaten - Presseerzeugnisse". Daten. Retrieved 14 February 2020.