The tz (for Tageszeitung, German for daily newspaper) is a Munich-based tabloid, which belongs to the media group Münchner Merkur/tz from publisher Dirk Ippen.

Editors are the Münchner Merkur owners, Dirk Ippen and Alfons Döser, who is also CEO of Oberbayerisches Volksblatt.

[2] In 1982, the Westphalian publisher Dirk Ippen bought the Münchner Zeitungsverlag, to which the tz belonged also.

In February 2008, tz Live was transformed into the multimedia news portal tz-online.de, which since 4 December 2013 can be found under the domain tz.de.

The thematic focus is on local news from Munich and Upper Bavaria, as well as sports and boulevard topics.