One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung,[REF] edited by the Swiss painter and poet Salomon Gessner, on 12 January 1780,[REF][REF] and was renamed as Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1821.
Aside from the switch from its Blackletter typeface in 1946, the newspaper has changed little since the 1930s.