The collection consists of 35 miniDV cassettes, containing video interviews with the founding journalists and staff of the legendary Magyar Narancs. The first ten years of the weekly Magyar Narancs is in the focus of attention. The intrviews shed light on the history of the paper, its relationship with the Fidesz Party, its foundation, founders, staff, editor-in-chief changes, structural changes, ownership, personnel changes, editorial crises and conflicts.
The cultural-political magazine called Magyar Narancs (Hungarian Orange) was founded in 1989, the year of the regime change, by a few young intellectuals belonging to the alternative-radical Fidesz party of the time. The first generation of the magazines's journalists created a new tradition in the history of the press, a tradition of unvarnished writing, passionate analysis, irony, killer humour and free thinking. The two-weekly became a weekly in September 1992, and the final split between magyar Narancs and Fidesz dates from that time.
In the autumn of 1998, the government liquidated some of Postabank's press interests, and the future of Magyar Narancs was questionable. After Postabank's subsidies were withdrawn, the newspaper changed publishers, publishing under the paper's nickname, MaNcs until the spring of 1999. The first issue of MaNcs was published on 22 October 1998; their old new name, Magyar Narancs was reacquired in April 1999.
The collection consists of 35 miniDV cassettes, containing video interviews with the founding journalists and staff of the legendary Magyar Narancs. The first ten years of the weekly Magyar Narancs is in the focus of attention. The intrviews shed light on the history of the paper, its relationship with the Fidesz Party, its foundation, founders, staff, editor-in-chief changes, structural changes, ownership, personnel changes, editorial crises and conflicts.
The cultural-political magazine called Magyar Narancs (Hungarian Orange) was founded in 1989, the year of the regime change, by a few young intellectuals belonging to the alternative-radical Fidesz party of the time. The first generation of the magazines's journalists created a new tradition in the history of the press, a tradition of unvarnished writing, passionate analysis, irony, killer humour and free thinking. The two-weekly became a weekly in September 1992, and the final split between magyar Narancs and Fidesz dates from that time.
In the autumn of 1998, the government liquidated some of Postabank's press interests, and the future of Magyar Narancs was questionable. After Postabank's subsidies were withdrawn, the newspaper changed publishers, publishing under the paper's nickname, MaNcs until the spring of 1999. The first issue of MaNcs was published on 22 October 1998; their old new name, Magyar Narancs was reacquired in April 1999.