Regional publishers cooperate for News1.ch
«The six regional publishers that are jointly launching a new online portal are investing 'several 100,000 francs.» What the participating media companies—Meier + Cie, Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG, St. Galler Tagblatt AG, AZ Medien AG, Südostschweiz Medien AG, and Zürich Land Medien AG—have in common is that none of them belong to the Tamedia media group.
The six regional publishers who are launching a new online portal together are investing "several 100,000 francs", as Norbert Neininger, Editor-in-Chief of Schaffhauser Nachrichten, explained in his own paper. In addition to his Meier + Cie AG, Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG, St. Galler Tagblatt AG, AZ Medien AG (Mittelland Zeitung), Südostschweiz Medien AG and Zürich Land Medien AG (Zürichsee Zeitung, Zürcher Oberländer, Zürcher Unterländer) have jointly founded a public limited company to launch the News1.ch portal. It is due to start operations in October and will be continuously expanded in the following months.
The return on investment will come from online advertising; the investment phase should be completed after just one year, Neininger continued. News1.ch will be managed by Sam Müller, the former head of online media at Mittelland-Zeitung. The content will consist of "the best from the participating media companies", Neininger continued.
The focus is on regional and local news. Multimedia content is bundled, as the partner publishers are all active in multimedia and have newspaper, Internet, radio and, in some cases, television editorial teams. This is not the only thing the companies involved have in common: "They are media houses that do not belong to Tamedia," Neininger explained to his newspaper. The timing of the announcement of News1.ch will hardly have been coincidental: it took place shortly before the launch of the news network of Tamedia, Espace Media and Basler Zeitung Medien.
The return on investment will come from online advertising; the investment phase should be completed after just one year, Neininger continued. News1.ch will be managed by Sam Müller, the former head of online media at Mittelland-Zeitung. The content will consist of "the best from the participating media companies", Neininger continued.
The focus is on regional and local news. Multimedia content is bundled, as the partner publishers are all active in multimedia and have newspaper, Internet, radio and, in some cases, television editorial teams. This is not the only thing the companies involved have in common: "They are media houses that do not belong to Tamedia," Neininger explained to his newspaper. The timing of the announcement of News1.ch will hardly have been coincidental: it took place shortly before the launch of the news network of Tamedia, Espace Media and Basler Zeitung Medien.
