CHOwnership & classification
Founded: 1893
Ownership
Tages-Anzeiger is a Zurich daily launched in 1893 by German publisher Wilhelm Girardet and Swiss editor Fritz Walz. It is published by Tamedia, the publishing arm of TX Group AG (the company was called Tamedia until it was renamed TX Group in 2020). TX Group is a publicly listed media company on the SIX Swiss Exchange and is Switzerland's largest media group, but a controlling block of shares remains in the hands of the founding Coninx family.
Funding
It is financed commercially through advertising, print sales and digital subscriptions/paywall revenue, as part of Tamedia's national publishing portfolio. It receives no state or party funding.
Affiliation & stance
The paper has a non-partisan tradition and today is generally seen as centre to centre-left in its editorial outlook. Because it is owned by a privately controlled, commercially run, stock-listed company (TX Group, family-influenced via the Coninx family) with no party or state control, it is classified INDEPENDENT.
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Lean Left
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 452
83/100
Factual
82/100
Objective
838
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