''Novinar'' ( bg, Новинар) is a
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...
n national
daily newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...
published in
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...
.
History and profile
''Novinar'' was established in 1993. The paper is part of the company with the same name and is published in
tabloid format
A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format.
Etymology
The word ''tabloid'' comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs We ...
.
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''Novinar'' is the only Bulgarian newspaper to reprint all 12 Danish Mohammad cartoons. Later in 2006 it published 12 cartoons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with the aim to make public the sufferings of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on trumped-up charges of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children in Benghazi with HIV.
In 2002 the circulation of ''Novinar'' was 29,000 copies.]
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External links
Official website
1993 establishments in Bulgaria
Bulgarian-language newspapers
Mass media in Sofia
Daily newspapers published in Bulgaria
Publications established in 1993