Woz celebrates 40-year anniversary with special issue
The weekly Woz celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday with a special edition. In its 715th issue, the left-wing Zurich paper devoted itself primarily to the future.
The future does not have the best reputation at present, but giving up is not an option, wrote the Woz in the current issue. "For there to be anything at all like a future worth living in, there needs to be leaps forward in thought." The first bundle of the newspaper was devoted entirely to the future, only the second contained news from the present.
With the anniversary edition, the Woz introduced a linguistic innovation: It now uses the colon in spelling to ensure gender-neutral language. With this decision, the newspaper's employees want to take better account of gender identities. In doing so, the newspaper said goodbye to the indented I, which it was the first newspaper in Switzerland to introduce in its columns in 1983.
The Woz was founded in 1981. The first regular issue appeared on October 1. The newspaper was a product of the youth movement at the time and it wanted to set counterpoints to the reports in the established newspapers. Disparagingly laughed at in the beginning, the Woz to become a serious medium with a growing circulation. Today, according to its own information, it is the largest independent left-wing newspaper in Switzerland, with a growing circulation. (SDA)
