One would have expected Weltwoche to be more resilient. It would certainly have been painful to write off 1000 euros, flight, dinner and hotel as "nothing but expenses". But the reader would have been grateful.
On Constructive Journalism
There was a time when I thought that "20 Minutes" was an excellent marketing product, but nothing more. Until my ex-girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter, a staunch "20 Minutes" reader, described the mexico rcs data current world situation to me in a few words but with great precision, and got me, a passionate Tagi and NZZ reader, into trouble. At that moment I realized that "20 Minutes" is also a brilliant media product, although the word "brilliant" should really be used sparingly.
"20 Minutes" is reduced to the max. And perhaps its success is also due to the fact that it never wanted to be more than "20 Minutes" and did not claim the praise of media scientists, never receive. It is - and this sounds paradoxical - a great achievement of the respective editors-in-chief and publishing directors such as Marco Boselli or Marcel Kohler that they never wanted to make "20 Minutes" more than a commuter paper that you can read through in 20 minutes. The commuter newspaper "Metropol", which started at almost the same time in Switzerland twenty years ago and was headed by the later SRF editor-in-chief Ueli Haldimann, had far greater journalistic ambitions. And had to cease operations in 2002. Which was astonishing, since the parent company "Metro" launched the first commuter newspapers in Scandinavia.