Knack (magazine)

Knack
Categories News magazine
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 104,542 (2013)
Publisher Roularta Printing
Year founded 1971 (1971)
Company Roularta Media Group
Country Belgium
Based in Brussels
Language Dutch
Website Knack

Knack is a Belgian (Flemish) weekly news magazine covering local news, politics, sports, business, jobs, and community events.

History and profile

Knack was founded in 1971 as the first Flemish news magazine in the country.[1][2] The magazine was modelled on Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel and L’Express.[3] Knack has a left-liberal stance.[1]

The owner of the magazine is Roularta Media Group.[3] It is published weekly on Wednesdays.[1] The headquarters of the magazine is in Brussels.[1][4] It is Flemish equivalent of the French language news magazine Le Vif/L’Express which is also owned by Roularta Media Group.[5] Both magazines are published by Roularta Printing, a subsidiary of the Roularta Media Group.[6]

Knack has several supplements, Knack Weekend, Focus Knack[7] and Mondiaal Nieuws, an alternative monthly news magazine.[8] In 2010 Knack began to offer T'chin, a health supplement, together with its sister magazine Le Vif/L’Express.[9]

Circulation

Knack had a circulation of 123,924 copies in 1998 and 126,303 copies in 1999.[10] In 2001 the circulation of the magazine was 144,000 copies.[11]

During the period of 2006-2007 Knack had a circulation of 142,000 copies.[12] The circulation of the magazine was 141,678 copies in 2008[4] and 141,361 copies during the first quarter of 2009.[13] The magazine had a circulation of 112,928 copies in 2010 and 110,423 copies in 2011.[14] Its circulation was 103,298 copies in 2012.[14] The 2013 circulation of the weekly was 104.542 copies.[15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Knack". Euro Topics. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "European News Resources". NYU Libraries. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Knack". Roularta Media Group. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Communicating Europe Manual: Belgium" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. July 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Le Vif/L’Express". VoxEurop. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Annual Report 2010" (PDF). Roularta Media Group. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "News". Affinity-Primemedia. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "MO* Mondiaal Magazine verliest mogelijk overheidssubsidies". MediaSpecs (in Dutch). 16 October 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "T'chin a new health supplement to Le Vif and Knack magazines". Publicitas. 15 February 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF). Roularta Media Group. 1999. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)" (Report). Magazine Organization. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  12. ↑ Anne Austin et. al. (2008). "Western Europe Market & Media Fact" (PDF). Zenith Optimedia. Retrieved 8 April 2015. line feed character in |work= at position 7 (help)
  13. ↑ Jonas Lefevere; Regis Dandoy (2011). "Candidate Choice in Political Advertising: What Determines Who Gets Attention?" (PDF). World Political Science Review 7 (1). Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  14. 1 2 "Top 50 Magazines". IFABC. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Belgium: Magazine market" (PDF). Il Sole 24 Ore. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

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