Diena
Sign in to saveDiena (The Day) is a Latvian language national daily newspaper in Latvia, published since 23 November 1990. It is one of Latvia's largest daily periodicals and used to be considered as a paper of record.
Key facts
- Newspaper.name
- Diena
- Newspaper.logo
- Logo of Diena newspaper (Latvia).png
- Newspaper.type
- Daily newspaper
- Newspaper.format
- Compact
- Newspaper.founded
- 23 November 1990
- Newspaper.owner
- Edgars Kots
- Newspaper.publisher
- Dienas mediji, Ltd
- Newspaper.chief_editor
- Gatis Madžiņš
- Newspaper.language
- Latvian
- Newspaper.circulation
- 17,500 (2024)
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Riga, Latvia
- Newspaper.website
- www.diena.lv
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- newspaper
- Country
- Latvia
- Headquarters
- Riga
- Country of origin
- Latvia
- Official website
- www.diena.lv
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Diena (The Day) is a Latvian language national daily newspaper in Latvia, published since 23 November 1990. It is one of Latvia's largest daily periodicals and used to be considered as a paper of record.
== History == The newspaper was initially founded as the official paper of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia. Since privatisation in 1993, Diena was owned by Swedish media group Bonnier. Diena had 18,277 subscribers in December 2009, down from 26,866 in February 2009, and 41,471 in April 2000. It shifted from berliner to compact format in 2007. The newspaper's Russian language edition was discontinued in 2000.
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