Its authors have won journalistic prizes including the Theodor Wolff Prize (Jan Haarmeyer, Barbara Hardinghaus, Miriam Opresnik, Özlem Topçu), the Wächterpreis der Tagespresse (Christian Denso, Marion Girke, and the Deutscher Reporter:innenpreis [de] (German Reporter Prize) (Volker ter Haseborg, Antje Windmann).

The paper was also awarded the Deutscher Lokaljournalistenpreis [de] six times since 2004 by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

This incarnation of the Hamburger Abendblatt, however, was first published after World War II beginning on 14 October 1948 with an initial edition of 60,000 copies.

The paper received a publishing license from the Hamburg Senate and Mayor Max Brauer, making it the first daily paper of post-war Germany to receive a license from German rather than Allied occupation authorities.

[2] The paper is published by Funke Mediengruppe, who purchased it from Axel Springer effective 1 January 2014.