[1] The daily issue appeared in the late afternoon, matching the trading hours on the stock exchange.

He also raised the bar in newspaper quality when it came to the speed of publication and the level of reporting.

The increased demands for timely news led to the introduction of flexible working hours and the installment of a night editor.

Journalists included Paul Lindau responsible for theater, Ernst von Wildenbruch for literature, Eugen Richter heading the feuilleton, Alfred Schütze and Paul Bormann for commerce, Benno Jacobsen for theater and Oskar Bie, writing on art.

In 1922 critic Herbert Ihering made Bertolt Brecht known by a review of his first performed play Drums in the Night: "At 24 the writer Bert Brecht has changed Germany's literary complexion overnight [... he] has given our time a new tone, a new melody, a new vision.

"[7] On 20 April 1924, the paper published an essay by Franz Kafka, "Adalbert Stifter".

[8] In the two editions of 11 January 1927, Herbert Ihering reviewed the premiere of the film Metropolis.