Bern's oldest newspaper disappears

Daily newspapers With the Burgdorfer Tagblatt, founded in 1831, the oldest newspaper in the Canton of Berne disappears as an independent publication. It will be merged with the Aemme-Zytig at the beginning of 2005.Daily newspapers With the Burgdorfer Tagblatt, founded in 1831, the oldest newspaper in the Canton of Berne disappears as an independent publication. It will be merged with the Aemme-Zytig at the beginning of 2005. The operating company, in which the Berner Zeitung holds a 30 percent stake, is liquidated. In Burgdorf and Oberburg, the merged newspaper will be called Burgdorfer Tagblatt with the subtitle Aemme-Zytig, and vice versa in the rest of the region. Aemme-Zytig's current circulation of 31300 copies will not be increased.