St. Galler Tagblatt celebrates its 175th birthday
On Saturday, the St. Galler Tagblatt celebrated its 175th anniversary with a special edition titled «The Newspaper of Eastern Switzerland.» The day before, the newspaper, which is part of the NZZ Group, had announced the elimination of ten jobs as a cost-cutting measure.
"The Tagblatt brand is firmly anchored in the region and beyond and stands for reliability," wrote Daniel Ehrat, General Manager of Tagblatt Medien, in an interview in the special supplement. The first edition of the St. Galler Tagblatt was published on January 2, 1839, as can be seen from an article in the supplement. Among other things, it reported on a house fire in the "Bleichele" district of St. Gallen and a nationalist-patriotic uprising in the suburbs of Liège. According to Basel historian Mischa Suter, the newspaper landscape at the time was in some ways comparable to today's media world. It was characterized by a colourful babble of voices, constant copying of each other and loud polemics.
Today, the St. Galler Tagblatt, the Thurgauer Zeitung, the Appenzeller Zeitung, the Wiler Zeitung, the Toggenburger Tagblatt, the Rheintaler, the Werdenberger and Obertoggenburger and the Ostschweiz am Sonntag are all part of Tagblatt Medien.
