The ''Berliner Kurier'' is a regional, daily
tabloid published by the ''Berliner Verlag GmbH'' for the
Berlin
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metropolitan area
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in
Germany
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. The paper was owned by
M. DuMont Schauberg. and got sold in September 2019 to Holger Friedrichs.
In January 2015, following the
''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting in which the staff of a French satirical magazine were attacked after previously drawing the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
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, the front page of the ''Berliner Kurier'' was a cartoon of Muhammad reading ''
Charlie Hebdo
''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...
'' in a bath of blood.
During the first quarter of 2010 ''Berliner Kurier'' had a circulation of 120,353 copies.
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1949 establishments in Germany
Daily newspapers published in Germany
German-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Berlin
Newspapers established in 1949
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