Týden

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The Czech weekly newsmagazine Týden focuses mainly on news and news analysis. Since 2000 it has been published by Mediacop. In 2005, it was voted “Magazine of the Year” in the news-and-society category by the Union of Publishers.

Týden was founded in 1994 and soon became part of the Alex Springer media concern. Four years later, the magazine was bought by Ringier, the Swiss publishing house which in turn sold it to the current owner, Swiss developer Sebastian Georg Pawlowski, in 2000.

Coming out every Monday, Týden's over one-hundred pages are structured into five main sections – News, World, Business, Culture, and Modern Life. The magazine offers regular supplements and extras, such as Bank of the Year, Cars, Investments, Living, Information Technologies etc.

The magazine’s current Editor-in-Chief Dalibor Balšínek is a successor to Karel Hvížďala and Aleš Lederer. Týden's staff include a number of Czech journalist heavyweights, such as Martin Fendrych, Miroslav Korecký, Hana Čápová, Tomáš Čechtický, and Marek Šálek.

Most Týden's readers are people with higher education and city residents, over 90 per cent of them ABC1. As of August 2006, Týden's circulation was 70 000.