Nürnberger Nachrichten

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Nürnberger Nachrichten
Type	Regional daily newspaper
Format

Owner
Publisher	Verlag Nürnberger Presse Druckhaus Nürnberg GmbH & Co.
Editor	Bruno Schnell, Nürnberg
Editor-in-Chief	Heinz-Joachim Hauck and Wolfgang Schmieg
Founded	October 11, 1945
Language	German
Headquarters	Nuremberg
Circulation	299,774

Website: www.nuernberger-nachrichten.de

The Nürnberger Nachrichten (NN) was originally a local daily in the Nuremberg-Erlangen-Fürth area. With its regional editions it now covers the whole of Middle Franconia and parts of Upper Franconia and the Upper Palatinate. With a total circulation of, currently, about 300,000, it is one of Germany's larger regional newspapers. The Nürnberger Zeitung belongs to the same group but is editorially independent.

[edit] History

The Nürnberger Nachrichten (NN) was first published on October 11, 1945. Its founder, Joseph E. Drexel, was granted licence No. 3 for newspaper publication by the occupying power, the American military government in Bavaria. At first, the NN was printed in Zirndorf because it was not possible to find an intact printing plant in Nuremberg, owing to the war damage. In 1945/46 the paper only came out twice a week; from Autumn 1946 to 1949 that increased to three times a week, and after that four times a week. In Autumn 1949, the publishers moved to Nuremberg. It was not until 16 November 1962 that the paper came out six times a week.