Tz (newspaper)

tz

Type	Daily tabloid
Publisher	Zeitungsverlag tz München GmbH & Co. KG
Editor	Rudolf Bögel
Founded	1968 (1968)
Headquarters	Munich
Circulation	120,533 daily (Q3 2015)
Website	www.tz.de

The tz (for Tageszeitung, German for daily newspaper) is a Munich-based tabloid, which belongs to the media group Münchner Merkur/tz from publisher Dirk Ippen. The tabloid's main circulation areas include Munich and the surrounding area of Upper Bavaria. Editors are the Münchner Merkur owners, Dirk Ippen and Alfons Döser, who is also CEO of Oberbayerisches Volksblatt. Chief editor is Rudolf Bögel, who before was head of local competitor Abendzeitung. The daily sales in the third quarter of 2015 were 120,533 copies, which is a decline of 19.7 percent since 1998.^[1]