TagesWoche is a hybrid online

Online newspaper

An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web or Internet, either separately or as an online version of a printed periodical....

 and print

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 Swiss newspaper published in Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

 by Neue Medien Basel AG. A daily edition appears online, and a weekly edition in print on Fridays . The first edition appeared on 28 October 2011.
The project is a reaction to the events surrounding Basler Zeitung

Basler Zeitung

Basler Zeitung is a regional newspaper, published in Basel, Switzerland. The German-language daily was created through the merger of National-Zeitung and Basler Nachrichten in 1977. It is owned by the Basler Zeitung Medien who also publishes the free daily newspaper Baslerstab.-External links:*...

, the traditional daily newspaper of Basel, which had financial problems and was finally sold off in November 2010.
Editors in chief are Urs Buess and Remo Leupin, leading a team of 17, many of whom formerly journalists at Basler Zeitung.