Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | The Prague Post s.r.o |
Publisher | Monroe Luther |
Editor | Raymond Johnston |
Founded | 1991 |
Ceased publication | in print: 2013; |
Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
Website | praguepost |
The Prague Post was an English language newspaper covering the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe which published its first weekly issue on October 1, 1991. It published a printed edition weekly until July 2013, when it dropped the printed product but continued to produce online material. (The current website located at PraguePost.com has no affiliation with the original newspaper.) [1] In 2016 the Prague Post filed for bankruptcy.[2]
The Prague Post’s archives are available at https://archive.org/.
Compared to other Prague-based English newspapers, Prognosis 1991-1995[3] and Prague Pill 2001-2003 [4] —the Prague Post was the longest running English-language newspaper in the Czech Republic.[5] Its target audience included English-speaking expatriates living in the Czech Republic or neighboring countries, Czech readers seeking news from an international perspective and tourists visiting the Czech Republic. With a print run of about 19,000 copies, The Prague Post reached approximately 40,000 readers a week with its print edition published every Wednesday.[citation needed] In 2013, The Prague Post ceased its print edition and moved to an online-only format.[1] Its website at its peak had 40,000 unique users generating 150,000 page views per month.[6]
The history of the newspaper began in Prague, two years after the Velvet Revolution, specifically in 1991.[7]