Cotidianul

Cotidianul was a Romania

Romania

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n newspaper, published Monday to Saturday in Berliner

Berliner (format)

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 format. Founded by Ion Raţiu

Ion Ratiu

Ion Raţiu was a Romanian politician and the presidential candidate of the National Peasants' Party in the 1990 elections, in which he ranked third with 4.29% of the vote.-Biography:...

, it published its first issue on May 10, 1991. It ceased publication in December 2009. The owners announced the closure was temporary due to insolvency, but no buyers have been found.

Currently, Cotidianul is owned by Academia Caţavencu

Academia Catavencu

Academia Caţavencu is a Romanian satirical magazine founded in 1991 and made famous by its investigative journalism. Academia Caţavencu also owns Radio Guerrilla , an FM radio station with national coverage ; Tabu, a women's magazine, Superbebe, a magazine for new parents, Aventuri la pescuit, a...

(50%+1 of the shares) and Regent House

Regent House

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 (50%), the latter of owned by the Raţiu family and Călin Husar.

Notable contributors

• Cătălin Avramescu
• Doru Buşcu
• Adrian Cioroianu
  Adrian Cioroianu
  Adrian Mihai Cioroianu is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with Romanian history...
  
  
• Mirela Corlăţan
• Răzvan Dumitrescu
• Eugen Istodor
• Ioan T. Morar
  Ioan T. Morar
  Ioan T. Morar is a Romanian journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, literary and art critic, and civil society activist. He is a founding member of the satirical magazine Academia Caţavencu and, since 2004, a senior editor for Cotidianul...
  
  
• Octavian Paler
  Octavian Paler
  Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.-Biography:Octavian Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov Country.He was educated at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest...
  
  
• Ovidiu Pecican
  Ovidiu Pecican
  Ovidiu Coriolan Pecican is a Romanian historian, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist...
  
  
• Jean-Lorin Sterian
• Cristian Teodorescu
• Vladimir Tismăneanu
  Vladimir Tismaneanu
  Vladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian and American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park...
  
  
• Robert Turcescu
  Robert Turcescu
  Robert Turcescu is a Romanian journalist.Born in Piteşti, he attended the Ion Brătianu High School there, followed by the Superior School of Journalism in Bucharest, which he finished in 1997...
  
  
• Traian Ungureanu
• Sever Voinescu
  Sever Voinescu
  Sever Voinescu is a Romanian journalist, political analyst, diplomat and right-wing politician. A Foreign Affairs Ministry figure during the mid-1990s, he was later a Consul General of Romania in Chicago, United States. Voinescu became known as a columnist for Dilema Veche weekly and Cotidianul...