Mladá fronta Dnes

Mladá fronta Dnes (lit. 'Young Front Today'), also known as MF Dnes or simply Dnes, is a daily newspaper based in the Czech Republic.^[1] As of 2016, it is the second-largest Czech newspaper,^[2] after the tabloid Blesk.

Mladá fronta Dnes

The front page of Mladá fronta Dnes on 16 May 2012
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Mafra
Editor	Jaroslav Plesl
Founded	1945; 80 years ago (1945)
Political alignment	Conservatism[1] Economic liberalism
Language	Czech
Headquarters	Prague
Website	mfdnes.cz

History and profile

Headquarters of Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové Noviny in Prague.

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,^[3] the publisher of the Rheinische Post that bought it from French press group Socpresse in 1994.

The newspaper is published in Berliner format.^[4] It consists of four sections, one of which contains regional content. Its orientation can be described as right-wing conservative.^[1]

Circulation of Mladá fronta Dnes

• 2001: 338,000 copies^[4]
• 2002: 312,000 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country)^[5]
• 2003: 316,206 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country)^[6]
• 2006: 300,000 copies (the second-best-selling newspaper in the country)^[7]
• 2008: 291,711 copies^[8]
• 2009: 256,118 copies^[8]
• 2010: 239,646 copies^[8]
• 2011: 222,377 copies^[8]
• 2013: The newspaper had the highest circulation in the country.^[9]

See also

• List of newspapers in the Czech Republic
• Concentration of media ownership in the Czech Republic