The second part covers regional news from the municipalities of Basel, Riehen and Bettingen, followed by reports from Baselland and Fricktal, and very rarely from Sundgau and Markgräflerland.

[6] Subscribers (not newsstand buyers) also receive the "Magazin" of the Zürcher "Tages-Anzeiger" which are both smaller Swiss journals as a supplement every Saturday.

On 24 February 2013, the last issue of the Sunday edition was published; since then, subscribers have received Tamedia's Sonntags Zeitung.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, BaZ Kompakt provides information on important background topics in tabloid format.

This was particularly evident in the coverage of the Zurich Globus riot: In contrast to almost all other Swiss dailies, the NZ strove for a balanced portrayal of the youth riots, strongly criticized the police beatings ordered by the Zurich authorities, and solicited understanding for the rebelling youth.

The publisher at the time, Hans-Rudolf Hagemann, stated, "The advertisement is the most profitable item we sell," and announced appropriate cost-cutting measures in June 1975.

Among others, the following measures were implemented: Nevertheless, the National-Zeitung could not survive on its own; in the first major press merger in Switzerland, it merged with the Basler Nachrichten to form BaZ in 1977.

The previously competing publishers justified the merger as follows: "This forward-looking decision, reached after thorough negotiations and in mutual agreement, is based on the realization that only a united effort can solve the increasingly difficult economic and technical problems of the press and at the same time offer readers a daily newspaper that meets their high demands of today."

[9] Nothing of the "in-depth negotiations" leaked to the public: although various events in the past (for example, the joint stock exchange page from 1975) were retroactively interpreted as indications of a merger, the publishers denied such plans until the end.

Supporters of the BN saw it as a betrayal of liberalism, while sympathizers of the NZ accused the Basel business circles of having gotten rid of a critical, inconvenient newspaper in such a simple way.

From now on, the new editorial team, made up of members of both media houses, had to write together for a broader readership in a so-called forum newspaper.

The publishing house and the board of directors, which was dominated by representatives of the chemical industry and the banks, granted themselves more power.

On 8 February 2010, the Hagemann publishing family and Publigroupe(A marketing group for media and publicity companies situated in Lausanne) announced the sale of their shares in Basler Zeitung Medien to investors Tito Tettamanti and Martin Wagner.

[14] Blocher was providing purely industrial consulting services through "Robinvest AG" and was not influencing newspaper content.

On 24 November 2010, it became known that the owners Tettamanti/Wagner had sold the "Basler Zeitung Medien" with immediate effect and 100 percent to the Basel entrepreneur and Crossair founder Moritz Suter.

[18] Moritz Suter announced in an interview in the NZZ am Sonntag that he had spent only about one million francs on the purchase of the holding company.

(March 2011) and by a Basler Zeitung journalist (May 2011) to the Swiss Press Council regarding the paper's opaque financing were upheld on 13 July 2011: The economic control of the newspaper by Moritz Suter was officially challenged by the Swiss Press Council and a corresponding disclosure was demanded.

[23] On 12 December 2011, Moritz Suter ceded his shares to Rahel Blocher, thus ending his attempt to reorganize Basler Zeitung.

[25][26][27] However, as early as 14 December 2011, Basler Zeitung was taken over by the newly founded "Media diversity Holding" based in the canton of Zug.

which means "save Basel" campaign, also critical of BaZ, continued to assume a strong influence of Blocher and SVP confidants.

[30] [check quotation syntax] Since the end of June 2014, Markus Somm, Christoph Blocher and Rolf Bollmann each owned one third of the Basler Zeitung.

[31] Since then, the media company's activities have focused solely on publishing Basler Zeitung and BaZ Kompakt.

As a result, Basler Zeitung will take over the "Mantel" (This is referring to the part of a regional journal that reports on non-regional events) for national topics from Tamedia and report on all local, regional and cantonal events, including business, culture as well as sports, with an independent editorial team from Basel.

Marcel Rohr, the former head of sports at Basler Zeitung, has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief and Markus Somm's successor from January 2019.