newspapers in english about Switzerland

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Hi all,

does anyone know of a newspaper in English which is about Switzerland, or at least this area?

I have found the English papers, but I dont really care what prince harry is doing this week, and as for the US papers..... they have terrible crosswords!

I really miss sitting down for a weekend breakfast with the paper and finding out what is going on in the local area....

cheers!

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The commercial repercussions of printing a paper in a foreign language just for you are likely not to be too rewarding.

Switzerland is a graveyard for would-be English-language publications. Swiss News has lasted 25 years, but at a price: 'advertorial' has been their lifeline...

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I think the NZZ has an English section

but

as the region speaks German, the newspapers will be in ........

They're actually a good aid to learning the language. There are English portals like www.swissinfo.org but not in print.

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Yair yair.... this ia as much as I figured... was still hopeful tho!

thanks!

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Not a newspaper but Inside Switzerland is a very good english magazine. Just a pity it's only quarterly

www.insidemagazine.ch

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I subscribe to Swissnews, think it's super value.

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tribune de geneve has an English corner. Well, online anyway. I don't know if it is in the print version.

Is this something you might be looking for?

http://www.tdg.ch/pages/home/tribune...sh_corner/news

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What makes you think a UK or US broadsheet would waste any space on Switzerland apart from the travel/lifestyle section? Heck, before the "we're being overrun by Germans" broohaha, Switzerland didn't even blip the radar in neighboring Germany, fuggetabout France or Italy

Usual coverage is *yawn* everything's fine in little Switzerland *yawn*

The cuckoo clocks are still going cuckoo, not booom, Roger Federer is still the hottest thing since sliced cheese and yodeling is still the number one passtime once Swissies are done inventing Ricola or counting some dictator's money

go for the English online section of the NZZ and SwissInfo (cribbed from NZZ but what the hey)

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http://www.swissinfo.org/

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did you read this thread before posting that links?

Just wondering really as it's not the first time it has been posted. Do keep up.

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Hmm didnt really think that they would have anything about switzerland! they are just the only papers in english I have found in Zurich so far.

Basically I am feeling glued to the computer... all my work, information and now even my TV is on the computer, it is nice to get away

I will check out these mags, and continue to pick my way through the German in the local papers, its probably good for me

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I didn't want to start a new thread, in case someone has already mentioned this somewhere else...

Over at Swissnews, there's an article about expat websites in Switzerland, with EF prominently featured, and a short interview with Mark: http://www.swissnews.ch/site3.php

I just thought someone ought to mention it if nobody else had...

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AFAIK, the Basler Zeitung also has an english section, and then there are the HELLO MAGAZINES (not ot be confused with the starstudded thing )

http://www.hello-magazines.ch/

They don't cover Breaking News,but we contributors try to give good and thorough information in our articles.

The Bern one is free but only printed quarterly,the other cost a subscription fee and are issued monthly.

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As someone who works for Swiss News, I just wanted to comment on the advertorial issue. It is true that each issue features a few pages of advertorials (which are clearly marked so they can be easily read or avoided), but at 64 to 80 pages per issue, 5 or so pages of paid PR doesn't seem too bad.

My experience with some of Switzerland's other English publications is that the PRs are a lot more difficult to spot - but maybe that's me.

Anyway, just wanted to pitch my 2 rappen in!