“We all tried to save our beloved book”: the operator of a well-known German magazine, have announced that after 43 years. (With)guilty of the Corona is a crisis.
After 43 years in the city magazine Zitty is set. Reason, the Coronavirus* -crisis. In Berlin the consternation is great.
Berlin – The German capital city of Berlin loses an absolute Institution. The well-known city magazine Zitty is set. And with immediate effect. It is not even a farewell issue. It is a tradition-rich magazine for a whopping 43 years. The operators announced “in their own, sad thing” on the Homepage zitty.de .
“dear Zitty reader*, dear friends, dear companions, and we have, unfortunately, damn bad news for you,” it says. “After 43 years, we need to set the Print edition our Zitty . There will be no more printed booklet at the Kiosk. We have tried everything to save our beloved book, to defy the Corona-crisis* more. It is unfortunately not enough. sad .“
+ A client at a Kiosk in Berlin (archive photo).©picture alliance / Maurizio Gamb / Maurizio Gambarini
Berlin: Coronavirus-for Zitty magazine is in the tip on
The Corona-crisis have hit the publisher hard. The mother publishing house, GCM Go City Media GmbH , was resilient to the crisis, Zitty, even with the sister magazine, tip put together, the appearance of the rhythm adjusted. But all of this has helped. Of course, only the entertainment industry (also in Munich*) is not hard of the Corona-crisis hit. But also everything related to it. A city magazine is part of logical way.
For the readers of Zitty, there is only a weak consolation: Some of the headings are saved to the tip magazine over, in addition, Zitty live more on the tip website, which aims to get at the end of June to restart.
Berlin: Coronavirus-From Zitty – Great Regret
Zitty 1977 appeared for the first time in the year . In Berlin, the magazine probably knows every. In this respect, the Regret in the capital is huge. “Zitty is the first victim of Corona in Berlin’s media landscape,” said the Berlin DJV Chairman Christian Walther, according to the Berliner Zeitung. The circulation was 14,000 copies (IVW 3. Quarter of 2019).
Even I as a non-Berliner, the “Zitty” as an Institution. This is a tragic loss. “The Berlin city magazine “Zitty”: After 43 years https://t.co/pfddh9kcO5
— Aleks (@Aleks_weltweit) June 23, 2020
set to” “Even I as a non-Berliner, the Zitty as an Institution. This is a tragic loss,“ writes a Twitter user. “Honestly sad” another journalist. The Berliner Zeitung has even published an “obituary of a city feeling.”
Due to Corona is also a popular German Free-TV channel had to close, as tz.de* talks,.
*tz.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editors network
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