Neue Zürcher Nachrichten

At a meeting of the Katholisch-Konservativen Volkspartei (Catholic-Conservative People's Party) in Lucerne, it was stated that a large increase in the share of votes in the Catholic cantons was no longer possible.

In order to advance to Zürich, the small Catholic paper was to be expanded into a first-class daily newspaper including a business association.

On the initiative of the printer Theodat Bucher and the editor-in-chief of Die Ostschweiz, Georg Baumberger, who moved to Zürich, the Neue Zürcher Nachrichten was created.

[6][7] After the Vaterland had also courted some of these papers, talks were held from 1969 onwards in order to join forces and create a large Catholic newspaper with regional editions in the long term.

[5] The NZN itself and the support of its smaller partner newspapers could only be financed from the profits of the printing house in Zürich's Seefeld quarter.

The Ostschweiz took over the delivery of the cover pages, production, shipping, collection and accounting in exchange for the subscription and advertising revenues.

From the end of 1899 to 1902, the writer Heinrich Federer was editor-in-chief, and in the 1920s and 1930s, Emil Buomberger, later a CSP city councillor, headed the editorial office.

In addition to a trade section edited by the publishing house (Wirtschaftsbund), there were a number of weekly Sunday supplements: Katholische Kultur ("Catholic Culture"), Wissenschaft und Technik ("Science and Technology"), Literarische Warte, Die Welt der Frau ("Woman's World"), Die Scholle and Der Erzähler.