| Tessiner Zeitung | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Founder: | Pietro Giugno |
| Language: | German |
| Headquarters: | Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland |
| Circulation: | 10,002 (2003) |
| Issn: | 1660-9697 |
| Oclc: | 173873821 |
| Website: | tessinerzeitung.ch |
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] In May 1918 the paper was acquired by a group of journalists who published another newspaper Freie Zeitung.[2]
The paper was published three times per week and had a circulation of 5,000 copies at the beginning of the 1990s.[3] Then the paper began to be published weekly on Fridays. According to WEMF AG, the newspaper had a circulation of 10,002, .