Czech Newspapers

The Czech press is compact, highly digital, and shaped by a few large publishing houses. The list below covers the national dailies, the news portals that dominate online reading, the public broadcaster and the regional network.

Mladá fronta DNES, Právo and Lidové noviny are the established dailies, with Blesk leading the tabloid market and Hospodářské noviny covering business. Deník N is the newer subscriber-funded title, founded by journalists who left the larger groups.

Online, readers mostly arrive through portals rather than mastheads: Novinky, Seznam Zprávy, Aktuálně.cz and Centrum carry very large audiences, with Echo24 and Forum24 adding commentary from opposing directions.

ČT24 and iRozhlas are the public television and radio newsrooms, joined by CNN Prima News on the commercial side. The Deník network supplies local coverage through dozens of district editions, from Brněnský deník to Plzeňský deník.

Weeklies Respekt and Reflex carry the long-form and investigative work. Sport runs through iSport, Sport.cz and Livesport, and technology through Zive.cz, Lupa.cz and Smartmania. All titles publish in Czech.