Ostthüringer Zeitung

The Ostthüringer Zeitung is a German newspaper covering eastern Thuringia with a head office in Gera. Together with the Thüringische Landeszeitung it has a daily circulation of 78,244 copies as of 2019, a 57.5% decrease since 1998. Since the early 1990s the OTZ has been printed daily except Sundays in eastern Thuringia by the publisher Ostthüringer Zeitung Verlag, which is owned 40% by the Funke Mediengruppe. Together with the Thüringer Allgemeine and the Thüringische Landeszeitung, it is part of the "Zeitungsgruppe Thüringen" sales network. The total circulation of the three publications as of 2019 is 220,306 copies. In some areas, such as Gera, Jena and the Saale-Holzland district, the OTZ and TLZ appear in parallel. In Gera, the OTZ and TLZ produce a common local section that differs only in layout and design. In Jena the OTZ and TLZ exist separately in Jena are still formally separate but since 2009 have produced common local section with minor differences. Regional editions appear in Bad Lobenstein, Eisenberg, Gera, Greiz, Jena, Pößneck, Rudolstadt, Saalfeld, Schleiz, Schmölln, Stadtroda and Zeulenroda-Triebes.