Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | LR Medienverlag und Druckerei GmbH |
Founded | 20 May 1946 |
Language | German |
Headquarters | Cottbus, Germany |
OCLC number | 269184555 |
Website | Official website |
Lausitzer Rundschau (German : Lusatian review) is a daily regional newspaper published in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany. It has been in circulation since 1946.
Lausitzer Rundschau was founded in Bautzen and first published with a cover price of 15 pfennigs, on 20 May 1946. [1] It was a regional media outlet of the East German ruling party, Socialist Unity Party, and the editor-in-chief was Paula Acker. [2] In 1952 the offices of the paper moved to Görlitz, the largest town in the Upper Lusatia region. [1] The paper consisted of eight pages. [1] On 5 August 1952 the paper moved to its current headquarters in Cottbus. [1] The paper was owned by the Socialist Unity Party before German reunification. [3] [4] In the mid-1950s Lausitzer Rundschau supported bilingual education in East Germany. [5] The paper was called Lügenrudi (German: Liar Tom) when it was published in East Germany. [4]
Following the unification the daily became part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. [3] [6] [7] The company also owned other newspapers, including Saarbrücker Zeitung . [8] [9]
As of 2012 Lausitzer Rundschau was published in tabloid format by a subsidiary of the Saarbrücker Zeitung Group, [10] [11] LR Medienverlag und Druckerei GmbH. [12] In September 2012 the majority share of Saarbrücker Zeitung Group was acquired by Rheinische Post Mediengruppe. [13] In April 2018 the LR Medienverlag und Druckerei GmbH was sold to the Ulm-based company Neue Pressegesellschaft which is part of the Ebner Group. [14]
The paper serves the states of Brandenburg and Saxony [10] and has 13 editions. [7] [15] Since 2 March 2006 LR-Woche, a free weekly tabloid, has been delivered with the paper. [16]
The daily publishes extensive reports on neo-nazi activity in the region. [10] The offices of Lausitzer Rundschau has been target for the attacks by right-wing extremists in Lübbenau and Spremberg. [10] [17]
In 2000 Simone Wendler became chief reporter who was awarded for her article entitled "graft and corruption in Cottbus?".
The circulation of Lausitzer Rundschau was 100,000 copies in January 1954. [1] In the second quarter of 2003 the paper sold 136,259 copies. [8]
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