Academia Caţavencu
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| Type | Weekly pamphlet newspaper |
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| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | România liberă |
| Editor | Doru Buşcu |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta 7-9, etaj 6, sector 3, Bucharest, Romania |
| ISSN | 1221-5597 |
| Website | academiacatavencu.info |
Academia Caţavencu (Romanian pronunciation: [akadeˈmi.a kat͡saˈveŋku], "The Caţavencu Academy") is a Romanian satirical magazine founded in 1991 and made famous by its investigative journalism. Academia Caţavencu also owns Radio Guerrilla [1], an FM radio station with national coverage [2]; Tabu, a women's magazine, Superbebe, a magazine for new parents, Aventuri la pescuit, a magazine for fishermen, 24-FUN, a free magazine for teenagers, and Cotidianul, a daily newspaper.
In a surprise move, on May 29, 2006, Academia Caţavencu press group announced it was being acquired [3] by Realitatea Media, owners of Realitatea TV, and controlled by controversial and elusive businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vântu. Vântu himself has often been a target of enquiries by Caţavencu journalists.
Nae Caţavencu is a character in Ion Luca Caragiale's 1883 comedy O scrisoare pierdută ("A Lost Letter"). An unscrupulous, demagogue politician, Caţavencu uses his newspaper Răcnetul Carpaţilor ("The Yell of the Carpathians") to blackmail politicians of the opposing party with a compromising love letter that he finds.
In its current form, Academia Caţavencu was founded in 1991, by a team of humourists, investigators, and literates headed by poet and former dissident Mircea Dinescu. Part of the team had previously edited two short-lived satirical papers, Caţavencu Incomod and Caţavencu Internaţional.
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