Szabad Föld

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Szabad Föld
Szabad Föld.svg
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Geoholding media group
PublisherSzabad Lap Publisher Kft
Founded1945; 76 years ago (1945)
LanguageHungarian
HeadquartersBudapest
Circulation82,261 (2013)
Websitewww.szabadfold.hu

Szabad Föld (meaning Free Land or Soil in English) is a weekly newspaper published in Budapest, Hungary. The paper has been in circulation since 1945.

History and profile[]

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 it.[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 is Szabad Lap Publisher Kft.[5]

The headquarters of Szabad Föld is in Budapest.[1][6] However, its target audience is non-urban people,[7] and it mostly covers local and agricultural issues.[8] In fact, the paper was called as peasants' newspaper or countryside weekly during its initial phase.[9][10] At that time the paper financed winter-evening lectures in the country.[11]

Lajos Feher served as the editor-in-chief of Szabad Föld. As of 2010 its editor-in-chief was László Horváth.[8]

Circulation[]

In 1976 Szabad Föld sold 350,000 copies.[1] Its circulation was 176,385 copies in 2002.[12] In 2003 the weekly had a circulation of 160,000 copies.[13][14] The paper sold 115,326 copies in 2009, making it the second most read weekly in the country.[8] The circulation of the paper was 82,261 copies in 2013.[15]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Szabad Föld". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979.
  2. ^ "Publications. Szabad Föld". Geomedia. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  3. ^ Robert Takács. "Education and the Inspiring of Hatred" (Book chapter). Politikatörténeti Alapítvány. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  4. ^ Péter Bajomi-Lázár (June 2003). Freedom of the Media in Hungary, 1990–2002 (PDF) (PhD thesis). Central European University. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Publishers to merge". XpatLoop. 29 July 2004. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Exhibitors" (PDF). Hortus Hungaricus. 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  7. ^ Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail, eds. (2004). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. SAGE Publications. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-7619-4131-6.
  8. ^ a b c "Communicating Europe: Hungary Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. December 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  9. ^ Janos Rainer (30 August 2009). Imre Nagy: A Biography. I.B.Tauris. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-85771-347-6.
  10. ^ "Newspapers" (PDF). Central European Rural Youth Centre Project. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  11. ^ "Daily life in Hungary in the 1940s". Oral History Archive. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  12. ^ Media Landscape of South East Europe 2002 (PDF). ACCESS-Sofia Foundation. Sofia. 2003.
  13. ^ "Top Ten Magazines in Hungary by Circulation". Top Ten.com. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  14. ^ Mihaly Galik. "Hungary" (PDF). Mirovni Institut. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  15. ^ "Top 50 Magazines". IFABC. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

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