Blikk
{{short description|Hungarian daily tabloid newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
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| name = Blikk
| logo = Blikk logo.jpeg
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = Ringier AG.
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| website = {{URL|https://www.blikk.hu/}}
| publisher = Ringier
| editor =
| president =
| chiefeditor = Balázs Kolossváry
| assoceditor =
| maneditor =
| advertisingdirector =
| generalmanager = Tibor Kovács
| newseditor =
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| foundation = 1 March 1994
| political =
| language = Hungarian
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| headquarters = Budapest
| publishing_country = Hungary
| circulation = 38,000 (2024)
| sister newspapers =
| ISSN = 1785-4830
| free =
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Blikk (Blink) is a Hungarian daily tabloid newspaper published in Budapest, Hungary, owned by the Swiss media company Ringier. It is one of four tabloid dailies on the Hungarian market including Színes Ász, Bors and Ripost.[http://www.digitalhungary.hu/media/Utcan-a-Ripost-Rapid-interju-omolnar-Miklossal/3609/ Digital Hungary – Utcán a Ripost – Rapid interjú Ómolnár Miklóssal]{{Cite web|url=https://www.origo.hu/teve/20160519-lokal-napilap-indulasa-leitner-attila-foszerkeszto-az-origonak.html|title=Érezni fogja a különbséget a Metropol és a Lokál között|last=Origo|website=origo.hu/|language=hu|access-date=24 September 2019}}
History and profile
Blikk began publishing on 1 March 1994. The newspaper was originally owned by Szikra, but the ownership changed to Ringier in 2004. The paper is a tabloid publication and has no clear political affiliation. The paper is published in tabloid format and has its headquarters in Budapest.
In addition to the Blikk newspaper, other publications with the Blikk name are also available, such as the Sunday edition called Vasárnapi Blikk (began in the late 1990s), the entertainment magazine named Blikk TV Magazin and Blikk Nők, a publication targeted at women, which also includes Blikk Nők Extra, Blikk Nők Otthon & Kert, Blikk Nők Konyha, Blikk Nők Egészség and Blikk Nők 100 recept.
Its circulation was 85,000 copies in 1998.{{cite journal|author1=Mihály Gálik|author2=Beverly James|title=Ownership and control of the Hungarian press|journal=The Public|year=1999|volume=6|issue=2|url=http://javnost-thepublic.org/article/pdf/1999/2/5/|accessdate=12 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112082705/http://javnost-thepublic.org/article/pdf/1999/2/5/|archive-date=12 November 2014|url-status=dead}} The circulation of the paper was 242,000 copies in 2003.{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|publisher=World Association of Newspapers|accessdate=15 February 2015|location=Paris|year=2004}} Blikk had a circulation of 265,199 copies in 2009, making it the second most read daily in the country.{{cite web|title=Communicating Europe: Hungary Manual|url=http://www.esiweb.org/pdf/enlargement_debates_manual_hungary.pdf|publisher=European Stability Initiative|accessdate=26 November 2014|date=December 2010}} It was about 150,000 copies in 2013. The circulation decreased to 50,017 in 2022.{{cite web|title=tovabb-zsugorodik-a-nyomtatott-sajto|url=https://hang.hu/media/tovabb-zsugorodik-a-nyomtatott-sajto-144504|access-date=29 August 2022|date=15 August 2022}}
List of editors-in-chief
- Péter Tőke (1994–1996)
- Tamás Ligeti Nagy (1996–1997)
- Ferenc Pallagi (1997–2004)
- Gábor Fejes (2004–2006)
- Marcell Murányi (2006–2014)
- Balázs Kolossváry (2014–2016)
- Norbert Gedei (2016–2020)
- Balázs Kolossváry (2020–present)
See also
References
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