The Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung , shortened as Tageszeitung, is an Italian

Italy

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 daily local newspaper and one of two German-language daily newspapers published in South Tyrol

South Tyrol

South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

. Founded in 1996, it holds social liberal

Social liberalism

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 views as opposed to the conservative stance of the Dolomiten, the oldest and most influential German newspaper in the autonomous province. Published from Tuesday to Sunday, the paper has an average daily circulation

Newspaper circulation

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 of 12,000 sales.

The Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung evolved in 1996 from the weekly

Weekly newspaper

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 Südtirol Profil (South Tyrol Profile). It has a team of ten editors and a similar number of freelancer

Freelancer

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s. It features articles and opinions ranging from current world affairs to sociopolitical topics. In the later field, its record of uncovering deficiencies and creating scandals has made the paper the object of several law suits.