''Fakt'' (
Polish for "fact") is a
Polish tabloid
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daily newspaper published in
Warsaw
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, Poland, by Ringier Axel Springer Polska (a Swiss-German joint-venture subsidiary of
Axel Springer SE
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and
Ringier
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), and is one of the best-selling papers in Poland.
History and profile
''Fakt'' was launched in October 2003 by the Polish outlet of the
German
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publisher
Axel Springer AG
Axel Springer SE () is a German digital and popular periodical publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as ''Bild'', ''Die Welt'', and '' Fakt'' and more than 15,000 employees. It generated tot ...
, and modeled on Springer's German tabloid ''
Bild
''Bild'' (or ''Bild-Zeitung'', ; ) is a German tabloid newspaper published by Axel Springer SE. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, its sister paper '' Bild am Sonntag'' ("''Bild on Sunday''") is published instead, which ...
'',
the biggest-selling newspaper in Europe. Like its German counterpart, ''Fakt'' is characterized by its down-market, often sensationalist journalism with a populist appeal. However, politically it is by and large centrist. The paper supported policies of the former prime minister
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (; born 20 December 1959) is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 31 October 2005 to 14 July 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party (''Prawo i Sprawiedliwość'', PiS).
...
, a regular commentator. Other op-ed writers include journalist
Tomasz Lis
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Life and career
Lis was born on 6 March 1966 in Zielona Góra to parents Stef ...
, former
TVN anchorman
Kamil Durczok
Kamil Sebastian Durczok (6 March 1968 – 16 November 2021) was a Polish journalist, Editor-in-Chief and presenter of TVN newscast ''Fakty TVN''.
Career
In 1991 Durczok started working in Radio Katowice. Earlier he had co-created Student's Ra ...
, and former ''
Rzeczpospolita'' columnist
Maciej Rybiński
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.
In the early 2000s, ''Fakt'' had a weekly supplement contrasting to its tabloid content, ''Europa'' which featured essays by scholars and intellectuals including
,
Francis Fukuyama
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Fukuyama is known for his book ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argue ...
,
Jürgen Habermas
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, and
Robert Kagan
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.
In 2003, the circulation of ''Fakt'' was 715,000 copies making it the best-selling newspaper in Poland.
Since its launch, ''Fakt'' replaced the middle-market ''
Gazeta Wyborcza
''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of " real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the ...
'' as Poland's biggest-selling newspaper, also putting pressure on the older national tabloid ''
Super Express''. In 2005, to compete directly with ''Fakt'', ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' publisher
Agora
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responded with a failed middle-market paper ''
Nowy Dzień''.
When ''Fakt'' was launched at a price of 1
złoty, ''Super Express'' publisher Media Express sued Axel Springer for dumping, however having lost the lawsuit, it leveled the price of ''Super Express'' to equal ''Fakt''.
Criticism
Like ''
Bild
''Bild'' (or ''Bild-Zeitung'', ; ) is a German tabloid newspaper published by Axel Springer SE. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, its sister paper '' Bild am Sonntag'' ("''Bild on Sunday''") is published instead, which ...
'' and other tabloids, ''Fakt'' has been subjected to criticism concerning its style of journalism from media watchdogs. The Association of Polish Journalists awarded ''Fakt'' twice with a "Hyena of the Year" award, for "a particular unscrupulousness and neglect of the principles of the journalistic work ethics." In 2004, ''Fakt'' published a photograph showing the nude dead body of a murder victim. In 2005, it published the photo of an innocent person with the caption "This sex offender is at large."
See also
*
List of newspapers in Poland
Below is a list of newspapers published in Poland. In Poland, the distinction between the broadsheet and tabloid newspapers is mostly format, as most newspapers converted to the latter in the early 1990s.
The daily circulation of national newspape ...
References
External links
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2003 establishments in Poland
Newspapers published in Warsaw
Daily newspapers published in Poland
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Axel Springer SE
Polish news websites