What is the Tageblatt?
The Tageblatt is a daily newspaper. Its imprint names the publisher as Editpress Luxembourg S.A., a société anonyme at 7, avenue du Rock'n'Roll, Esch-sur-Alzette, registered as RCS B 5407.[1] Its site at tageblatt.lu was published mainly in German on 26 September 2026, with some articles in French among the home-page listings.[2]
The Euromedia Ownership Monitor's Luxembourg report of December 2025 states: “Editpress, the publishing company of Tageblatt (26,000 readers in 2022) (Ilres, 2022), was the first to develop media diversification at the turn of the century.”[3] Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 entry, states: “In the south of the country, Tageblatt, a media outlet owned by a left-wing labour union, is losing ground.”[4] Those are the two bodies' descriptions; the union is not named in either passage read.
What does the Tageblatt cover?
The Tageblatt is a general daily. On 26 September 2026 the main navigation of its site ran, in German, through Luxemburg, Politik, Meinung, Lokal, International, Wirtschaft, Kultur and Sport, and the Sport menu was divided into two headings, Fußball and andere Sportarten, other sports. The site also offered an E-Paper edition.[2] The government's 2013 overview had already recorded that “Le Luxemburger Wort, le Tageblatt, Le Quotidien et Le Jeudi peuvent être téléchargés, contre paiement, sur les sites respectifs” — that the paper could then be downloaded, for payment, from its site.[8]
The membership list of sportspress.lu, the association of sports journalists, dated 25 February 2026, includes members from the Tageblatt among its journalists and among its photographers.[5] The association's committee, in office “depuis février 2026” according to its page, lists members from the Tageblatt as its president, its secretary-general, its treasurer and a committee member.[6]
How large is the Tageblatt's audience?
Readership in Luxembourg's press is measured by ILRES. Its Étude Presse 2025 was commissioned by the publishers Mediahuis, Edita and Editpress; Adada.lu reported that it surveyed 3,520 residents and 806 cross-border workers, and that daily print newspapers reached 50.7 per cent of residents. Among the active population it reported a daily print reach of 251,600, or 47.4 per cent, and a weekly print reach of 379,300, or 71.5 per cent.[7] Those are market figures; no per-title figure for the Tageblatt from that study could be retrieved, because ILRES's own site could not be fetched.
The most recent per-title figure retrieved is the Euromedia Ownership Monitor's: 26,000 readers in 2022, which it attributes to ILRES's 2022 study.[3] The government's 2013 overview gave “une distribution de quelque 18000 journaux”; that figure dates from the early 2010s.[8]
Since when has the Tageblatt existed?
The government's information service, in its overview of Luxembourg media of January 2013, states: “Tageblatt, journal de tendance socialiste fondé en 1913, atteint une distribution de quelque 18000 journaux et une pénétration de 13,3%, surtout dans le sud du pays.”[8] That is, it was founded in 1913 and then reached a penetration of 13.3 per cent, mainly in the south; the description of its tendency and the figures are the government's 2013 wording.
The imprint retrieved on 26 September 2026 names Editpress Luxembourg S.A. as publisher.[1] The Euromedia Ownership Monitor, in December 2025, records Editpress as the first Luxembourg publisher “to develop media diversification at the turn of the century”; the same report records that the free daily L'essentiel was “set up with the Swiss company TX Group AG (previously Tamedia)”.[3]
Why does the Tageblatt matter in Luxembourg's sport?
The Tageblatt is one of the two paid-for dailies that the Euromedia Ownership Monitor describes in these words: “Mediahuis Luxembourg and Editpress control the two most widely circulated paid-for print dailies, around which public debate has long revolved”.[3] Members from the Tageblatt hold the presidency, the secretary-generalship and the treasury of the national sports journalists' association, according to that association's committee page.[6]
Two monitoring bodies describe the print market it belongs to. The Media Pluralism Monitor's Luxembourg 2026 page, last modified on 2 July 2026, states: “CLT-UFA (RTL) dominates the television and radio sectors while EditPress and Mediahuis maintain control over the print press.”[9] It adds: “There are currently no concentration limits or cross-media ownership rules in place.”[9] Reporters Without Borders states: “The leading daily newspapers have seen a decline in subscriptions and advertising in recent years, which has forced them to reorient their activities. In the name of pluralism, a law passed in 2021 provides each journalist with 30,000 euros a year in state aid and every publication with a lump sum of 200,000 euros.” It also states: “For the most part, the media operate independently and journalists enjoy plenty of freedom from political power.”[4] Those are the two bodies' words.
References
- Tageblatt — Impressum (Editpress Luxembourg S.A., Esch-sur-Alzette; RCS B 5407). Accessed 2026-09-26.
- Tageblatt — tageblatt.lu home page (navigation; Sport: Fußball, andere Sportarten), as retrieved 26 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-26.
- Euromedia Ownership Monitor — Luxembourg, country report 2025 edition (Christian Lamour, LISER; December 2025). Accessed 2026-09-26.
- Reporters Without Borders — 2026 World Press Freedom Index, Luxembourg (rank 9 of 180, score 84.14; media landscape, economic context). Accessed 2026-09-26.
- sportspress.lu, association des journalistes sportifs — Nos membres (situation au 25.02.2026). Accessed 2026-09-26.
- sportspress.lu — Comité. Accessed 2026-09-26.
- Adada.lu — Audiences des médias au Luxembourg en 2025 : deux études ILRES distinctes pour supplanter Plurimédia (7 October 2025). Accessed 2026-09-26.
- Service information et presse du gouvernement luxembourgeois — À propos des médias au Luxembourg (January 2013) (PDF). Accessed 2026-09-26.
- Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom — Luxembourg 2026, Media Pluralism Monitor country page (last modified 2 July 2026). Accessed 2026-09-26.