Kurier

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Austrian daily newspaper

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Field	Value
name	Kurier
logo	Kurier_Logo.svg
image	Kurier 2012.jpg
caption	Front page of Kurier, 7 November 2012
type	Daily newspaper
format	Berliner
owners	Printmedienbeteiligungsgesellschaft
Funke Mediengruppe
publisher	Kurier-Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH
editor	Martina Salomon
founded
political_position	Centrism
Liberalism
Pro-Europeanism
headquarters	Vienna, Austria
publishing_country	Austria
circulation	103,000 (2023)
ISSN	1563-5058
eISSN	2308-0973
oclc	849575488
website
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Kurier is a German-language daily newspaper based in Vienna, Austria. In 2023, it had an edition of approximately 103,000 copies.

History and profile

Kurier was founded as Wiener Kurier by the United States Forces in Austria (USFA) in 1945, during the Allied occupation after World War II. In 1954 the paper was acquired and re-established by Ludwig Polsterer as Neuer Kurier (New Kurier).

Funke Mediengruppe holds 49% of the paper. The company also partly owns Kronen Zeitung. The publisher of Kurier is Kurier-Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH. Kurier is based in Vienna.

Circulation

Kurier was the eighteenth largest newspaper worldwide with a circulation of 443,000 copies in the late 1980s. It was the third best-selling Austrian newspaper in 1993 with a circulation of 390,000 copies.

Kurier sold 263,000 copies in 2001. It was the third best selling Austrian newspaper in 2002 with a circulation of 252,000 copies. The daily had a circulation of 254,000 copies in 2004. Its circulation in 2005 was 172,000 copies. The circulation of the paper was 385,000 copies in 2013.

Editor-in-Chiefs

Hans Dichand, 1955–1958
Hugo Portisch, 1958–1967
Eberhard Strohal, 1967–1973
Hubert Feichtlbauer, 1973–1975
Gerd Bacher, 12 October 1975 – 4 November 1975
Karl Löbl, 1975–1979
Gerd Leitgeb, 1979–1986
Günter Wessig, 1986–1988
Franz Ferdinand Wolf, 1988–1993
Peter Rabl, 1993–2005
Christoph Kotanko, 2005 – 31 July 2010
Helmut Brandstätter, 2010–2018; 2013
Martina Salomon, since 1 October 2018

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Paul C. Murschetz. (25 January 2014). "State Aid for Newspapers: Theories, Cases, Actions". Springer Science & Business Media.
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