Berliner Zeitung

The Berliner Zeitung was the first German daily to be founded after World War II. Until 1990 it was printed exclusively in East Germany. Today it is the second-largest subscription paper in the Berlin area, but is still mainly read in the city's eastern districts. In 2016, the editorial offices of the Berliner Zeitung were merged with those of the tabloid newspaper Berliner Kurier. In 2019 the owner DuMont sold the newspaper to the entrepreneurial couple Friedrich. Shortly afterwards, Holger Friedrich was forced to admit that he had worked as an unofficial employee for the GDR's state security service, the Stasi.