Lidové noviny

Lidové noviny (online as Lidovky.cz) is one of the oldest Czech news titles, founded in 1893 and based in Prague. It maintains a center-right, conservative editorial line; while its print edition ended in 2024, the website remains an active daily news source.

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Lidové noviny at a glance

Country: Czech Republic
Region: Central and Eastern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Right-leaning
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How Crosswire groups Lidové noviny

Crosswire groups Lidové noviny as Right-leaning for comparisons within the Czech Republic's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the Czech Republic, iDNES and Novinky are listed as Centrist — so you can open Lidové noviny beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Lidové noviny sits in the Czech Republic's press

Lidové noviny is one of 6 outlets tracked in the Czech Republic and the only daily newspaper tracked there. By outlets tracked, the Czech Republic ranks 20th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Lidové noviny outside the Czech Republic, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are Kyiv Post (Ukraine), SB. Belarus Segodnya (Belarus), Ziarul de Gardă (Moldova) and The Guardian (United Kingdom). Opening one of them beside Lidové noviny is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.