| Newspaper Name: |
Express |
| Owner: |
M. DuMont Schauberg |
| Country / Region: |
Germany (Cologne) |
| Language: |
Deutch |
| Format type: |
Newspaper |
| Category: |
Yellow press |
| Political alignment: |
None |
| Frequency: |
Daily |
| Publication Years (print version): |
1964 — now (59 years) |
| Circulation: |
88,000 (2015) |
| Website: |
express.de [read with translation] |
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«Express» is a regional tabloid newspaper with a publishing house in Cologne. In the cities of Bonn and Dusseldorf, the newspaper has its own editorial offices, publications differ in titles and partly in content, using local dialects. The newspaper is available for free sale in the north-west of Germany mainly through so-called newspaper vending machines, as well as by subscription.
Alfred Nevin Dumont, known as the publisher of the newspaper «
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger», in the 1960s came up with the idea of creating an urban provincial tabloid focused on sensational news. The newspaper was supposed to compete with the popular «
Bild» and be distributed in cities less covered by this tabloid.
The first issue of the newspaper «Express» was distributed free of charge on February 29, 1964, in March of the same year, the newspaper became available for free sale. The first circulation of the newspaper averaged 30 thousand copies. In 1965, the newspaper was published in Bonn, and in 1967 — in Dusseldorf («Express» received here almost 300 thousand new readers left after the liquidation of the local tabloid «Mittag»).
The circulation of the Express newspaper has been declining regularly since 1998, and as of today, these losses have amounted to more than 70 percent. Express is the newspaper with the biggest drop in popularity over the past 20 years in Germany.
