Luxemburger Wort

Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Saint-Paul Luxembourg S.A.
Founded 23 March 1848
Political alignment Catholic
Language German
Headquarters 2, rue Christophe Plantin, Luxembourg City
Circulation 66,158 (2013)
Website www.wort.lu

Luxemburger Wort is a German language Luxembourgish daily newspaper.

History and profile

Luxemburger Wort has been published since 1848.[1] The paper was founded just three days after press censorship was abolished. The newspaper is mainly written in German, but includes small sections in both Luxemburgish and French.[1] The paper is part of the Saint-Paul Luxembourg S.A.[2] The paper is owned by the archbishopric and has a strong Catholic leaning.[3]

In the period of 1995–1996 Luxemburger Wort had a circulation of 85,000 copies, making it the best-selling paper in the country.[4] The circulation of the paper was 83,739 copies in 2003.[2] The paper had a circulation of almost 70,000 copies a day and a daily readership of more than 180,000 (print and e-paper) in 2007,[5] making it Luxembourg's most popular newspaper by both counts.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Media". Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries". Dutch Media Authority. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Romain Kohn (2003). "Luxembourg". In Ana Karlsreiter. Media in Multilingual Societies. Freedom and Responsibility. Vienna: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce. SAGE Publications. 24 September 1998. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4462-6524-6. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "d'Wort" (PDF). Saint-Paul Luxembourg. 2007. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
  6. ↑ "Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union". European Commission. 17 January 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2007.

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