- Maariv (newspaper)
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Maariv 
Type Daily newspaper Format Tabloid Owner Nochi Dankner (via IDB Group)[1] Editor Yoav Tzur and Yoav Golan Founded 1948 Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel Official website www.nrg.co.il 
Maariv House at the Maariv intersection in Tel Aviv
Maariv (Hebrew: מַעֲרִיב, lit. Evening) is a Hebrew language daily newspaper published in Israel. It is second in sales after Yedioth Ahronoth and third in readership after Yedioth Ahronoth and Israel HaYom. In a TGI survey comparing the last half of 2009 with the same period in 2008, Maariv saw its market share fall slightly from 13.8 to 13.6 percent.[2] In July 2010, a TGI survey of the media reported that Maariv's daily exposure rate fell from 14.1% to 13.1% and its weekend edition dropped from 18.2% to 16.1% in the last six months.[3]
Maariv's editor in chief is Yoav Tzur who succeeded Doron Galezer and Ruth Yuval who quit in protest of continued budget cutbacks.[4]
Apart from the daily newspaper and its supplements, the Maariv media group (Ma'ariv Holdings Ltd) has a chain of local newspapers with a national scale distribution, a magazines division, and a semi-independent website called NRG, which includes much of the print content. The company's shares are listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since 1990 (TASE: MARV).
For many years, the Nimrodi family held a controlling stake in Maariv and Yaakov Nimrodi served as its chairman. In March 2010, Zaki Rakib bought a 50% share from Israel Land Development Company and Ofer Nimrodi, bringing new energy and much needed cash infusion to the newspaper which has been losing millions of shekels a year since 2004. Rakib became the new chairman.[5] However, it was announced in March 2011 that Nochi Dankner was to take control of Ma'ariv through his Discount Investment. On March 25 Discount transferred NIS20 million to the struggling firm. [6]
Contents
Supplements
- Weekdays:
- "The Magazine" (Op-Ed, political commentary and opinions, health, crossword, culture, entertainment, television and radio listings)
- Financial section ("Asakim", Business)
- Sport
- Tuesday
- Style-Home Magazine
- Wednesday
- Style-Fashion Magazine
- Friday –
- Musaf Shabat (in-depth political analysis and commentary, book reviews, satirical section)
- Sofshavua (weekend magazine)
- Promo (Culture and entertainment, TV and radio listings)
- Asakim (financial magazine)
- A local affiliated weekly newspaper, depending on the region.
Notable journalists
Present
- Ben Kaspit – political and diplomatic analyst
- Ofer Shelach – political, military and diplomatic analyst, sport commentator
- Ben-Dror Yemini – publicist (politics)
- Ruvik Rosenthal – Hebrew language columnist
- Arel Segal – columnist
- Yehonatan Geffen – columnist
- Mordechai Haimovich – magazine writer
- Meir Shnitzer – TV and film critic
- Menachem Ben – poet, literature critic, publicist
- Avi Ratzon – sport commentator
Past
- Azriel Carlebach – founding chief editor. deceased
- Ephraim Kishon – humor and satire. deceased
- Tommy Lapid – editor, turned to politics and returned to the paper as a publicist. deceased
- Dan Ben Amotz – humor, culture, gossip. deceased
- Kariel Gardosh ("Dosh") – cartoonist, creator of the "Srulik" ("little Israel") character. deceased
- Jacob Farkas ("Ze'ev") – cartoonist. deceased
- Kobi Arieli – satirist
- Jacky Hugi – Arab and Middle East correspondent
- Ron Maiberg – columnist
- Dudu Geva – humor and satire. deceased
- Amnon Dankner- chief editor
- Dan Margalit – political columnist
- Gal Ochovsky[7]
Online version
nrg Maariv is the online edition of the newspaper. While a large part of content on the website comes from the print edition, most of the material is written exclusively for the web edition, including 24/7 news updates and channels such as Judaism, and new age.
References
- ^ "Israeli company buys leading newspaper". Forbes. Associated Press (Jerusalem). June 3, 2011. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/06/03/general-ml-israel-newspaper_8498118.html. Retrieved July 2, 2011. "The Maariv daily reports on its front page Friday that IDB Holding Corp. now owns 61 percent of the paper's stock."
- ^ Li-Or Averbuch (January 27, 10). "TGI survey shows "Globes" only paper to grow". Globes. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000534102&fid=942. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ Li-Or Averbuch (July 28, 10). "אדלסון שוטף את המדינה בחינם: "ישראל היום" השתווה ל"ידיעות אחרונות"". Globes. http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000577726&Fromelement=TalkofDay. Retrieved July 28, 2010.(Hebrew)
- ^ "יואב צור מונה לעורך עיתון מעריב". nrg Maariv. http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/900/528.html. Retrieved June 15, 2009.(Hebrew)
- ^ "Ofer Nimrodi sells half of Ma'ariv". Globes. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000542962&fid=942. Retrieved March 1, 2009.
- ^ "Dankner to take control of Ma'ariv". Haaretz. http://english.themarker.com/dankner-gives-maariv-cash-will-appoint-observer-to-paper-s-board-1.352002. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
- ^ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/905795.html
External links
- NRG (Hebrew)
- Maariv Holdings Ltd. – BusinessWeek
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