Subversion im Satz

They were young and rebellious, on the run and in prison. They defied censorship, defied church and world authorities and hoped for a free and just, an "enlightened" world. They were well-read and wrote books, they lived in need and doubted God, they were ostracized and tough. And almost all of them immigrated from Catholic Southern Germany - the first editors of the NZZ. Today, newspaper journalism is being put to the test. How it will master the challenges of digitalisation and the changed reading habits of the digital natives is still open. In this precarious moment for journalism, a look back at its beginnings is illuminating. The genesis of the "Zürcher Zeitung", founded in 1780, the oldest newspaper in Switzerland and one of the oldest political newspapers in the world, shows in an exemplary way how the moder.