Mladá fronta Dnes

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Mladá fronta Dnes
The front page of Mladá fronta Dnes on 16 May 2012
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)MAFRA, a.s.
EditorJaroslav Plesl
Founded1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Political alignmentRight-wing conservative,[1] neoliberal
LanguageCzech
HeadquartersPrague
Websitehttp://www.mfdnes.cz

Mladá fronta Dnes (Young Front Today), also known as MF DNES or simply Dnes (Today), is a daily newspaper based in the Czech Republic.[1] As of 2016, it is the second-largest Czech newspaper,[2] after the tabloid Blesk.

History and profile[edit]

Headquarters of Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové Noviny in Prague.

Mladá fronta Dnes is owned by Mafra a.s., a subsidiary of the Agrofert group, a company owned by the former Czech Prime Minister (from 2018), Andrej Babiš. MAFRA a.s. was previously the Czech subsidiary of the German group Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH[3] (the publisher of the Rheinische Post), that bought it from French press group Socpresse in 1994.

The newspaper is published in Berliner format.[4] It consists of four sections, one of which contains regional content. Its orientation can be described as right-wing conservative.[1]

Circulation of Mladá fronta DNES[edit]

  • 2001: 338,000 copies[4]
  • 2002: 312,000 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country)[5]
  • 2003: 316,206 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country)[6]
  • 2006: 300,000 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country)[7]
  • 2008: 291,711 copies[8]
  • 2009: 256,118 copies[8]
  • 2010: 239,646 copies[8]
  • 2011: 222,377 copies[8]
  • 2013: The newspaper had the highest circulation in the country.[9]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "The Czech media landscape - print media". Wien International. Archived from the original on 25 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Deníky: Nejčtenější je Blesk, Sport předběhl Právo". Mediaguru (in Czech).
  3. ^ "The press in the Czech Republic". BBC. 10 December 2005. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
  4. ^ a b Smith, Adam (15 November 2002). "Europe's Top Papers". Campaign Live. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  5. ^ "World Press Trends 2003" (PDF). Paris: World Association of Newspapers. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  6. ^ Milan Smid. "Czech Republic" (PDF). Mirovni Institut. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  7. ^ Georgios Terzis, ed. (2007). European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions. Intellect Books. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  8. ^ a b c d "National newspapers total circulation". International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Tabloid Blesk continues to be most popular daily". Prague Daily Monitor. 8 November 2013. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.

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