Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Central European Press and Media Foundation |
Founded | 1945 |
Language | Hungarian |
Headquarters | Budapest |
Country | Hungary |
Circulation | 37,859 (2022) |
ISSN | 0133-0950 |
Website |
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Szabad Föld ( Hungarian: Free Land or Soil) is a weekly newspaper published in Budapest, Hungary. The paper has been in circulation since 1945.
Szabad Föld was established in 1945. [1] The paper is published on a weekly basis and appears on Fridays. [2] It was the organ of the People’s Patriotic Front [1] and of the working peasantry during the communist rule in Hungary. [3]
In the late 1990s the Attila József Foundation was the co-owner of Szabad Föld. [4] The Geoholding media group became the owner of the weekly in July 2004 when it purchased paper's owner, Book Publisher Rt. [5] Its publisher was Szabad Lap Publisher Kft. [5]
Szabad Föld became part of the Central European Press and Media Foundation in 2018 which is close to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. [6] [7] The foundation acquired the paper from László Puch. [7]
The headquarters of Szabad Föld is in Budapest. [1] [8] However, its target audience is non-urban people, [9] and it mostly covers local and agricultural issues. [10] In fact, the paper was called as peasants' newspaper or countryside weekly during its initial phase. [11] [12] At that time the paper financed winter-evening lectures in the country. [13]
Lajos Feher served as the editor-in-chief of Szabad Föld. As of 2010 its editor-in-chief was László Horváth. [10]
In 1976 Szabad Föld sold 350,000 copies. [1] Its circulation was 176,385 copies in 2002. [14] In 2003 the weekly had a circulation of 160,000 copies. [15] [16] The paper sold 115,326 copies in 2009, making it the second most read weekly in the country. [10] The circulation of the paper was 82,261 copies in 2013. [17] It sold 60,000 copies in 2018. [7] Its circulation decreased to 37,859 in 2022. [18]