{{Short description|Swiss newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | image = Walliser Bote.png | type = Daily newspaper | founded = 1840 | language = German | headquarters = Brig, Canton of Valais | publishing_country = Switzerland | circulation = 24,046 | circulation_date = 2012 | circulation_ref = <ref name="Grichting" /> | ISSN = 1660-0657 | eISSN = 2571-8908 | oclc = 610964848 | website = {{URL|https://walliserbote.ch/}} | free = [https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=cl&cl=CL1&l=en&sp=WAB e-newspaperarchives.ch] }}
The '''{{lang|de|Walliser Bote}}''' is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper established in 1840, published in the Canton of Valais. Established in 1840 as the {{Lang|de|Der Nachläufer}} before becoming the {{lang|de|Walliser Bote}}, it had an inconsistent first few decades before establishing itself in 1869. It became a daily in 1969. It was the first German-language paper in Valais.
== History == The paper was founded in the Canton of Valais on 28 July 1840.<ref name="e-npa.ch2016">{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Walliser Bote |url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=cl&cl=CL1&l=en&sp=WAB |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=e-newspaperarchives.ch |language=en}}</ref> It is published out of Sion, Switzerland, and was the first German-language paper in Valais. Its initial editor was Alois von Riedmatten.<ref name="Grichting">{{HDS|024850|author=Grichting, Alois|date=27 December 2014}}</ref> It was founded as the {{Lang|de|Der Nachläufer}} as an insertion for the {{Lang|fr|Bulletin officiel}} paper, becoming its own paper a few weeks later as the {{lang|de|Walliser Bote}}.<ref name="e-npa.ch2016" /> It was until 1900 staffed by the laity, and until 1930 was by Catholic priests.<ref name="Grichting" />
Its initial period was inconsistent, with it briefly becoming a bilingual paper and renaming itself {{Lang|fr|Le Messager Valaisan}}. It then ceased publication for a decade, before reappearing from 1851 to 1852, but only briefly.<ref name="e-npa.ch2016" /> It would reappear in 1858 as the {{lang|de|Walliser Wochenblatt}}, before returning to {{lang|de|Walliser Bote}} in 1869 and being published consistently from then on.<ref name="e-npa.ch2016" /><ref name="Grichting" /> From 1916 to 1935 it was published by the company Oberwalliser Presseverein AG, and from 1935 on was published by Mengis Druck & Verlag AG of Visp, which had printed the paper for the past three years.<ref name="Grichting" /> In 1954 the paper established an editorial team with an editor-in-chief.<ref name="Grichting" />
The paper was first a weekly, then made a twice weekly in 1901, then a thrice weekly in 1965, and ultimately a daily paper in 1969.<ref name="Grichting" /> At this time it was the dominant paper in the German speaking areas of the canton, dominating its competition. Early in its history it had party ties and was Catholic and conservative in orientation, but it became independent in 1981.<ref name="e-npa.ch2016" /><ref name="Grichting" /> Following the end of the rival paper {{Lang|de|Walliser Volksfreund}}, it had a similar position in the market as the ''Le Nouvelliste'' paper of Francophone Valais.<ref name="e-npa.ch2016" /> In 2012 its circulation was 24,046.<ref name="Grichting" />
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== Further reading == * {{Cite book |last=Grichting |first=Alois |title=Das Oberwallis, 1840 bis 1990: Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur: 150 Jahre Walliser Bote |publisher=Rotten |year=1990 |location=Brig |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Lugon |first=Antoine |title=La presse écrite en Valais: origines, principaux courants, évolution |last2=Ebneter |first2=Curdin |publisher=Vallesia, Archives de l'Etat du Valais |year=2008 |isbn=978-2-9700382-9-0 |edition=gekürzte Fassung |series=Cahiers de Vallesia |location=Sion |language=fr}}
== External links == * {{Official website}} * {{e-npa.ch|id=WAB}}
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Category:1840s establishments in Switzerland Category:Daily newspapers published in Switzerland Category:German-language newspapers published in Switzerland Category:Newspapers established in 1840