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

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) 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. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

in the south of the state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

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

, the surrounding county and the cities of

Northeim Northeim (; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the Northeim (district), district of Northeim, with a population of 30,118 as of 31 December 2023. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in ...

and

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

Background

It was founded in 1889. Since

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

it has become increasingly nationalist and it supported the Nazi movement 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 ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

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

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

with local editions for

and Hann. Münden, and the regional newscasts of the radio stations NDR 1, 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. For many years the Göttinger Presse was a rival newspaper to the Tageblatt, and didn't suffer from the Tageblatt's Nazi association, but it ceased publication sometime in the 1950s (precise reference needed!).

References

1889 establishments in Germany Newspapers established in 1889 Daily newspapers published in Germany German-language newspapers Mass media in Göttingen {{Germany-newspaper-stub