The Cologne-based media group DuMont wants to sell its regional Newspapers. A message to the industry magazine “horizon”, it was confirmed from publishing circles.
The Cologne-based media group DuMont wants to sell its regional Newspapers.
The Cologne-based media house DuMont has apparently commissioned a Munich-based company in order to find one or multiple buyers for its regional Newspapers. The publisher did not want to confirm the message so far – but also not to deny. From the industry circles, it means you know from the plans of the company for the sale of the regional Newspapers. To DuMont, the “Kölner stadtanzeiger” and the “Express” and the “Berliner Zeitung” and “Hamburger Morgenpost”.
With a sale of the Newspapers would repel Dumont one of its three business segments. Left the area of Business Information, including the version of the Federal Gazette, and the Online Marketing remained.
problems, especially in the tabloid media
The editions of the Newspapers have been declining for years. Especially the tabloid media as the “Express” and the “Hamburger Morgenpost” have economic difficulties. Other Newspapers such as the “mitteldeutsche Zeitung” in Halle and the “Kölner stadtanzeiger” to make a profit.
For some employees in Cologne, the step does not come as a surprise: the company’s Newspapers have played in business at least since the death of publisher Alfred Neven DuMont almost four years ago, a smaller and smaller role. The German Association of journalists called on the publisher to stop the planned sale and said it was a “publisher’s revelation are.”
the publisher Alfred Neven DuMont 31.05.2015 Atlas |Germany |Cologne
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