Magyar HÃrlap
Magyar Hírlap is (Hungarian for Hungarian Journal ) a small conservative newspaper in Hungary, which is in the possession of the right-wing conservative businessman Gábor Széles. The newspaper is published six times a week with a circulation of 25,000 copies.
In 1990, the circulation 100,000 copies yet, so there was the newspaper in Hungary in fourth place. In that year, an investor group led by Robert Maxwell had climbed 40 percent stake in the newspaper.
History
Magyar Hírlap, during the communist era government newspaper, was considered in the 1990s as the voice of left-wing liberals, but went bankrupt in 2005. In order to save them from the total disappearance, took over the conservative multimillionaire Gábor Széles the newspaper. The newspaper sees itself as a much more critical of left-wing liberalism than the other conservative daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet. Magyar Hírlap owned by a conservative media group, which also owns a television channel Echo TV.
Since early 2009, the newspaper appears with a very colorful layout and tries to position itself as Hungarian counterpart of the French newspapers such as France Soir or the Austrian Kurier: Therefore, a mixture of topics from politics and Boulevard characterizes the leaf.
Editing
- Chief Editor: István Stefka ( former employee of the daily Magyar Nemzet )
- Deputy Chief Editors: Pál Dippold (former head of the cultural department weekly Demokrata ), Gergely Huth (former held monopolistic department manager at Magyar Nemzet ), László Zöldi Szentesi (former foreign affairs department head of the Magyar Nemzet )
- Editor in Chief: Sándor Faggyas (former head of the cultural department weekly Heti Válasz )
Political direction and authors
Magyar Hírlap represents an anti-globalist, nationalist position in both the exterior, as well as in domestic politics. A certain diversity characterizes the comments of the newspaper, as not only moderate conservatives and right-wing liberal, but also left-nationalist critics of globalization as well as right-wing intellectuals to speak. Her most important authors include the anti-globalization economist László Bogár, the national conservative literary historian Zoltán Bíró, the metaphysician Attila Végh, the young poet Orsolya Péntek, the new far-right essayist Zsolt Bayer, the longtime publicist Balázs Várkonyi, the right-wing liberal political scientist Tamás Fricz, the liberal literature professor Csaba Gy. Kiss and the young liberal journalist Gellert Rajcsanyi.