Mladá fronta Dnes
{{Short description|Czech newspaper}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Mladá fronta Dnes
| logo = Mladá-fronta-dnes-Logo.svg
| logo_size = 175px
| image = Mfdnes16May2012.jpg
| caption = The front page of Mladá fronta Dnes on 16 May 2012
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Berliner
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1945}}
| owners = Mafra
| political = {{Unbulleted list|Conservatism|Economic liberalism}}
| headquarters = Prague
| editor = Jaroslav Plesl
| language = Czech
| website = {{URL|mfdnes.cz}}
}}
Mladá fronta Dnes ({{Lit|Young Front Today}}), also known as MF Dnes or simply Dnes, is a daily newspaper based in the Czech Republic.{{Cite web|title=The Czech media landscape {{!}} print media|url=http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/11577|url-status=dead|website=Wien International|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110325070306/http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/11577|archive-date=25 March 2011}} As of 2016, it is the second-largest Czech newspaper,{{cite web|title=Deníky: Nejčtenější je Blesk, Sport předběhl Právo|url=https://www.mediaguru.cz/2016/05/deniky-nejctenejsi-je-blesk-sport-predbehl-pravo/|website=Mediaguru|language=cs}} after the tabloid Blesk.
History and profile
File:Praha, Anděl, Sídlo MF a LN II.JPG
Mladá fronta Dnes is owned by Mafra a.s., a subsidiary of the Agrofert group, a company owned by the former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Mafra was previously the Czech subsidiary of the German group Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei - und Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4068647.stm|title=The press in the Czech Republic|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=10 December 2005|access-date=13 December 2008}} the publisher of the Rheinische Post that bought it from French press group Socpresse in 1994.
The newspaper is published in Berliner format.{{Cite news|first=Adam|last=Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=Campaign Live|date=15 November 2002}} It consists of four sections, one of which contains regional content. Its orientation can be described as right-wing conservative.
Circulation of ''Mladá fronta Dnes''
- 2001: 338,000 copies
- 2002: 312,000 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country){{Cite web|title=World Press Trends 2003|url=http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|publisher=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108215853/http://www.wan-press.org/IMG/pdf/2003wpt.pdf|archive-date=8 November 2017|url-status=dead}}
- 2003: 316,206 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country){{Cite web|first=Milan|last=Smid|title=Czech Republic|url=http://www2.mirovni-institut.si/media_ownership/pdf/czech%20republic.pdf|publisher=Mirovni Institut|access-date=28 October 2014}}
- 2006: 300,000 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country){{Cite book|editor=Georgios Terzis|title=European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68nbtqst-CsC&pg=PA340|access-date=13 December 2013|year=2007|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-192-5|page=340}}
- 2008: 291,711 copies
- 2009: 256,118 copies{{cite web|title=National newspapers total circulation|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=5 December 2014}}
- 2010: 239,646 copies
- 2011: 222,377 copies
- 2013: The newspaper had the highest circulation in the country.{{Cite news|title=Tabloid Blesk continues to be most popular daily|url=http://praguemonitor.com/2013/11/08/tabloid-blesk-continues-be-most-popular-daily|url-status=dead|newspaper=Prague Daily Monitor|date=8 November 2013|access-date=13 December 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131213074641/http://praguemonitor.com/2013/11/08/tabloid-blesk-continues-be-most-popular-daily|archive-date=13 December 2013}}
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{Official website}}
- [http://www.idnes.cz/ iDNES, the independent Internet portal of Mladá fronta Dnes] {{In lang|cs}}
{{Eastern Bloc media}}
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Category:Czech-language newspapers
Category:Newspapers published in Prague
Category:Daily newspapers published in the Czech Republic