The ''Göttinger Tageblatt'' is the single printed local daily newspaper to circulate in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

in the south of the state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

in Germany. The coverage area of the paper includes the city of

, the surrounding county and the cities of

Northeim Northeim (; nds, Nuurten) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in 800 in a document r ...

and

Osterode am Harz Osterode am Harz, often simply called Osterode (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Ostroe''), is a town in south-eastern Lower Saxony, Niedersachsen on the south-western edge of the Harz mountains. It was the seat of government of the Landkr ...

Background

It was founded in 1889. Since

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

it has become increasingly nationalist and it supported the

Nazi movement Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

even before it came to power in 1933. The Göttinger Tageblatt itself published a critical examination of this part of its history for the 125 years celebration:
Göttinger Tageblatt during National Socialism
Since 1973 it is part of the Madsack publishing group from the capital city of the state of Lower Saxony,

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

. National and statewide issues are taken from Madsack's Hanover daily ''

Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ''Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (abbreviated HAZ) is a German newspaper with a circulation of 158,000 (as of 2009) and a widespread resonance all over Germany. It is distributed in Hanover and in all Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: ...

'' since then, while the editorial department of the ''Göttinger Tageblatt'' confines itself on local affairs only.

Alternatives

Other sources of local news for the people of Göttingen are provided by the local Stadtradio Göttingen, the HNA, a newspaper based in

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with local editions for

and

Hann. Münden Hann. Münden (short for Hannoversch Münden) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. Münden lies in the district of Göttingen (district), Göttingen at the confluence of the Fulda River, Fulda and Werra rivers, which join to form the Weser. It ha ...

, and the regional newscasts of the radio stations

NDR 1 Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; ''Northern German Broadcasting'') is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, M ...

, Hitradio Antenne Niedersachsen and FFN radio:
local news from HNA regional newspaper

local news from Stadtradio Göttingen
There have also been efforts towards establishing local periodicals as alternative local news sources in the past years, but until now they all failed because of lack of revenue and because of onesided left wing and alternative editorial alignments so that these papers haven't been able to reach sufficient acceptance and therefore circulations. The local radio station, Stadradio Göttingen, has been established in 1997. It is indirectly founded by the state of Lower Saxony. It broadcasts local news bulletins several times a day but its audience is quite low due to a considerable lack of professionalism.

References

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