Frankfurter Rundschau

The Frankfurter Rundschau was badly hit by the media crisis. In May 2004 the SPD-owned media holding company DDVG bought a 90 percent stake in the company. In 2006 Cologne publishers M. DuMont Schauberg acquired a 51-percent stake. In 2010 the newspaper's production was taken over by the DuMont editorial collective, in 2012 it was on the verge of being discontinued but was taken over by Frankfurter Societät, the FAZ publishing group and the Karl Gerold foundation, and a mimimal editorial team was kept on. Between 2011 and 2013 its national section was produced in Berlin in cooperation with the Berliner Zeitung. In 2013 it went back to being produced entirely in Frankfurt. In March 2018 the Ippengruppe took over the Mediengruppe Frankfurt together with the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Frankfurter Neue Presse.