''Falter'' () is a weekly Austrian
news magazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or new ...
published in Vienna.
History and profile
Established in 1977, ''Falter'' is published weekly on Wednesdays.
The magazine was founded by Walter Martin Kienreich. The publisher is Falter Verlagsgesellschaft.
[ The magazine has no political affiliation. Its headquarters is in Vienna.]Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc ...
. The weekly has a science supplement, ''Heureka'', which is supported by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science. The supplement features critical analyses of scientific activities, science policy
Science policy is concerned with the allocation of resources for the conduct of science towards the goal of best serving the public interest. Topics include the funding of science, the careers of scientists, and the translation of scientific disc ...
, science/society relationships and university-based science and each issue focuses on a scientific topic, including genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinians, Augustinian ...
, science
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and politics
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...
among the others.[ It is distributed not only to the readers of ''Falter'' but also to university departments, the relevant ministries and other related institutions.][
In addition to its original role as a magazine of the arts and social life, ''Falter'' has also developed a reputation for ]investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend m ...
.[
The 2007 circulation of ''Falter'' was 63,000 copies.][ In 2010 its circulation was 48,000 copies. Since then, print journalism has seen readical changes in Austria. The exact circulation of Falter is, for unexplained reasons, no longer reported to the "Auflagenkontrolle"; however, competitors report of "about 40,000 subscribers" in 2023 for Falter.]
See also
* List of magazines in Austria
There were at least 19 Jewish magazines in Austria which were all banned after 1938. As of 2012 the magazine sector in Austria was under the dominance of Germany. This influence decreased at the end of the 1990s, but it continued on the women's ma ...
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