Népszava

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Népszava
Népszava logó 2010.png
description Hungarian daily newspaper
publishing company Népszava Lapkiadó Kft.
Headquarters Budapest
First edition 1877
Frequency of publication daily / saturday
Sold edition 10,522 copies
Editor-in-chief Péter Németh
Web link nepszava.hu
ISSN (print) 1418-1649
ISSN (online) 0133-1701

Népszava (literally 'people's voice') is a social democratic national daily newspaper in Hungary .

history

It was founded in Budapest in 1877 by Viktor Külföldi , making it the oldest Hungarian daily newspaper. In 1940 the future president Árpád Szakasits also became editor-in-chief. Until 1948 Népszava was the official newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary (MSZDP), then - in the period of communism until 1989 - the newspaper of the official Hungarian trade unions .

After the system change, the newspaper was privatized and was initially largely owned by Hungarian companies. Before the parliamentary elections in 1994, there was again a closeness to the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), which accounted for almost a third of the election coverage. At the end of the 1990s, the Hungarian VICO publishing group held the majority of the shares in Népszava and made the newspaper more liberal . After the paper suffered losses, VICO sold its shares to the newspaper's editors in early 2000. Five years later the entrepreneur and chairman of the re-established MSZDP László Kapolyi bought the newspaper. A study by the European Stability Initiative from 2010 placed the Népszava on the left of the Népszabadság in the political spectrum and identified a focus on domestic political issues.

On December 3, 2010, Népszava appeared in protest against the government's plans to amend the constitution to tighten media control by the State Agency for Media and Communication ( Nemzeti Média- és Hírközlési Hatóság ) with a blank title page.

In October 2016 Népszava was sold to the Swiss Marquard Media Group . After the Népszabadság was discontinued in the same month, the Reuters news agency named Népszava, alongside Magyar Nemzet, the “only significant opposition daily newspaper” in Hungary.

Edition

Between 1989 and 1993, the Népszava circulation had more than halved from 222,000 to 103,000. At the end of 2009 it was the sixth largest national daily newspaper in Hungary with a circulation of 31,742. In 2016, the circulation was 10,522 copies per day. However, the trend of sharply falling circulation numbers could be observed in all major political daily newspapers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Újabb 2000 vásárlót veszített Simicska lapja. In: mfor.hu . September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Marina Popescu, Gábor Tóka: Campaign Effects in the 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Copenhagen 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Communicating Europe: Hungary Manual. Information and contacts on the Hungarian debate on EU enlargement. European Stability Initiative, December 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Nepszava" appeared in protest on an empty title page. In: ORF.at . December 3, 2010, accessed January 28, 2017.
  5. ^ Hungary: Left newspaper "Nepszava" sold. In: The Standard . October 14, 2016, accessed February 17, 2017
  6. ↑ Marton Dunai, Gergely Szakacs: Hungary media shake-up Enters new phase with closure of major leftist daily. In: Reuters. October 12, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2017.