Rzeczpospolita, Poland
Based: Warsaw
Founded: 1944
Circulation: 250,000 copies sold per day (Poland has a population of 39 million)
Owner: Presspublica Sp. z.o.o.
Rzeczpospolita
is popular among managers, enterpreneurs, specialists, employees of
public administration and people at universities. Most readers are
between 25 and. Along with the British Guardian newspaper, it
has been voted one of the best-designed newspapesr in the world
(by the U.S.-based Society for News Design).
Rzeczpospolita
used to be printed in broadsheet format, switching to compact on
October 16, 2007. It maintains a more elitist and "deadpan" image than,
for example, its stronger liberal rival Gazeta Wyborcza.
Rzeczpospolita's political profile is moderately conservative and
arguably comparable to that of The Times in Britain, but it does not
favor any particular Polish party.