Právo

Not to be confused with Rudé právo.

Právo
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherBorgis
EditorZdeněk Porybný
Founded1991; 33 years ago (1991)
Political alignmentCentre-left, social democrat, pro-Social Democratic Party
HeadquartersPrague
Circulation112,000 (as of 2012)
Websitepravo.cz

Právo (in Czech Right or Law) is a Czech daily newspaper published in Prague, Czech Republic.[1]

History and profile

Právo emerged in 1991[2] following the Velvet Revolution, when some editors of the daily Rudé právo founded a new company unaffiliated with the Czechoslovak Communist Party but taking advantage of the existing reader base.[1] The paper is not directly linked to any political party, but is ideologically close to the Czech Social Democratic Party.[3] It maintains a left-wing stance[1][4] and tends to focus on social issues.[5]

In 2019, Právo allowed the Chinese embassy to produce an eight-page paid supplement to the paper labelled as a "theme and commercial supplement". The articles featured exclusively positive coverage of China and were signed by the paper’s reporters.[6]

Právo is published in Prague by Borgis,[2][7] a stock company that issues only Právo and its supplements,[1] owned for 91% by the paper's editor-in-chief, Zdeněk Porybný [cs].[5] The paper is published in broadsheet format.[8]

Circulation

The circulation of Právo was 205,000 copies in 2002, making it the third best selling newspaper in the country.[8] In October 2003 the paper had a circulation of 189,583 copies and was again the third most read newspaper in the Czech Republic.[7] In December 2004 the circulation of the paper was 189,583 copies.[9]

The 2007 circulation of Právo was 164,157 copies. The circulation of the paper was 145,031 copies in 2008 and 138,476 copies in 2009.[10] It was 128,404 copies in 2010 and 120,449 copies in 2011.[10] Between April and September 2012 Právo had a circulation of 112,000 copies.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "The Czech media landscape - print media". Wien International. Archived from the original on 25 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "Media Landscape Media Claims" (PDF). European Social Survey. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  3. ^ Gawrecká, Daniela (November 2013). "Who Watches the Watchmen?" (Discussion Paper). Prague: Institute of Sociology. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  4. ^ Nečas, Vlastimil (2009). "Constitutional debate in the Czech Republic" (PDF). Central European Journal of Communication. 2 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  5. ^ a b "The press in the Czech Republic". BBC News. BBC. 10 December 2005. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
  6. ^ Karásková, Ivana. "How China Influences Media in Central and Eastern Europe". The Diplomat. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  7. ^ a b Smid, Milan. "Czech Republic" (PDF). Mirovni Institut. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  8. ^ a b "World Press Trends 2003" (PDF). Paris: World Association of Newspapers. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  9. ^ Kroupa, Vladimir; Smid, Milan (13 May 2005). "Media System of the Czech Republic" (Report). Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institut. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  10. ^ a b "National newspapers total circulation". International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations. Retrieved 5 December 2014.