The Westfälische Rundschau is located in Southern Westphalia and Eastern Ruhr Area, with a weekend circulation of 210,000 copies. Currently, there are over 200 members of the editorial staff, each working to uphold and reinforce the good reputation that, over the past six decades, has led to the phrase “Besser die Rundschau” (better read the Rundschau).

A tight network of around 23 local and district editorial offices makes for comprehensive local reporting from Dortmund and Hagen, the area’s main cities, and outlying districts such as Unna, Olpe, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Hochsauerlandkreis, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis and Märkischer Kreis. In addition, in the central editorial office in Dortmund, streams of text, images and graphics from half a dozen international agencies are analysed and processed in order to offer a comprehensive and current, clear and competent picture of the events in the region and the whole world.

WR is also represented in the most important countries by its own correspondents: for readers that means first-hand background reports and news.

This impressive mixture of regional and (inter)national reports, critical commentaries and an enormous social commitment have made the Rundschau a forum for opinions that is recognised by readers and rewarded with loyalty. Even after five decades, the WR remains true to its founding keynote as being "...liberal, committed to social democracy and rejecting all totalitarian attempts."