Berliner Morgenpost

German newspaper

Berliner Morgenpost
The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Funke Mediengruppe
Editor	Carsten Erdmann
Founded	1898; 126 years ago (1898)
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany
Website	www.morgenpost.de

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

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

It was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.^[4]

Editor-in-chiefs

1952–1953: Wilhelm Schulze
1953–1959: Helmut Meyer-Dietrich
1960–1972: Heinz Köster
1973–1976:Walter Brückmann
1976–1978: Hans-Werner Marquardt
1978–1981: Wolfgang Kryszohn
1981–1987: Johannes Otto
1988–1996: Bruno Waltert
1996–1999: Peter Philipps
1999–2002::Herbert Wessels
2002: Wolfram Weimer
2003–2004: Jan-Eric Peters
2004–2018: Carsten Erdmann
2018–present: Christine Richter

References

^ Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
^ Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
^ Berliner Morgenpost Archived 24 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine at axelspringer.de
^ "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.