Magyar Hírlap
Magyar Hírlap ( Hungarian for Hungarian Journal ) is a small conservative daily newspaper in Hungary owned by right-wing conservative entrepreneur Gábor Széles . The newspaper appears six times a week with a circulation of 25,000 copies.
In 1990 the circulation was 100,000 copies, which put the newspaper in fourth place in Hungary. That year, a group of investors led by Robert Maxwell with a 40 percent stake in the newspaper.
history
Magyar Hírlap , the government newspaper during communist times, was considered the mouthpiece of the left-wing liberals in the 1990s , but went bankrupt in 2005. To save them from total disappearance, the conservative multimillionaire Gábor Széles took over the newspaper. Today the newspaper sees itself as much more critical of left-wing liberalism than the other conservative daily, the Magyar Nemzet . Magyar Hírlap is owned by a conservative media group that also owns a television station, Echo Tv .
Since the beginning of 2009 the newspaper has been appearing with a very colorful layout and tries to position itself as the Hungarian counterpart of newspapers such as the French France Soir or the Austrian Kurier : This is why the paper is characterized by a mix of politics and the boulevard.
editorial staff
- Editor-in-chief: István Stefka (former employee of the daily Magyar Nemzet )
- Deputy editors-in-chief: Pál Dippold (former head of the cultural department of the weekly newspaper Demokrata ), Gergely Huth (former head of internal politics at Magyar Nemzet ), László Zöldi Szentesi (former head of foreign affairs at Magyar Nemzet )
- Head of duty: Sándor Faggyas (former head of the cultural department of the weekly newspaper Heti Válasz )
Political direction and authors
Magyar Hírlap represents an anti-globalist , nationalist position in both foreign and domestic politics. The newspaper's comments are characterized by a certain variety, as not only moderate conservatives and right-wing liberals , but also critics of globalization and right-wing extremists have their say. Her most important authors include the anti-globalization economist László Bogár , the national conservative literary historian Zoltán Bíró , the metaphysician Attila Vegh , the young poet Orsolya Péntek , the New Right essayist Zsolt Bayer , the longtime publicist Balázs Várkonyi , the right-wing liberal political scientist Tamás Fricz , liberal literature professor Csaba Gy. Kiss and the young liberal journalist Gellért Rajcsányi .
Web links
- Website of the Magyar Hírlap (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Upheavel in the East; Hungary; British Publisher Buys Share of Hungarian Paper . In: The New York Times , February 14, 1990, accessed August 26, 2008.
- ↑ magyarhirlap.hu .