Szabad Föld (Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈsɒbɒdˈføld], 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]
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]
Circulation
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]
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^Balázs Kiss (2004). "Hungary". In Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail (eds.). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. London: SAGE Publishing. p. 105. ISBN978-0-7619-4131-6.
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