Berliner Taz will soon only be published digitally on weekdays
Starting in October 2025, Berlin's *Taz* will be the first national daily newspaper in Germany to completely discontinue its print editions on weekdays. From Monday through Friday, the newspaper will then be published exclusively as an e-paper.
Only for the weekly newspaper Wochentaz a print edition is still planned. Managing Director Aline Lüllmann and Co-Managing Director Andreas Marggraf spoke on Saturday in Berlin of an "important step towards the journalistic future of the Taz".
The last print edition of the weekday Taz is to be published on October 17, 2025, as announced at the general meeting of the taz Verlagsgenossenschaft.
Since 2018, the Taz the strategic goal of "compensating for the decline in the traditional print subscription business and increasing reader reach in the process".
According to the press release, in addition to the e-paper, the Taz-app will be expanded. The newspaper's website is also set to undergo a comprehensive relaunch as early as mid-October 2024.
"The Taz is not in crisis. We are acting from a position of strength," emphasized editors-in-chief Barbara Junge and Ulrike Winkelmann. "We have long known that Taz-journalism works on all channels, digital as well as print."
The technological upheavals could "even unleash forces for even more journalism, so that the Taz remains the most important left-wing, progressive voice in the German media landscape," both explained. The Taz has been published as a national daily newspaper since 1979. (SDA/swi)
