Tages-Anzeiger

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Tages-Anzeiger, also abbreviated Tagi or TA, is a German language Swiss national daily newspaper based in Zürich. Among newspapers in Switzerland, it has one of the largest circulations, reaching around 230,000 readers. The Tages-Anzeiger was first published in 1893. Although politically and economically independent, the TA's political stance is generally characterized as being left of the center and government friendly. On Saturdays the newspaper includes the supplement Das Magazin. The newspaper is owned by Tamedia and Peter Hartmeier is its editor.

The newspaper consists of a number of sections, the first of which is dedicated to domestic and international news. The second features regional news while the third covers Sport. The fourth and fifth are dedicated to economic news and culture respectively. Occasionally, special sections are added to cover major events such as elections.

[edit] Das Magazin

Das Magazin - in English, "the magazine" - is a supplement to the Saturday edition of the Tages-Anzeiger. Added in 1970, it mainly features comments and reports on politics and culture. In 2005 Das Magazin was added to two other newspapers, the Basler Zeitung and the Berner Zeitung, reaching around 730,000 readers each weekend (approximately ten percent of the Swiss population).

In its early years, Das Magazin featured articles by writers such as Niklaus Meienberg, Peter Bichsel and Laure Wyss, and, as a bastion of journalistic enlightenment in the 1970s, it heavily defined cultural and political discourse in Switzerland.

Das Magazin was patterned after the New York Times Magazine and employs a style and language of its own. The magazine's main competitor is the weekly Weltwoche magazine.

In 2005/2006 "das Magazin" published the "Schweizer Bibliothek"--a compilation of twenty Books, written by twenty of the 20th century's most important Swiss writers (e.g. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Glauser, Max Frisch, Adolf Muschg, Fleur Jaeggy).