Tagesschau
Tagesschau is the flagship news service of Germany's public broadcaster ARD, providing television bulletins and an online news platform. As a publicly funded service, it is one of the country's most trusted and widely watched news sources. It aims for broad, balanced coverage of national and international affairs, politics, economics, and society.
Tagesschau at a glance
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Public broadcaster
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1952
- Ownership
- Produced by NDR for ARD, the consortium of Germany's public broadcasters
- Published from
- Hamburg
- Website
- tagesschau.de ↗
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- Renders inside Crosswire's comparison panes (last checked 2026-10-12).
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How Crosswire groups Tagesschau
Crosswire groups Tagesschau as Centrist for comparisons within Germany'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 Germany, taz is listed as Left-leaning, while BILD and Die Welt are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Tagesschau beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Tagesschau sits in Germany's press
Tagesschau was founded in 1952, is published from Hamburg and is produced by NDR for ARD, the consortium of Germany's public broadcasters. It is one of 11 outlets tracked in Germany and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Germany ranks second of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Tagesschau outside Germany, starting with Western Europe, are BBC News (United Kingdom), RTÉ News (Ireland), RÚV (Iceland) and NRK (Norway). Opening one of them beside Tagesschau is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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