Kroonika
{{Short description|Estonian magazine}}
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Kroonika (meaning The Chronicle in English){{cite web|title=Kroonika|url=http://kirjastus.ee/admin/upload/images/Kroonika_ENG.pdf|publisher=Kirjastus|accessdate=4 September 2014}} is an Estonian magazine. It is most popular among young Estonian-speaking readers aged between 13 and 30.
History and profile
Kroonika was established in 1996.{{cite book|author=Barbi Pilvre|chapter=Estonian men’s lifestyle magazine 'Mees': a manual of masculine identity in a transition society|title=Back in the West |series=Baltische Studien zur Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaft|editor=Airi-Alina Allaste|chapter-url=https://www.etis.ee/File/DownloadPublic/49c2027c-cc4f-439b-b714-863e081460dd?name=Fail_Est.men%C2%B4s%20lifestyle%20manual.pdf&type=application%2Fpdf|accessdate=22 April 2017 |isbn=9783653029345 |doi=10.3726/978-3-653-02934-5|year=2013}} Its previous publishers were Kroonpress Ltd. and AS Ajakirjade Kirjastus.{{cite web|title=AS Ajakirjade Kirjastus|url=http://www.egrupp.ee/companies/as-ajakirjade-kirjastus|work=Ekspress Grupp|accessdate=4 September 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904150059/http://www.egrupp.ee/companies/as-ajakirjade-kirjastus|archivedate=4 September 2014}} The magazine is published by in the Estonian language{{cite web|title=Kroonpress|url=https://printinestonia.eu/members-contact/kroonpress-as/ |work=Printin Estonia|accessdate=10 April 2020}} and includes gossip and news on the country's biggest celebrities. It is published weekly on Fridays and is based in Tallinn. Its editor-in-chief is Ingrid Veidenberg.
Erika Salumäe, an Estonian track bicycle racer and Olympic champion, sued the magazine for publishing damaging and insulting news about her in 2016.{{cite news|title=Estonian court tells gossip magazine to pay 9,500 euros to Olympic champion Salumäe|url=http://www.baltic-course.com/eng2/legislation/?doc=144813&output=d&ins_print|accessdate=10 April 2020|work=The Baltic Course|date=1 November 2018|location=Tallinn}} In 2018 the publisher, Ekspress Meedia, was ordered by the court to pay Salumäe 9,500 Euros.
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External links
{{Official website|https://kroonika.delfi.ee/}}
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Category:1996 establishments in Estonia
Category:Estonian-language magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1996
Category:Magazines published in Estonia
Category:Mass media in Tallinn
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