newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012. Archives In 2005, the complete run of the newspaper's first 225 years was scanned from microfilm. A total of two million images comprising seventy terabytes, and its Blackletter type was scanned using optical character recognition at a total cost of €600,000 (or €0.30 per image). The result is a searchable digital archive, accessible online by subscribers and publicly on site in Zurich. The digitization was carried out by an institute of the German research organization Fraunhofer Society the Institute for Media Communication (since 2006, the ), headquartered in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia. NZZ Libro NZZ Libro is the book publisher of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Books have been published since 1927; since 1980, the publishing house has been run as a separate profit centre. Since 2006 the publishing house has been operating under the name NZZ Libro. The publishing programme of specialist and non-fiction literature includes, among other things, political, cultural, historical and economic books, as well as biographies and illustrated books, predominantly with a Swiss reference. Award The Neue Zürcher Zeitung was the recipient of the 1979 Erasmus Prize. See also List of newspapers in Switzerland Notes and references Further reading Luchsinger, Fred. Neue Zürcher Zeitung im Zeitalter des zweiten Weltkrieges, 1930–1955 (Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1955) Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 211–219 NZZ (Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2013) Wiskemann, Elizabeth. A great swiss newspaper: the story of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Oxford University Press, 1959) Friedemann Bartu: Umbruch. Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Ein kritisches Porträt. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-280-05716-2. External links 18th-century establishments in the Old Swiss Confederacy 1780 establishments in Europe Daily newspapers published in Switzerland German-language newspapers published in Switzerland Newspapers published in Zürich Newspapers established in 1780 Swiss news websites Liberal media