Half a million readers between the Harz and Lüneburger Heide regularly read the  Braunschweiger Zeitung (BZ) newspaper, the second largest newspaper in Lower Saxony. The BZ newspaper has a circulation of 178.000.

 

The Braunschweiger Zeitung newspaper (together with the Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten newspapers) made a name for itself as strong regional newspaper in a historically important landscape, the Braunschweiger Land region. The editorial department sees the newspaper as a forum, it encourages and demands the dialogue with the readers, for example with the weekly interview series "Leser fragen" (Readers’ Questions) or the daily Reader Page.  

 

The BZ editorial department changed its organisation in 2004 in order to realise its claim of being an intensively researching authorial newspaper.  As one of the first newspapers in the German-speaking region, BZ introduced the News Desk, which links central and local editorial departments and improves the quality and topicality by centrally controlling the journalistic production of the newspaper.

 

The Braunschweiger Zeitung newspaper and its editors have won a large number of awards, for example the Deutscher Lokaljournalistenpreis (German Local Journalist Award), the Robert Bosch Foundation Award and, regularly since 2001, the European Newspaper Award.

 

The newspaper is the oldest North German post-war newspaper; it was published as Braunschweiger Zeitung for the first time on 8 January 1946. The publishing company’s first newspaper titled Braunschweiger Reform was published as early as 1867. Germany’s second oldest newspaper, the Aviso was published in Wolfenbüttel as early as 1609; this newspaper, today the Wolfenbütteler Zeitung, is also published by the Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag newspaper publishers. BZ has been part of the WAZ Media Group since 2007.