Lidové noviny (; "The People's News") is a daily newspaper published in Prague, the Czech Republic. It is the oldest Czech daily still in print, and a newspaper of record. conservative view. in Brno. Its high prestige was due to the number of famous Czech personalities that were contributing—writers, politicians and philosophers—and its attention toward foreign politics and culture. It was also the first Czech daily publishing political cartoons. Its publication was interrupted during World War II. The newspaper changed its name to Svobodné noviny ("The Free News") after the liberation before returning to the original name from 9 May 1948. It was closed down in 1952. In the autumn, two "zero editions" were published and in January 1988 the first edition was issued. The paper has its headquarters in Prague. (the publisher of the daily Rheinische Post in Germany) and its Czech subsidiary Mafra, that is also publisher of the second largest Czech newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes, the Czech edition of the freesheet Metro, the TV music channel Óčko, the radio stations Expresradio and Rádio Classic FM and the weekly music magazine Filter. In 2013, Mafra became a subsidiary of the Agrofert group, a company owned by the Czech Prime Minister (as of 2018), Andrej Babiš. The publisher of the daily is Lidové noviny AS. The paper was published in Berliner format.
Circulation
thumb|200px|Headquarters of Lidové Noviny and [[Mladá fronta Dnes in Prague]]
Lidové noviny had a circulation of 270,000 copies in June 1990. The circulation of the paper was 91,000 copies in 2002. In October 2003, the paper had a circulation of 77,558 copies. It was 72,000 copies for 2004 as a whole.
The 2007 circulation of the paper was 70,680 copies. In 2008, it had a circulation of 70,413 copies and reached up to 232,000 readers per day.