Profil (magazine)

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profil
EditorAnna Thalhammer
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
CirculationFirst half of 2013 was 71,033 copies
PublisherNEWS
First issue7 September 1970; 53 years ago (1970-09-07)
CompanyNEWS
CountryAustria
Based inVienna
LanguageGerman
Websitewww.profil.at
ISSN1022-2111

Profil, (stylized in all lowercase) is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna. It was founded as a monthly magazine and has been in circulation since 1970. The magazine is sometimes considered the Austrian counterpart to Der Spiegel.[1][2] In 2008 the magazine was described as the “most important Austrian news magazine”.[3]

History and profile[edit]

profil was founded in 1970[4] by Oscar Bronner,[5][6] who also founded the magazine trend and the daily newspaper Der Standard.[7][8] The magazine is headquartered in Vienna.[5][9]

The first edition of profil came out as a monthly on 7 September 1970. Starting in October 1972, it was published every two weeks and from January 1974 every week.[10] In 2001 profil became part of the publishing company NEWS.[5] In 1975 business magazine, ecco, merged with profil.[8]

profil includes sections for Austria, abroad, economy, society, science, and culture. Glosses, caricatures, and letters to the editor are also published. In the mid-1980s it had an independent and liberal leaning.[11] In the 2000s the magazine had a left liberal political stance.[12] It targets Austria's intelligentsia.[8] Both profil and trend initiated investigative journalism in the country.[8] It was profil which revealed the Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president.[13][14] Investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin served as the political editor of profil.[15][16] He uncovered the story about Kurt Waldheim's Nazi connection.[16]

Christian Rainer succeeded Josef Votzi as publisher and editor-in-chief in 1998.[6] The chief editorial staff consisted of Sven Gächter, Stefan Janny, and Herbert Lackner.

Restructuring 2022/2023[edit]

In December 2022 it was announced that Richard Grasl would also become profile managing director in addition to his journalistic work for the Kurier.[17] On the same day it was announced that Christian Rainer would end his role as editor-in-chief and publisher of Profil.[18] Due to Grasl's appointment, the editorial team felt compelled to publicly emphasize the magazine's "untouchable journalistic independence".[19] At the same time, management reported three profile editors to the works council for termination.[20]

Editorial GmbH led by Grasl became the new publisher in January 2023. The new editor-in-chief has been Anna Thalhammer[21] since March 1, 2023.[22][23]

The economics department head and deputy editor-in-chief Michael Nikbakhsh also left the magazine in this context. He was offered the opportunity to run Kurier and Profil's planned investigative academy as a self-employed person.[24] Even before the academy started, Nikbakhsh “irrevocably” resigned from the leadership in February 2023. He developed a program for the academy and presented it to Richard Grasl, Martina Salomon and Anna Thalhammer at a meeting. According to Nikbakhsh, they had begun “in all seriousness” to classify intended speakers “according to suspected or supposed party-political affiliation”. Salomon explained that it was important to her that “not only leftists” appeared. Those mentioned contradict Nikbakhsh's account.[25]

Circulation[edit]

The circulation of profil was 72,000 copies in 1985.[11] In 1993, the magazine had a circulation of more than 100,000 copies.[26]

The weekly had a circulation of 76,000 copies in 2003 and 78,000 copies in the first quarter of 2004.[10] In 2006, the magazine had a readership of 6%, being second to NEWS magazine.[27] The circulation of the magazine was 251,000 copies in 2007.[28] Its circulation for the first half of 2008 was 59,124 copies.[29] The 2010 circulation of profil was 93,000 copies.[30] The circulation of the magazine during the first half of 2013 was down to 71,033 copies.[31]

See also[edit]

List of magazines in Austria

References[edit]

  1. ^ profil Presseurop. Retrieved 3 December 2013
  2. ^ Reinhold Wagnleitner (Summer 1999). "The Empire of the Fun, or Talkin' Soviet Union Blues: The Sound of Freedom and U.S. Cultural Hegemony in Europe". Diplomatic History. 23 (3): 500. doi:10.1111/0145-2096.00179.
  3. ^ Harald Fidler: Österreichs Medienwelt von A bis Z. Falter-Verlag, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-85439-415-0, S. 497.
  4. ^ "European News Resources". NYU Libraries. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "profil". Euro Topics. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  6. ^ a b Kimberly Bradley (October 2014). "Alive and kicking". Monocle. 77 (8).
  7. ^ "Despite Everything: The Oscar Bronner Story". Deutsches Haus. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  8. ^ a b c d Charlotte Natmeßnig (2006). "Business Press in Austria" (Conference Paper). Helsinki.fi. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  9. ^ "The Media in the German Speaking Countries". University of Chicago. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Media Markets: Austria Country Overview". Russian Telecom. August 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  11. ^ a b Ulf Jonas Bjork (August 1985). "Excitement, Tinged with Jingoism: British Public Opinion and the Falklands in Four News Magazines" (Conference paper). ERIC. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  12. ^ "Communicating Europe: Austria Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  13. ^ Richard Mitten (1992). The Politics of the Antisemitic Prejudice. The Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria (PDF). Boulder: Westview Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  14. ^ "Letter from Europe". The New Yorker. 30 June 1986. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  15. ^ Elisabeth Penz; Jon Thurber (15 June 2006). "Hubertus Czernin, 50; Austrian Journalist Had Role in Return of Art Seized by Nazis". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  16. ^ a b Richard Winter; Susan Winter Balk; Gregory Weeks (2007). Vienna's Conscience: Close-ups and Conversations After Hitler. Reedy Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-933370-08-8.
  17. ^ ""Kurier"-Vize Richard Grasl wird zusätzlich "Profil"-Geschäftsführer, Christian Rainer gibt Chefredaktion ab". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  18. ^ "Christian Rainer gibt Chefredaktion des "Profil" ab". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  19. ^ ""Profil"-Redaktion betont nach Grasl-Bestellung "unantastbare journalistische Unabhängigkeit"". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  20. ^ "Anna, das Profil hamma". www.falter.at. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  21. ^ ""Profil"-Herausgeber wird die von Richard Grasl geführte Redaktions-GmbH". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  22. ^ "In eigener Sache". profil.at (in Austrian German). 26 April 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  23. ^ "Generationswechsel beim profil: Anna Thalhammer wird neue Chefredakteurin". OTS.at (in German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  24. ^ "Michael Nikbakhsh verlässt "Profil"-Redaktion, leitet neue Investigativakademie von "Profil" und "Kurier"". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  25. ^ "Aufdecker Michael Nikbakhsh verlässt Investigativakademie von "Kurier" und "Profil" vor Start" (in Austrian German). Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  26. ^ Eric Solsten, ed. (1994). Austria: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  27. ^ Günter Bischof; Fritz Plasser (January 2008). The Changing Austrian Voter. Transaction Publishers. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4128-1932-9.
  28. ^ Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market & Media Fact" (PDF). ZenithOptimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  29. ^ "Austria: New circulation figures for the 1st half 2008". Publicitas. 20 August 2008. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  30. ^ "Western Europe Media Facts. 2011 Edition" (PDF). ZenithOptimedia. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  31. ^ "List of represented titles. Magazines" (PDF). Publicitas International AG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.

External links[edit]

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