20 Minuten: last Swiss free daily to stop being printed

TX Group discontinues print version of "20 Minuten" Keystone-SDA

There will no longer be a daily free newspaper in Switzerland from the end of the year: the TX Group is discontinuing the print version of 20 Minuten.

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Up to 80 full-time positions are to be cut in the editorial and publishing departments.

The reason for the closure is the declining income in the print business, the company announced on Tuesday. The editorial offices in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland, which are currently run separately, will be merged into one national editorial office with locations in Lausanne, Bern and Zurich.

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This will mean the end of the regional offices in Basel, Geneva, Lucerne and St Gallen – also at the end of 2025. In future, regional news will be covered by an “agile network of correspondents”.

The first edition of the commuter newspaper was published on December 13, 1999, when it was still owned by the media company Schibstedt; since 2005, 20 Minuten has been owned by Tamedia and later the TX Group.

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