Nowy Dzień

''Nowy Dzień'' (

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for "New Day") was a short-lived

middle-market daily

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, which appeared from 14 November 2005 until 23 February 2006. ''Nowy Dzień'' was launched by the publishing company

Agora SA Agora Spółka Akcyjna (Agora SA) is a Polish media company. Agora and ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (''The'' ''Electoral Gazette'') were created on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 1989. ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' became the first independent newspape ...

, after its flagship publication

Gazeta Wyborcza ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of "real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the g ...

had come under increasing pressure from

Fakt ''Fakt'' (Polish for "fact") is a Polish tabloid daily newspaper published in Warsaw, Poland, by Ringier Axel Springer Polska (a Swiss-German joint-venture subsidiary of Axel Springer SE and Ringier), and is one of the best-selling papers in Pola ...

, a low-cost tabloid introduced by Axel Springer Polska in 2003. ''Nowy Dzień'' was conceived as a "quality tabloid" with entertaining, but at the same time more serious journalism than that of typical tabloids such as ''Fakt's'' German "parent" product,

Bild-Zeitung ''Bild'' (or ''Bild-Zeitung'', ; ) is a German tabloid newspaper published by Axel Springer SE. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, its sister paper ''Bild am Sonntag'' ("''Bild on Sunday''") is published instead, which ...

. The paper's editorial staff consisted mainly of detached ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' employees. The publisher envisaged an average circulation of 250,000 copies, but it remained continuously below that and had a downward trend. By early 2006, circulation had dropped from an initial level of 212,000 to about 130,000 copies. As a result, Agora S.A. decided to discontinue the paper. Since then, ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' has had to continue its increasingly difficult effort to appeal to both upmarket and middle-market readerships. 2005 establishments in Poland 2006 disestablishments in Poland Defunct newspapers published in Poland Newspapers published in Warsaw Daily newspapers published in Poland Polish-language newspapers Publications established in 2005 Publications disestablished in 2006 {{Poland-newspaper-stub