Lidové noviny

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Lidové noviny
Lidové-noviny-Logo.svg
description Subscription daily newspaper
publishing company AGF media as
First edition 1893
Frequency of publication Monday - Saturday
Sold edition 72,980 copies
(08/2006 ABC ČR)
Range 0.232 million readers
(Media project 1Q / 2Q 2006)
Editor-in-chief Dalibor Balšínek
editor Lidové noviny, as
Web link lidovky.cz

The Lidové noviny (German: People's Newspaper ), also called “Lidovky” for short, is a Czech (formerly Czechoslovakian ) daily newspaper .

history

Title page of the first edition on December 16, 1893

The Lidové noviny was founded in Brno by Adolf Stránský in 1893 and is therefore the oldest Czech newspaper that still exists under its original name. In the 1920s the newspaper gained its reputation as the newspaper of the intellectuals. The editorial office in Brno became less and less important over time, as it rivaled the one in Prague . After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , many of the editors were deported and replaced by German or German-friendly editors.

Svobodné noviny after 1945

After the newspaper was briefly discontinued in April 1945 because all newspapers that appeared during the time of the Protectorate were banned, it went to print again on May 23, 1945, albeit with different publishers and under the title Svobodné noviny (not until May 9 In 1948 the original name of the newspaper was re-approved). As early as February 1948, the then editor-in-chief Ferdinand Peroutka was dismissed and replaced by a communist , which quickly caused the newspaper to lose its image as a non-partisan newspaper. This led to the discontinuation in 1952.

After 1988/89

It was not until January 1988 that the paper appeared again for the first time, at that time still underground, with a foreword by the future President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Václav Havel . Despite all the problems with the regime, the paper appeared almost regularly in its first year. Since January 5, 1990, it has appeared legally again and from April of the same year again daily. Until 2013, Lidové noviny belonged to the Rheinisch-Bergische Verlagsgesellschaft , which publishes, among other things, the Rheinische Post . The publishing company sold the newspaper to the highest bidder in the course of the newspaper crisis. Lidové noviny and Mláda fronta Dnes switched to oligarch Andrej Babiš , the second richest Czech in 2013 . He owns the Agrofert holding. A circulation of around 70,000 pieces is achieved.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Czech Republic: Journalists under increasing pressure. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .