NEWS (Austrian magazine)

News magazine was established by Helmut and Wolfgang Fellner and was first published in October 1992.^[2][3][4] The Verlagsgruppe News is the publisher of the magazine which is published weekly.^[5][6] The Fellner brothers sold the some shares of the company to Gruner + Jahr,^[7][8] a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.^[9] In 2016 Gruner + Jahr sold its shares to the Verlagsgruppe News, known as VGN.^[10]

News covers entertainment and lifestyle topics^[11] as well as news on current affairs, politics and culture.^[12]

In the 1990s Senta Ziegler served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.^[13] Until 2008 Andreas Weber was the editor-in-chief of the weekly.^[5] Then Atha Athanasiadis served as the editor-in-chief of the News magazine from 2008 to February 2010.^[14] As of 2010 the editor-in-chief of the magazine was Peter Pelinka who was appointed to the post in February that year.^[15] Corinna Milborn and Silvia Meister were the deputy editors of the weekly.^[15]

News sold more than 200,000 copies in 1993.^[4] The market share of the magazine was 19.3% in 2000.^[16] The magazine had a circulation of 254,000 copies in 2003.^[6] Its readership in 2005 was about 14%, making it the first in its category.^[17] In 2007 the magazine sold 285,000 copies.^[18]

For the first half of 2008 the magazine had a circulation of 125,710 copies.^[19] It was the third best-selling magazine in the country in 2008.^[20] News sold 215,000 copies in 2010.^[21] In 2012 its circulation was 125.751 copies,^[7] and it was 135,875 copies in the first half of 2013.^[12]

In June 2005, News was fined by an Austrian court following its publication of Finance Minister Karl Heinz Grasser's photos kissing Fiona Swarovski, an heiress of the Swarovski crystal dynasty.^[22]

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