Profil (magazine)

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profil
Logo profil magazine.svg
EditorAnna Thalhammer
Categories News magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation First half of 2013 was 71,033 copies
Publisher NEWS
First issue7 September 1970;53 years ago (1970-09-07)
Company NEWS
Country Austria
Based in Vienna
Language German
Website www.profil.at
ISSN 1022-2111

Profil, (stylized in all lowercase) is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna. It was founded as a monthly magazine and has been in circulation since 1970. The magazine is sometimes considered the Austrian counterpart to Der Spiegel . [1] [2] In 2008 the magazine was described as the “most important Austrian news magazine”. [3]

Contents

History and profile

profil was founded in 1970 [4] by Oscar Bronner, [5] [6] who also founded the magazine trend and the daily newspaper Der Standard . [7] [8] The magazine is headquartered in Vienna. [5] [9]

The first edition of profil came out as a monthly on 7 September 1970. Starting in October 1972, it was published every two weeks and from January 1974 every week. [10] In 2001 profil became part of the publishing company NEWS. [5] In 1975 business magazine, ecco , merged with profil. [8]

profil includes sections for Austria, abroad, economy, society, science, and culture. Glosses, caricatures, and letters to the editor are also published. In the mid-1980s it had an independent and liberal leaning. [11] In the 2000s the magazine had a left liberal political stance. [12] It targets Austria's intelligentsia. [8] Both profil and trend initiated investigative journalism in the country. [8] It was profil which revealed the Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president. [13] [14] Investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin served as the political editor of profil. [15] [16] He uncovered the story about Kurt Waldheim's Nazi connection. [16]

Christian Rainer succeeded Josef Votzi as publisher and editor-in-chief in 1998. [6] The chief editorial staff consisted of Sven Gächter, Stefan Janny, and Herbert Lackner.

Restructuring 2022/2023

In December 2022 it was announced that Richard Grasl would also become profile managing director in addition to his journalistic work for the Kurier. [17] On the same day it was announced that Christian Rainer would end his role as editor-in-chief and publisher of Profil. [18] Due to Grasl's appointment, the editorial team felt compelled to publicly emphasize the magazine's "untouchable journalistic independence". [19] At the same time, management reported three profile editors to the works council for termination. [20]

Editorial GmbH led by Grasl became the new publisher in January 2023. The new editor-in-chief has been Anna Thalhammer [21] since March 1, 2023. [22] [23]

The economics department head and deputy editor-in-chief Michael Nikbakhsh also left the magazine in this context. He was offered the opportunity to run Kurier and Profil's planned investigative academy as a self-employed person. [24] Even before the academy started, Nikbakhsh “irrevocably” resigned from the leadership in February 2023. He developed a program for the academy and presented it to Richard Grasl, Martina Salomon and Anna Thalhammer at a meeting. According to Nikbakhsh, they had begun “in all seriousness” to classify intended speakers “according to suspected or supposed party-political affiliation”. Salomon explained that it was important to her that “not only leftists” appeared. Those mentioned contradict Nikbakhsh's account. [25]

Circulation

The circulation of profil was 72,000 copies in 1985. [11] In 1993, the magazine had a circulation of more than 100,000 copies. [26]

The weekly had a circulation of 76,000 copies in 2003 and 78,000 copies in the first quarter of 2004. [10] In 2006, the magazine had a readership of 6%, being second to NEWS magazine . [27] The circulation of the magazine was 251,000 copies in 2007. [28] Its circulation for the first half of 2008 was 59,124 copies. [29] The 2010 circulation of profil was 93,000 copies. [30] The circulation of the magazine during the first half of 2013 was down to 71,033 copies. [31]

See also

List of magazines in Austria

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  17. ↑ ""Kurier"-Vize Richard Grasl wird zusätzlich "Profil"-Geschäftsführer, Christian Rainer gibt Chefredaktion ab". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  18. ↑ "Christian Rainer gibt Chefredaktion des "Profil" ab". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  19. ↑ ""Profil"-Redaktion betont nach Grasl-Bestellung "unantastbare journalistische Unabhängigkeit"". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  20. ↑ "Anna, das Profil hamma". www.falter.at. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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  22. ↑ "In eigener Sache". profil.at (in Austrian German). 26 April 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
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