Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , also called the FAZ , is, with the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Welt, one of three plus famous daily newspapers German. Its edition of Sunday is named Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . Distributed in 148 countries, the FAZ is the German daily newspaper more diffused throughout the world (approximately 1 million readers per day).

Leading line

Independent of any political party, the daily newspaper is of tendency conservative and liberal. It has its own network of correspondents (one of largest in the world). Its leading line is not defined by a director but by college of 5 persons in charge. Traditionally, like the old formulas of the World in France, the One of the FAZ does not present photography to the notable following exceptions:

October 4th 1990: Photograph of the Reichstag to Berlin at the time of the day of the German Reunification
September 12th 2001: Photographs of the World Trade Center to New York and of the US president George W. Bush at the time of the terrorist attack of Al-Qaida.
April 4th 2005: Photograph of the Pope Jean-Paul II at the time of his death
April 20th 2005: Photograph of the new German pope Benoit XVI.

History

The first number of the FAZ appears on November 1st 1949. The newspaper is then directed by Erich Welter and is composed of a team of journalists resulting from the Frankfurter Zeitung.

The newspaper introduces into its columns the 1999 the reform of the German language of 1996 but gives up it one year later asserting the fact that this one has ambiguities. Because of its traditional sobriety of presentation, the introduction of the color into the newspaper was particularly disputed by its readers. Today, an electronic version of the FAZ is available on the site of the newspaper.

See too

Internal bonds

List of newspapers and magazines
List of the German daily newspapers

External bonds

Site of the newspaper

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