Berliner Morgenpost

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Berliner Morgenpost
The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Funke Mediengruppe
EditorCarsten Erdmann
Founded1898; 127 years ago (1898)
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Websitewww.morgenpost.de Edit this at Wikidata

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapers.

History and profile

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Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959 and sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013.[1] In 2009, it had a circulation of 145,556 and an estimated 322,000 readers.[2] The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann.[3]

In 2012, it was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the regional newspaper category by the European Newspapers Congress.[4]

Editors-in-chief

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References

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  1. ^ Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. ^ Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
  3. ^ Berliner Morgenpost Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine at axelspringer.de
  4. ^ "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  5. ^ Korenke, Tobias (2 October 2023). "BERLINER MORGENPOST bekommt neuen Chefredakteur: Der Digitalexperte Peter Schink wechselt von t-online zu FUNKE" [BERLINER MORGENPOST gets new editor-in-chief: Digital expert Peter Schink moves from t-online to FUNKE]. Funke Mediengruppe (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.
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