This morning free dailies Metro and Spits – both owned by Dutch media group TMG – covered the Boston bomb attack quite differently. Actually, Spits didn’t cover it at all. After TMG took over Metro it started printing the new acquisition itself, resulting in a closing time for Spits of 20:15. This explained why Spits […]

Free daily Heute saw readership increase with 7% in 2012 compared to 2011 to just below the 1 million mark: 998,000. Heute is again the second best-read paper in the country, reaching 13.9% of the population against 37.4% for Kronen Zeitung. Marketleader Kronen Zeitung saw readership drop with 1% to 2.7 million. In Vienna, Heute […]