Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten (DNN) is a regional newspaper that appears in the city of Dresden and its surroundings. It is the third largest newspaper in the region after the '' Sächsische Zeitung'' and the ''Dresdner Morgenpost''. The sold circulation amounts to 20,432 copies, a decrease of 48,1 per cent since 1998. The newspaper celebrated its 110-year anniversary in 2003.

Earlier publication

A newspaper with the title ''Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten'' appeared in 1893, but it was discontinued in 1943 by the Nazis. Jürgen Helfricht: ''Die Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten – ein Vertreter der bürgerlichen Generalanzeiger-Presse (1893–1913)''. Diplomarbeit, Universität Leipzig 1989 During GDR times, the same office produced the newspapers '' Die Union'' (the regional press organ of the Christian Democratic Union), the '' Sächsisches Tageblatt'' (the regional press organ of the

Liberal Democratic Party of Germany The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (german: Liberal-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands, LDPD) was a political party in East Germany. Like the other allied bloc parties of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the National Front, it ...

and the '' Sächsische Neueste Nachrichten'' (the press organ of the

National Democratic Party of Germany The National Democratic Party of Germany (german: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands or NPD) is a far-right Neo-Nazi and ultranationalist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 1964 as successor to the German Reich Part ...

). All these newspapers were controlled by Socialist censorship between 1949 and 1990. ''Die Union'' was the first newspaper in the GDR that reported about the Monday demonstrations in GDR realistically and freely. In 1990 the newspapers joined back together again and took back on the name ''Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten''.

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