The leftist Trybuna daily, which rose from the ashes of the once almighty Trybuna Ludu, the mouthpiece of Poland’s communist party, has disappeared from news stands without any warning signals.
Its sudden demise took even the paper’s journalists by surprise. On Friday they were busy preparing the weekend edition, when the Ad Novum publisher ordered all work to end and announced that the daily will not be appear.
The chief editor Wieslaw Debski blames the economic crisis for paper’s financial straits and promises that Trybuna will be back on February 1, 2010, but most analysts agree that it is the end of the daily’s slow agony.
Trybuna first appeared in 1990. It was a successor of the powerful daily of the ruling communist party, which had been published in up to 1.5 million copies, but it never captured a meaningful share of the market in free and democratic Poland. (kk/jb)