The is a Swiss German-language

daily newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...

established in 1840, published in the

Canton of Valais Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzer ...

. Established in 1840 as the before becoming the , it had an inconsistent first few decades before establishing itself in 1869. It became a daily in 1969. It was the first German-language paper in Valais.

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The paper was founded in the

in 28 July 1840. It is published out of

Sion, Switzerland Sion (, ; former ; ) is a Switzerland, Swiss List of towns in Switzerland, town, a municipality, and the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Valais and of the district of Sion (district), Sion. it had a population of (known as '' ...

, and was the first German-language paper in Valais. Its initial editor was Alois von Riedmatten. It was founded as the as an insertion for the paper, becoming its own paper a few weeks later as the . It was until 1900 staffed by the laity, and until 1930 was by Catholic priests. Its initial period was inconsistent, with it briefly becoming a bilingual paper and renaming itself . It then ceased publication for a decade, before reappearing from 1851 to 1852, but only briefly. It would reappear in 1858 as the , before returning to in 1869 and being published consistently from then on. From 1916 to 1935 it was published by the company Oberwalliser Presseverein AG, and from 1935 on was published by Mengis Druck & Verlag AG of

Visp Visp (; ; ) is the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Geography Visp lies in the Rhône valley, at the confluence of the Vispa and the Rhône, west of Brig-Glis. Visp has an area, , of . Of this a ...

, which had printed the paper for the past three years. In 1954 the paper established an editorial team with an editor-in-chief. The paper was first a weekly, then made a twice weekly in 1901, then a thrice weekly in 1965, and ultimately a daily paper in 1969. At this time it was the dominant paper in the German speaking areas of the canton, dominating its competition. Early in its history it had party ties and was Catholic and conservative in orientation, but it became independent in 1981. Following the end of the rival paper , it had a similar position in the market as the ''Le Nouvelliste'' paper of Francophone Valais. In 2012 its circulation was 24,046.

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