New "meta portal" planned for regional newspapers
Following the announcement by Tamedia and Basler Zeitung Medien that they would launch an online network, a consortium of other publishing houses is going on the offensive. Among the initiators are the NZZ Group and the Mittelland-Zeitung.
After Tamedia and Basler Zeitung Medien announced the launch of an online network, a group of other publishing houses is now going on the offensive. Among the initiators are the NZZ Group and the Mittelland-Zeitung. An Internet portal is planned where the content of various regional newspapers will be bundled, as Persoenlich.com reported on Thursday. To this end, a working group has been set up to drive forward the online activities. The working group includes Südostschweiz publisher Hanspeter Lebrument, Peter Wanner and Christine Rennhard from the Mittelland-Zeitung, Thedi Gut from the Zürcher Landzeitungen and Beat Lauber from Freie Presse Holding, which represents the NZZ titles St. Galler Tagblatt and Neue Luzerner Zeitung. The plan is to publish the best articles from the affiliated regional newspapers on the as yet unnamed online portal. A small editorial team of five to ten people will collect the content and prepare it for the portal. The individual regional editorial teams would provide support. However, the meta-portal is not intended to replace the websites of the various newspapers, but merely to supplement them.
It is still unclear which newspapers will be connected to the new online network, as well as whether the project will be realized at all - this is to be decided in mid-December.
It is still unclear which newspapers will be connected to the new online network, as well as whether the project will be realized at all - this is to be decided in mid-December.
