I was speaking yesterday at the Austrian Newspaper Publisher Association annual meeting and a few minutes after my presentation I saw in the streets the first copies of an extra edition of the Kronen Zeitung, one of the most widely read dailies per capita in the world with almost 3 million readers in a country of just over 8 million.
The black and white picture of Hans Dichand (89) was in the front page just with these dates 1921-2010.
Today’s edition keeps the black and white picture.
I don’t know about the reasons because this is a full color paper.
And the picture is not a very one either.
Better is the coverage in their website where you can lite a virtual candle in his memory, and more than 1.800 people have done it, leaving behind their names and email.
Dichand’s paper has a very poor design but is full of popular content presented in a very small format (Time magazine size), but as always happens with successful newspapers, Kronen Zeitung is an opinionated, newspaper, strong on populist campaigns, read by the rich and the poor, respected and feared by politicians and businessmen.
Readers like it, and today’s edition (1 euro) with 88 pages and glossy magazine of 68 pages shows that print media is well alive in Austria.
Tags: Austria, Hans Dichand, Kronen Zeitung