Tessiner Zeitung

Tessiner Zeitung is a Swiss German-language regional newspaper, published in Locarno, Ticino.

Tessiner Zeitung

Type	Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)	Pietro Giugno
Founded	1 September 1908; 117 years ago (1908-09-01)
Language	German
Headquarters	Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Circulation	10,002 (2003)
ISSN	1660-9697
OCLC number	173873821
Website	tessinerzeitung.ch

Operations

Tessiner Zeitung was first published in Locarno on 1 September 1908 and was founded by Pietro Giugno.^[1][2] In May 1918 the paper was acquired by a group of journalists who published another newspaper Freie Zeitung.^[3]

The paper was published three times per week and had a circulation of 5,000 copies at the beginning of the 1990s.^[4] Then the paper began to be published weekly on Fridays. According to WEMF AG, the newspaper had a circulation of 10,002, as of 2003^[update].

See also

• List of newspapers in Switzerland