The paper is published six days a week; the masthead of the Saturday edition is held in light blue.

Rivals on the Munich tabloid market are tz and a localized edition of the national mass circulation phenomenon Bild-Zeitung.

Friedmann's goal was to provide Munich with a tabloid newspaper also appealing to the intellectual circles of society.

The takeover of the editorial board by Arno Makowsky, an experienced local journalist from Munich, should help change that.

Because of "economic difficulties" the management decided, in March 2010, to considerably reduce the number of employees in the editorial and publishing sections.

Michael Schilling was appointed city editor, to which his deputies were Timo Lokoschat and Thomas Müller.

The income from the sales of the former headquarters in Sendlinger Straße and of Nürnberger Abendzeitung were completely depleted because of this.

[9] The magazine Der Spiegel cited, as the reason for the decline of AZ, that it had a very expensive and long-term contract with the printing plant and a reduction of the newspaper's content, of which only a good sports section remained.