''SME'' or ''Denník SME'' (in
English
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: ''WE ARE'' Daily) is one of the most widely read mainstream
broadsheet
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Description
Many broadsheets measure roughly ...
s in
Slovakia
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. Their website, SME.sk, is one of the most visited
Internet portal
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s in Slovakia.
History and profile
''SME'' was founded in mid-January 1993.
''SME'' appears 6 times a week. It is issued by Petit Press.
The sister newspapers of ''SME'' include ''
The Slovak Spectator'', ''
Új Szó'', ''
Korzár'' and various regional
My noviny newspapers
The former managing editors were
Martin M. Šimečka and founding editor-in-chief was
Karol Ježík Karol may refer to:
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* Karol, Gujarat, a village on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, west India
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*'' Karol: A Man Who Became Pope'', a 2005 miniseries
*' ...
. 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 copies. It was 53,000 copies in 2011. The paper had a circulation of 62,890 copies in September 2012. and 32,853 in January 2015
In 2014, the Namav, a subject subvenced by the
Penta Investments
Penta is a Central Europe investment group founded in 1994 in Slovakia by Czech Marek Dospiva and Slovaks Jaroslav Haščák, Juraj Herko, Martin Kúšik and Jozef Oravkin.
Today, the group actively develops companies and projects, primarily i ...
group, announced the purchase of Petit Press, the publisher of the newspaper. In reaction, a major part of the editorial board, including the editor-in-chief, announced their resignation. ''"We are leaving SME and we will try to create a new medium that no one will suspect that it serves someone other than the readers"'', stated Matúš Kostolný, the departing editor-in-chief. In the beginning of 2015, the departed board members started a new newspaper,
Denník N
Denník N is a Slovak daily newspaper and a news website which was founded by the former members of the editorial board of SME in 2014.
History
In 2014, the Namav, a subject subvenced by the Penta Investments group, announced the purchase o ...
.
Penta Investments group left Petit Press in 2021, six years after the hostile takeover.
References
External links
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1993 establishments in Slovakia
Publications established in 1993
Newspapers published in Slovakia
Slovak-language newspapers
Mass media in Bratislava