''Dnevnik'' ( bg, Дневник) is a business-oriented

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since 2001. Until early 2005, it was printed in broadsheet format, the last Bulgarian daily to use the large format. It adopted a compact format after research in 2005 found that more than 50% of the readers would prefer a smaller, thicker paper. Dnevnik's main editorial line is that the state should intervene less, and that business should have more freedom. Like the influential business and politics weekly ''

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'', it is published by Sofia-based

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publishing group

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was the owner of a 50 per cent stake in Economedia, but the Bulgarian owners of Economedia bought the shares back in November 2007. With a print-run of between 12,000 and 15,000, Dnevnik claimed 6,000 paid subscribers, distributed between 2,000 and 5,000 copies free-of-charge and sold about 5,000 copies at newsstands, the publisher's figures showed, adding that each copy had about five readers. In November 2005, Dnevnik launched ''Morski Dnevnik'', a weekly supplement for Bulgaria's Black Sea region with each Friday's paper. Dnevnik publishes daily web editions in Bulgarian and English and sends a daily summary of the day's top stories by email in either language to anyone who signs up for this free service. It also offers a Bulgarian-language

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newsfeed.Dnevnik RSS sign-up page, 7 December 2007
Accessed 12-09-2007.

Owners and representatives

As per Bulgaria
Trade register
owners of the Dnevnik - Economedia are not disclosed as the company is a joint stock company per registration but directors and representatives are Ivo Georgiev Prokopiev, Philip Michailov Harmandzhiev and Galia Valentinova Prokopieva. Also legal representatives who are not shareholders are: Kostadin Dimitrov Georgiev and Neli Velkova Hristova. Share capital of the company is 6,379,957 BGN (€3.2 mln, or $4.4 mln). The company's liabilities include a drawn €1 mln loan from the Greek Alpha bank.

References

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External links

Dnevnik's Bulgarian-language web edition

Economedia publishing group's homepage in English
Daily newspapers published in Bulgaria Bulgarian-language newspapers Bulgarian news websites Business newspapers Publications established in 2001 2001 establishments in Bulgaria Mass media in Sofia Business in Bulgaria