Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

Published in Halle[1] with several local versions, the paper is owned by M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne.

The MZ's forerunner, Die Freiheit (Freedom), was first published on 16 April 1946 as an organ of the ruling SED in East Germany.

On 17 March 1990, the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung was first published in the year of German reunification.

The newspaper's publishing company, Mitteldeutschen Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH und Co. KG, is also divided into several subsidiary companies, including the call center MZ-Dialog and the printing/publishing house Aroprint in Bernburg.

In its area of circulation, mainly concentrated in the southern part of Saxony-Anhalt, the MZ has no competition from other regional dailies.