Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost
The 29 January 2011 front page
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerFunke Mediengruppe
EditorPeter Schink
Founded1898; 128 years ago (1898)
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Websitewww.morgenpost.de Edit this at Wikidata

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapers.

History and profile

Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959 and sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013. In 2009, it had a circulation of 145,556 and an estimated 322,000 readers. Since May 2015 the non-regional sections of the newspaper have been produced by the Funke group's central newsroom also in Berlin. In 2016 a tabloid version of the Morgenpost was launched.

The editor-in-chief is Peter Schink.

In 2012, it was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the regional newspaper category by the European Newspapers Congress.

Editors-in-chief

References

  1. ↑ Schultz, Stefan; Steinmetz, Vanessa; Teevs, Christian (26 July 2013). "Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Media analysis on the paper's page at the Axel Springer AG website.
  3. ↑ "Berliner Morgenpost". eurotopics.net. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Unternehmenskommunikation, Dennis Barkhausen (9 September 2026). "Wechsel an der Spitze der Berliner Morgenpost: Anne Lena Mösken folgt als Chefredakteurin auf Peter Schink". www.funkemedien.de (in German). Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  5. ↑ "European Newspaper Award 12+1". European Newspaper Congress. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Korenke, Tobias (2 October 2023). "BERLINER MORGENPOST bekommt neuen Chefredakteur: Der Digitalexperte Peter Schink wechselt von t-online zu FUNKE" [BERLINER MORGENPOST gets new editor-in-chief: Digital expert Peter Schink moves from t-online to FUNKE]. Funke Mediengruppe (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.