Mine would be "Hello", "Swiss news", Inside".
Not imports from other surrounding countries, only written and published within Switzerland.
Wondering what magazines or newspapers expats or "English reading" people read in Switzerland? Whether they are written in English, German, or French, it doesn't matter.
Do online papers count?
If they do, I read Le Temps online most days. Helps me keep my French from getting too rusty as well as inform me about what is going on in the country.
20 Minuten .
24 heures.
Online they have an English Section very much like the Tribune de Geneve. Maybe they are owned by the same group
For info, the most popular dailies in each of the language regions are:
German - 20 Minuten, Blick, Tages-Anzeiger.
French - 24 Heures, Le Matin, Tribune de Geneve.
Italian - Corriere del Ticino, La RegioneTicino, Giornale del Popolo.
Thanks for that interesting info.
I would like to know what is the most respected francophone paper (not the most popular). In other words, the French language equivalent of the NZZ (assuming, of course, that there is one).
Thanks!
It is Le Temps, but NZZ is of a higher level.
I read Le Temps because it has the best quality among french-speaking papers here, but i.m.o. it is too much oriented to France,,,
Interesting article on the changing nature of the Swiss newspaper market.
Here in Aargau
Weekdays:
Argauer Zeitung (aka AZ) - good quality broadsheet with a pull-out for the local town(s) depending where you buy it. Also has job and local apartment/house ads.
Blick: tabloid, plenty of sport coverage- Good learning tool if your German isn't up to the standard of the better quality papers. I can sometimes manage the (German) crossword in it.
20 minutes and the free local papers which get delivered weekly.
Sundays:
Sonntags Zeitung - plenty to read, lots of sections.
Sonntags Blick - the Sunday version of Blick, but definitely a better read.
I never buy either version of the Blick - most bars and cafes will have a copy, and where I live, at least the AZ. Availabllity of other papers and magazines varies with the cafe/bar.
Excellent point and probably the main reason I go for 20 Minuten, apart from the fact it's free .
However, the low brow papers can be hard too because they tend to use more slang (and indeed Swiss) words.
Living in Swiss Romande, I have subscriptions to the daily "24 heures" and the weekly "Hebdo". I particularly like "Hebdo" as regards its coverage and editorial positions (and am a great fan of the cartoonist "Mix et Remix"). Also read "le Temps" online. Sometimes buy "The Geneva Times" (English language, every 2 months).
I read 24 heures twice a week in the coffee lounge of my French school, and I buy the Sunday issue of Le Matin if I'm passing a box that day.
I subscribe to Tout Compte Fait, a monthly personal finance mag, which does things like Best Buy tables for savings accounts, changes to the tax laws, and case studies about 'Jean' and 'Monique' are planning to manage when they lose an income later this year due to pregnancy/retirement/etc.
I also get Le Petit Quotidien delivered for my son, a 4-page daily that's a sort of National Geographic/ current affairs sheet for kids, but we all read it for the French practice!
kodokan
I read Tages-Anzeiger / 20min. / News / SonntagsZeitung
I pick up mine off the seats on the train, Das Blick (Der,die ? forgot), 20 Minuten and anything that's worth browsing on the platform while waiting for ... and on the train to work. If from time to time someone drops an interesting Illustrative I may have look... else online and obviously EF is like an online-paper when it comes to politics, social life and news... nothing counts more than IMHO of the members concerned
Surely.. I forgot to mention "News"... it is a second pick after "20Minuten" while they're all gone... I sometimes wonder though why they call it 20 minutes paper... do they update it ever 20min which I doubt (online I mean) or one suppose to scan or read (is more appropriate here) thru the paper within 20 minutes. As far as I am concerned it takes me about 1h to read the single article with my current German knowledge (B1 level), yet if I am inspired to do so...
Because it takes about 20 minutes to read and that's about the average commute for many people. 20 minutes is often referred to in German as a Pendler Zeitung meaning commuter's newspaper.
SO maybe I miss the point and forgive my ignorance... can average person read it all in 20minutes... while commuting as you say...
You're not wrong there - indeed, the first London newspapers were little more than an update on events taking place in the coffee houses of the time - and what is the English Forum, if not the 21st Century answer to an 18th Century coffee house?
Don't forget - you read it here first!
I mean, come on, all the speculations and discussions on USB bank and Israeli politics to name a few were just poignant opinions of the members whose instinct combined with being well informed and knowledge made entire thing very informative... while you read between the lines.
If you read a paper it just a formal recount of events whereas English forum members take it all personal and with emotions e.g. Skinhead attacked.. thread Maybe it is just me speaking out of boredom and have another drink cheers... cheers...
I've been a subscriber to Bilan and also read Le Temps online. This has proven extremely useful to me as a newcomer in the country to get a quick feel of what was going on on a business, economical and political standpoint.