- SME (newspaper)
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SME Type Daily newspaper Publisher Petit Press Editor-in-chief Matúš Kostolný Founded January 1993 Political alignment Centre-right[1],
liberal[2][3]Language Slovak Headquarters Bratislava, Slovakia Circulation 76 590 (Dec. 2006) Sister newspapers The Slovak Spectator, Új Szó, Korzár and various regional My noviny newspapers[4] Official website http://www.sme.sk SME or Denník SME ("(we) ARE daily") is the most widely read and very influential mainstream broadsheet in Slovakia.[5]
Its target group is very wide, but officially it focuses on readers in bigger cities and agglomerations. Its circulation in December 2006 was 76 590. It appears 6 times a week. It is issued by Petit Press, a. s. and its editor-in-chief is Matúš Kostolný. The former managing editors were Martin M. Šimečka and founding editor-in-chief was Karol Ježík.
The newspaper was founded in mid-January 1993 by a group of journalist of the well-established daily Smena, who left that daily due to differences over editorial policies and control. They accused the government under Vladimír Mečiar of having the Smena's editor-in-chief removed from his post indirectly by means of political influence. The newspaper was oriented strongly against governments under Vladimír Mečiar (an attitude that intensified after January 1993) and in favour of other governments. It is a rather centrist to right-wing newspaper now.
In 1995, the newspaper merged with the daily Smena (whose readers switched to SME after 1993) and in 2004 (?) with another major Slovak daily – the daily Práca - "Work".
Online version
SME established an online presence in 1993, SME.sk. In 2004, they opened a blog platform for experts. It opened up to the wider public 6 months after the launch and now boasts 14,000 bloggers[6].
According to Google, SME.sk has about 80,000 daily readers.[7]
References
- ^ SME, presseurop, http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/source-information/467-sme, retrieved 23 June 2011
- ^ Gati says Hungarian gov’t is isolated, Hungary Around the Clock, 23 May 2011, http://hatc.hu/editor_article.php?aid=3334, retrieved 23 June 2011
- ^ Czech trade unions no opponent, eurotopics, 17 June 2011, http://www.eurotopics.net/en/archiv/article/ARTICLE89083-Czech-trade-unions-no-opponent, retrieved 22 June 2011
- ^ Petit Press.sk
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- ^ Ideas from SME.sk, Europe's most innovative news site, in Window on the Media on Oct. 8, 2008
- ^ Google Trends for website:SME.sk
Categories:- Newspapers published in Slovakia
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