Der Standard
Austrian daily newspaper
Der Standard (Austrian German: [deːɐ̯ ˈstandard]) is an Austrian daily newspaper published in Vienna. It is considered a newspaper of record for Austria.
History and profile
Der Standard was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and published its first edition on 19 October 1988. German media company Axel Springer acquired a stake in the paper in 1988 and sold it in 1995.
Bronner remains the paper's publisher, Gerold Riedmann is editor-in-chief. Der Standard sees itself as—in a Continental European sense socially and culturally—liberal and independent. Third parties have described the paper as having a left-liberal stance. Until 2007, the editor-in-chief of the daily was Gerfried Sperl, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid succeeded him in the post.
In 2002 the paper was one of four quality daily newspapers with nationwide distribution along with Salzburger Nachrichten, Die Presse, and Wiener Zeitung. Although Der Standard is intended to be a national paper, in the past it had an undeniable tendency to focus on Vienna.
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