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Die Welt

Hamburg, Germany

Die Welt (The World) is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer AG.

It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a “quality newspaper” modelled on The Times. It originally carried news and British-viewpoint editorial content, but in 1947 it adopted a policy of providing two leading articles on major questions, one British and one German. At its peak in the occupation period, it had a circulation of around a million.

The modern paper takes a self-described “liberal cosmopolitan” position in editing, but Die Welt is generally considered to be conservative.

Source: Wikipedia

THEN

1993

N/A circulation

N/A staff

1993 Frontpage
Die Welt front page from Feb. 10, 1993
NOW

2013

263,000 circulation

N/A staff

2013 Frontpage
Die Welt front page from Feb. 10, 2013 (Or Feb. 8 page)