Kurier
Kurier is one of Austria's major daily newspapers, published in Vienna. It offers general-interest coverage of national and international news, politics, business, and culture for a broad readership, positioned editorially between the country's quality and popular press.
Kurier at a glance
- Country
- Austria
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1954
- Published from
- Vienna
- Website
- kurier.at ↗
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How Crosswire groups Kurier
Crosswire groups Kurier as Centrist for comparisons within Austria's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Austria, Der Standard is listed as Left-leaning, while Kronen Zeitung and Die Presse are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Kurier beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Kurier sits in Austria's press
Kurier was founded in 1954 and is published from Vienna. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Austria, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being Der Standard and Die Presse. By outlets tracked, Austria ranks 14th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Kurier outside Austria, starting with Western Europe, are NRC (Netherlands), La Libre (Belgium), NZZ (Switzerland) and Luxembourg Times (Luxembourg). Opening one of them beside Kurier is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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