Prague Post

The Prague Post

Cover of The Prague Post on 3 November 2010
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	The Prague Post s.r.o
Publisher	Monroe Luther
Editor	Raymond Johnston
Founded	1991
Ceased publication	in print: 2013;
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Website	www.praguepost.com

The Prague Post was an English language newspaper covering the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe which published its first weekly issue on October 1, 1991. It published a printed edition weekly until July, 2013 when it dropped the printed product to focus on its online platforms, including the website PraguePost.com, a Kindle edition and online subscriptions.[1]. In 2016 Prague Post filed for bankruptcy.

Compared to other Prague-based English newspapers, Prognosis 1991-1995 and Prague Pill 2001-2003 -- the Prague Post was the longest running English-language newspaper in the Czech Republic. Its target audience included English-speaking expatriates living in the Czech Republic or neighboring countries, Czech readers seeking news from an international perspective and tourists visiting the Czech Republic. With a print run of about 19,000 copies, The Prague Post reached approximately 40,000 readers a week with its print edition published every Wednesday. In 2013, The Prague Post ceased its print edition and moved to an online-only format. Its website at its peak had 40,000 unique users generating 150,000 page views per month.

The history of the newspaper began in Prague, two years after the Velvet Revolution, specifically in 1991.

The Prague Post was an English-language information source in the Czech Republic through its newspaper, and related products and services.

The Prague Post newspaper was published by Prague Post, spol. s r.o. (spol. s r.o. = Ltd.).

In July 1991, Lisa Frankenberg and Kent Hawryluk, two employees of Prognosis, an English-language monthly newspaper in Prague which began publication in March 1991, came to the realization that there was a ripe market in the then Czechoslovakia for a weekly broadsheet newspaper.

Together with Monroe Luther, an investor from Houston, Texas, they formed Lion’s Share Group, a privately held, Czech limited-liability company (spol s r.o.) that was created to be the information leader in the region. Kent Hawryluk served as Founding Publisher and Lisa Frankenberg as Founding General Manager. Other programs introduced at that time were the Business Network, Lion’s Share Group Publishing and the Prague Post Foundation (set up separately as a Czech-registered, non-profit foundation, and which later became The Prague Post Endowment Fund with the change in Czech nonprofit laws).