Napi Gazdaság

Napi Gazdaság
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Századvég Gazdaságkutató
Editor-in-chief György Barcza
Managing editors Péter Keresztesi
Language Hungarian
Headquarters Budapest

Napi Gazdaság (meaning Daily Business in English)[1] is a daily newspaper published in Hungary and based in Budapest. The daily focuses on financial and business news.

History and profile

Napi Gazdaság is based in Budapest.[2][3] In the late 1990s the owner of the daily bankrupted and a group of young investors bought it.[4] During this period the paper was independent and covered investigative reports.[4] The Central European Media and Publishing Co. (CEMP) acquired 50% of the daily in 2007.[5] It was owned by CEMP until August 2013 when it was sold to economic think tank and research center Century Economic Research Inc. (Századvég Gazdaságkutató in Hungarian).[6][7] The think tank is linked to Fidesz, a conservative political party.[7] The website of the daily, Napi.hu, remained in possession of CEMP.[8] The editor-in-chief of the daily is György Barcza and its managing director is Péter Keresztesi.[6]

Napi Gazdaság provides mostly financial news and is one of two business newspapers in the country.[9][3] The other business newspaper in the country is Világgazdaság.[3]

The daily occasionally publishes supplements one of which was about Polish economy and in Polish.[10]

Circulation

The 1998 circulation of Napi Gazdaság was 14,000 copies.[11] It was 15,000 copies in 1999.[4] The audited readership per day was 33,000 in 2012.[12]

Controversy

In November 2013, English language news website specializing in current events taking place in Hungary, The Budapest Beacon, reported that both Napi Gazdaság's daily edition and its website were fined by the National Bank of Hungary for illegally manipulating the market.[8][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Napi.hu". Publicitas. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Hungary Newspapers Hotnewspapers Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Communicating Europe: Hungary Manual". European Stability Initiative. December 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Rita M. Csapo-Sweet; Ildiko Kaposi (Spring 1999). "Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary". International Communications Bulletin 34 (1-2). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  5. ↑ CEMP presentation CEMP. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Krisztián Kummer (9 September 2013). "Napi Gazdaság: The think tank newspaper". Budapest Business Journal. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Fidesz-linked firm buys national economic daily". Hungarian Media Monitor. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Richard Field (25 November 2013). "Hungarian Central Bank fines newspaper for "influencing the market in a prohibited manner"". The Budapest Beacon. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "Hungary". Reuters Institute. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  10. ↑ "Polish supplement". Kislow. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  11. ↑ Marina Popescu; Gábor Tóka (April 2000). "Campaign Effects in the 1994 and 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Hungary". European Consortium for Political Research. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "Media offer 2013". Napi. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  13. ↑ "National Bank of Hungary Fined Napi Gazdaság and Napi.hu for Illegal Market Manipulation". XpatLoop. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.