DER SPIEGEL

DER SPIEGEL is a German news magazine and news website published in Hamburg. The magazine was founded in 1947 by the British army officer John Seymour Chaloner and Rudolf Augstein. The website, launched in 1994 as Spiegel Online, uses the same brand and a shared editorial team today. The weekly magazine had a circulation of about 724,000 copies in 2022, which makes it one of the largest of its kind in Europe, and it is known for investigative journalism such as the Spiegel affair of 1962.

Features

• Daily news and analysis on spiegel.de and in the app.
• Weekly magazine as print edition and digital issue.
• Investigative reporting, interviews and long reads in the premium offer Spiegel+.
• International coverage, with an English-language section on spiegel.de.

Ownership and limits

The company group Rudolf Augstein GmbH is owned by a staff holding, Spiegel-Mitarbeiter KG, with 50.5 percent, Gruner + Jahr with 25.5 percent and the heirs of Rudolf Augstein with 24 percent. A part of the articles requires a paid subscription. The main audience is German-speaking.