''Przegląd Sportowy'' (, ''Sports Review'') is the oldest and now the only
Polish sports daily, founded in 1921 in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
. In 1926 it initiated an annual, popular
plebiscite
A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a direct vote by the electorate (rather than their representatives) on a proposal, law, or political issue. A referendum may be either binding (resulting in the adoption of a new policy) or adv ...
for the
Polish Sportspersonality of the Year. Its current editor-in-chief is Paweł Wołosik.
History
The newspaper was founded in 1921 on the initiative of Kraków sports journalists Ignacy Rosenstock, J. Billig, Aleksander Dembiński, Józef Szkolnikowski, Leon Gleissner and Tadeusz Synowiec. Rosenstock was appointed the newspaper's first editor-in-chief. On 23 July 1921, it officially became affiliated with the
Polish Football Association. The newspaper's headquarters moved to
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
in 1925.
The circulation of the newspaper is of around 50,000 copies per day (sale is about 25,000). It also has a digital presence: the website and various social accounts offer online sport news in Polish. In March 2014, they announced a cooperation with the startup Betegy, providing data-based football predictions in their printed newspaper as well as online.
The shareholder of the newspaper is Ringier Axel Springer Media AG,
[" Ringier"," ''Ringier Axel Springer Media AG on Wikipedia''] a joint venture between the German publishing company
Axel Springer and
Ringier, the largest international operating media company in Switzerland.
Notable journalists of ''Przegląd Sportowy'' have included
Zygmunt Weiss,
Krzysztof Stanowski,
,
Stanisław Rothert, Tomasz Wołek and Roman Kołtoń.
List of editors-in-chief
*Ignacy Rosenstock (1921)
*
Ferdynand Goetel (1922–1926)
*
Kazimierz Wierzyński (1926–1931)
*Marian Strzelecki (1931–1939)
*Tadeusz Maliszewski (1945–1950)
*Edward Trojanowski (1950–1951)
*Edward Strzelecki (1951–1969)
*Andrzej Jucewicz (1970–1976)
*Łukasz Jedlewski (1976–1990)
*Maciej Polkowski (1990–1994),
*Piotr Górski (1994–2003)
*Roman Kołtoń (2004–2007)
*Jacek Adamczyk (2007–2008)
*Tomasz Kontek (2008)
*Marcin Kalita (2008–2013)
*Michał Pol (2013–2017)
*Przemysław Rudzki (2017–2019)
*Paweł Wołosik (2019–)
See also
*
List of newspapers in Poland
References
External links
Official website
1921 establishments in Poland
Mass media in Kraków
Newspapers published in Warsaw
Daily newspapers published in Poland
Newspapers established in 1921
Sports mass media in Poland
Sports newspapers
Polish-language newspapers
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