Süddeutsche Zeitung

Süddeutsche Zeitung  (newspaper)
Type	file of unspecified type
Founder(s)	August Schwingenstein,  Edmund Goldschagg,  Franz Josef Schöningh,  Werner Friedmann
Founded	6 October 1945
Author(s)

Süddeutsche Zeitung, the largest German national subscription daily newspaper, was licensed by the US military administration five months after the end of World War II and published its first edition on 6 October 1945.

It is one of the most important transatlantic media in Germany.^[Why?]

Financial difficulties

SZ came close to bankruptcy in October 2002 but was rescued by a 150 million euro investment from the regional newspaper chain Südwestdeutsche Medien.

Panama papers

In early 2015, Süddeutsche Zeitung received a huge (2.6TB) data set from an anonymous source which contained confidential information of a law firm, Mossack Fonseca, offering the management of offshore companies. The newspaper in conjunction with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reviewed the data from the Panama Papers for over a year before publishing it on 3 April 2016.

On 14 April 2016, in a televised Q and A session, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Süddeutsche Zeitung belonged to the US bank Goldman Sachs. Putin's claim was swiftly dismissed by SZ managing director Stefan Hilscher, who said in a statement the newspaper “has no relationship under corporate law with Goldman Sachs”, adding the paper’s ownership was publicly available information. Goldman Sachs referred to Hilscher’s statement and declined further comment. Kremlin press spokesman Dmitry Peskov later retracted President Putin's claim.

COVID-19

"Dare more dictatorship" - in 2021 the paper called for a dictatorship in order to quash ""Covid deniers".

Writing about the contributions of Christina Berndt, 'Eugyppius' termed the paper "lockdown-happy and vaccine-crazed".

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Stefan Kornelius	Washington correspondent	1996	1999
Stefan Kornelius	Head of the foreign policy department	2000	2021	One of the most closely networked journalists, functioning as a "transmission belt for American foreign policy thinking"<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Stefan Kornelius	Head of the politics department	2012
Christoph von Marschall	Journalist	1988	1991
Bastian Obermayer	Head of Investigation	January 2018	April 2022
Barbara von Ow-Freytag	Foreign Editor	January 1987	July 1989

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