| Type: | Daily newspaper (Monday to Friday) |
| Owners: | Infor Biznes |
| Founder: | Ryszard Pieńkowski |
| Publisher: | Infor Biznes |
| Chiefeditor: | Krzysztof Jedlak |
| Language: | Polish |
| Headquarters: | Warsaw |
| Circulation: | 38,167 (2018) |
| Issn: | 2080-6744 |
| Oclc: | 762030561 |
| Website: | Dziennik Gazeta Prawna |
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (Polish: Daily Legal Newspaper; abbreviation: DGP) is a Polish legal and business daily newspaper, headquartered in Warsaw and published from Monday to Friday. The paper focuses on law, taxes and finances. The publisher of DGP is Infor Biznes, a Polish publishing company.
The paper was launched in September 2009 as a result of the merger between Dziennik Polska-Europa-Świat (issued by Ringier Axel Springer Polska) and Gazeta Prawna (Legal Newspaper in English, issued by Infor Biznes (pl) since October 1994).[1] [2] Of them, Dziennik was a daily while the latter was a special legal paper.[1] The publisher of Dziennik, Ringier Axel Springer, sold it to Infor Biznes, the publisher of Gazeta Prawna.[3] [4] Until 2018 Ringier Axel Springer Media AG owned a 49% shares of Infor Biznes, publisher of the daily.[5] In March 2018 Ryszard Pieńkowski, owner of Infor PL Group, bought back 49% of shares in Infor Biznes from Ringier Axel Springer.[6] The owner and president of the management board of Infor PL and Infor Biznes is Ryszard Pieńkowski.[7]
Michał Kobosko was the editor-in-chief of the paper from 2009 to 2010.[8] From June 2016 the editor-in-chief is Krzysztof Jedlak.[9]
The major focus of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna is economic and legal affairs.[10] [11] It employed three different colors for its three main sections: white for news, yellow for tax and legal affairs and salmon for business and finance news until 2010.[1] Later salmon-colored section was integrated into main section.[2]
Extended editorial offer of DGP features: Tax Mondays with the weekly magazine for subscribers of "Taxes and Accounting", Entrepreneurial and Legal Tuesdays with weekly magazines for subscribers of "Lawyer" and "Enterprise and Law", Self-governmental Wednesdays with the weekly magazine for subscribers of "Self-government and Administration" as well as HR Thursdays with the weekly magazine for subscribers of "Payroll and HR".[12]
The Friday edition of DGP is published as a magazine, the news contents are replaced with topics similar to those encountered in opinion-forming weekly magazines such as social issues, business, culture and technological innovations.[13] Since November 2015 the weekend edition is published as a whole on white pages, while the subscribers additionally receive the specialist weekly magazine entitled Tygodnik Gazeta Prawna which features news on four areas: accounting and taxes, payroll and HR, self-government and administration, enterprise and law.[14]
DGP has a centrist and center-right stance.[15] [16] The paper is also a liberal conservative publication.[17]
The circulation of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna was 118,206 copies in 2009.[15] It was 99,582 copies in 2010 and 91,554 in 2011.[18] In a readership study covered the period of April through September 2011 it was found that the paper had the score of 2.24%, making it the seventh most read paper in Poland.[2] The estimated circulation for the daily in 2012 was 82,055 copies.[17] [3] In February 2013 the paper sold 74,150 copies.[15] Its print and e-edition circulation was 53,058 copies in August 2014.[19]