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''WOZ Die Wochenzeitung'', (commonly abbreviated as ''WOZ'' or ''Wochenzeitung''), is a Swiss,
German-language German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a c ...
weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...
, published in Zürich (Switzerland).


History

''Die WochenZeitung'' (WoZ) first appeared on 1 October 1981. It was based on the experiences of the German ''
Die Tageszeitung ''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-own ...
'' (Taz) and the Zürich-based monthly student magazine ''Das Konzept''. Its creation was influenced by events of the Swiss alternative political movement in the first phase of the youth movement of the 1980s. Well-known journalists like
Niklaus Meienberg Niklaus Meienberg (11 May 1940 – 22 September 1993) was a Swiss writer and investigative journalist. Meienberg lived in Zürich and published 14 books in his lifetime. His works were primarily about recent Swiss history. His texts are used ...
or
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but also novelists such as
Max Frisch Max Rudolf Frisch (; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant featur ...
and
Otto F. Walter Otto F. Walter (5 June 1928 born as ''Otto Friedrich Walter'' – 24 September 1994) was a Swiss publisher (Walter Verlag), author and novelist, which is well known in the German language countries. Otto Friedrich Walter was the younger brothe ...
regularly wrote for the paper. In 1987 ''WOZ'' started using
Gender-neutral language Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids bias towards a particular sex or gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions, formation of phrases in a c ...
. Since 1995, the ''WOZ'' as well as the ''TAZ'' add a German-language edition of the ''
Le Monde diplomatique ''Le Monde diplomatique'' (meaning "The Diplomatic World" in French) is a French monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The publication is owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary com ...
'' as a supplement to the newspaper. Most of the articles of the monthly German ''Le Monde diplomatique'' are translations from articles originally written for the French edition. Since the beginning, all employees have been remunerated according to the principle of equality: A uniform wage of currently 5400 Swiss Francs is being paid. The low proportion of advertisements granted the newspaper a certain independence, but the newspaper was periodically under-funded. Following a reboot in 2003, the newspaper ended in near bankruptcy due to increased costs, but a reorganization in 2005, which included changing the whole original editorial board and the decision to not have a chief editor, ultimately allowed the publication to continue. In recent years the readership has been growing steadily and the paper has achieved financial stability and raised wages.


Organization and Profile

The cooperative belongs to all employees who are employed by at least half time. The equity of the ''WOZ'' consists of one-time membership fees of current and former cooperative members. The editorial meeting is responsible for newspaper content. Decisions of greater consequence are decided by the plenary of the cooperative members. Many staff officials are in one or more working groups or commissions within the company. The company has over fifty employees and an annual turnover of around five million Swiss Francs. Since 1984 ''WOZ'' has been supported by the ''ProWOZ'' society, whose members more than double the subscription bases. ''WOZ'' claims to be the only independent national newspaper in German-speaking Switzerland: it doesn't belong to either a political party, association or media company, and aims to deliver critical high-quality journalism. In addition to its thirty editors, it also has a broad network of freelance journalists. According to the readership study MACH Basic, ''WOZ'' reaches 101,000 regular readers with a daily circulation of 17,103 copies (WEMF 2017). ''WOZ'' was the highest ranked media product in terms of quality of coverage among magazines, weeklys and Sunday newspapers in Switzerland in independent 2018 and 2020 studies.


See also

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Rotpunktverlag Rotpunktverlag is a Swiss publishing house, headquartered at ''Hohlstrasse 86A'', 8004 Zürich, Switzerland. Founded in 1976 in Zürich, it is specialized in political history. History and publishing fields The publishing house was founded in 19 ...


Literature

* Carmen Berchtold, Jürg Fischer, Constantin Seibt (texts) and Gertrud Vogler (photography): ''Das Buch Monster: 100 Fälle aus der Praxis der Familie Monster''. WoZ, Zürich 1997, . *Stefan Howald: ''Links und bündig. Eine alternative Mediengeschichte.'' Rotpunktverlag, Zürich 2018. .


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