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''B.Z.'' is a German
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published in
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by Ullstein-Verlag, a subsidiary of
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. As of 2010, it has a circulation of around 200,000.TITELANZEIGE: B.Z./B.Z. am Sonntag
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e.V.'' ''B.Z.'' is not to be confused with the ''
Berliner Zeitung The ''Berliner Zeitung'' (; ) is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in East Germany in 1945, it is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since Reunification of Germany, reunification. It is published by Berl ...
'', which has been published since 1945 and is often also informally known as B.Z. in the former
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, or with the evening tabloid formerly known as ''BZ am Abend'', now the ''
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''.


History of the newspaper

The newspaper was founded under the name ''Berliner Zeitung'' on 1 October 1877, and was abbreviated to ''B.Z.'' and purchased by Leopold Ullstein the following year. In 1904 it was remodelled as ''B.Z. am Mittag'', and it was emphasized that it was a daily newspaper. During the
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it was discontinued, and the parent company Ullstein-Vermögen was expropriated by the
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; ''B.Z.'' did not reappear until 19 November 1953. Since taking over Ullstein-Verlag in 1960, ''B.Z.'' is, like ''
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'' and ''
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'', ultimately owned by the Axel Springer company and adheres to its political remit. In 2006 Axel Springer outsourced the newspaper to a company of its own, B.Z.-Ullstein, in order to increase profitability in the highly competitive Berlin market. The outsourcing entailed a move of the paper's editorial headquarters from in
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to the
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. A special sports edition of the paper, ''Sport-B.Z.'', was introduced for the
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and distributed from August of that year with a circulation of 50,000, but was discontinued on 22 December 2006. Since 1991 ''B.Z.'' has awarded an annual cultural prize, the ''Berliner Bär''.


Editors-in-chief

* November 1953 until November 1960: Karl-Heinz Hagen * December 1960 until September 1973: Malte-Till Kogge * October 1973 until July 1991: Wilhelm Pannier * August 1991 until July 1992: Claus Larass (second editor-in-chief 1991/92: Kai Diekmann) * August 1992 until September 1996: Wolfgang Kryszohn * October 1996 until June 1998: Manfred von Thien * July 1998 until December 2000: Franz Josef Wagner * January 2001 until July 2003: Georg Gafron * August 2003 until October 2004: Florian von Heintze * November 2004 until July 2008: Walter Mayer * August 2008 until January 2017: Peter Huth * Since February 2017: Miriam Krekel


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