Tessiner Zeitung is a Swiss German-language regional newspaper, published in Locarno, Ticino.

Tessiner Zeitung was first published in Locarno on 1 September 1908 and was founded by Pietro Giugno.

[1][2] In May 1918 the paper was acquired by a group of journalists who published another newspaper Freie Zeitung.

[3] The paper was published three times per week and had a circulation of 5,000 copies at the beginning of the 1990s.

[4] Then the paper began to be published weekly on Fridays.