20 Minuten

Crosswire lists 20 Minuten as Center within Switzerland's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side. In Switzerland, NZZ is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open 20 Minuten beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read 20 Minuten beside another title from Switzerland and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Tabloid front pages compress the day into one dominant image and a short, emphatic headline, so with 20 Minuten the editorial choice is mostly in what earns that single slot — and what is pushed off the page entirely. Because 20 Minuten is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Switzerland either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

20 Minuten was founded in 1999, is published from Zurich and is owned by TX Group. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Switzerland, and one of 2 tabloids among them — the other being Blick. By outlets tracked, Switzerland ranks 30th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 19 of the 23 tabloids in the directory. The nearest counterparts to 20 Minuten outside Switzerland, starting with Western Europe, are VG (Norway), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Ekstra Bladet (Denmark) and Ilta-Sanomat (Finland). Opening one of them beside 20 Minuten is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.