Maariv (newspaper)

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Maariv

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Nochi Dankner (via IDB Group)
Editor	Yoav Tzur and Yoav Golan
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel
Official website	www.nrg.co.il

Maariv House at the Maariv intersection in Tel Aviv

Maariv (Hebrew: מַעֲרִיב‎, lit. Evening) is a Hebrew language daily newspaper published in Israel. It is second in sales after Yedioth Ahronoth and third in readership after Yedioth Ahronoth and Israel HaYom. In a TGI survey comparing the last half of 2009 with the same period in 2008, Maariv saw its market share fall slightly from 13.8 to 13.6 percent. In July 2010, a TGI survey of the media reported that Maariv's daily exposure rate fell from 14.1% to 13.1% and its weekend edition dropped from 18.2% to 16.1% in the last six months.

Maariv's editor in chief is Yoav Tzur who succeeded Doron Galezer and Ruth Yuval who quit in protest of continued budget cutbacks.

Apart from the daily newspaper and its supplements, the Maariv media group (Ma'ariv Holdings Ltd) has a chain of local newspapers with a national scale distribution, a magazines division, and a semi-independent website called NRG, which includes much of the print content. The company's shares are listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since 1990 (TASE: MARV).

For many years, the Nimrodi family held a controlling stake in Maariv and Yaakov Nimrodi served as its chairman. In March 2010, Zaki Rakib bought a 50% share from Israel Land Development Company and Ofer Nimrodi, bringing new energy and much needed cash infusion to the newspaper which has been losing millions of shekels a year since 2004. Rakib became the new chairman. However, it was announced in March 2011 that Nochi Dankner was to take control of Ma'ariv through his Discount Investment. On March 25 Discount transferred NIS20 million to the struggling firm.

Supplements

• Weekdays:
  • "The Magazine" (Op-Ed, political commentary and opinions, health, crossword, culture, entertainment, television and radio listings)
  • Financial section ("Asakim", Business)
  • Sport
• Tuesday
  • Style-Home Magazine
• Wednesday
  • Style-Fashion Magazine

• Friday –
  • Musaf Shabat (in-depth political analysis and commentary, book reviews, satirical section)
  • Sofshavua (weekend magazine)
  • Promo (Culture and entertainment, TV and radio listings)
  • Asakim (financial magazine)
  • A local affiliated weekly newspaper, depending on the region.

Notable journalists

Present

• Arel Segal – columnist
• Avi Ratzon – sport commentator
• Ben-Dror Yemini – publicist (politics)
• Ben Kaspit – political and diplomatic analyst
• Kalman Libeskind - journalist and columnist
• Meir Shnitzer – TV and film critic
• Menachem Ben – poet, literature critic, publicist
• Mordechai Haimovich – magazine writer
• Ofer Shelach – political, military and diplomatic analyst, sport commentator
• Ruvik Rosenthal – Hebrew language columnist
• Yehonatan Geffen – columnist

Past

Dahn Ben-Amotz

• Azriel Carlebach – founding chief editor. deceased
• Ephraim Kishon – humor and satire. deceased
• Tommy Lapid – editor, turned to politics and returned to the paper as a publicist. deceased
• Dan Ben Amotz – humor, culture, gossip. deceased
• Kariel Gardosh ("Dosh") – cartoonist, creator of the "Srulik" ("little Israel") character. deceased
• Jacob Farkas ("Ze'ev") – cartoonist. deceased
• Kobi Arieli – satirist
• Jacky Hugi – Arab and Middle East correspondent
• Ron Maiberg – columnist
• Dudu Geva – humor and satire. deceased
• Amnon Dankner- chief editor
• Dan Margalit – political columnist
• Gal Ochovsky

Online version

nrg Maariv is the online edition of the newspaper. While a large part of content on the website comes from the print edition, most of the material is written exclusively for the web edition, including 24/7 news updates and channels such as Judaism, and new age.

External links

• NRG (Hebrew)
• Maariv Holdings Ltd. – BusinessWeek