Type Weekly newspaper Language Hungarian | Owner(s) Geoholding media group Headquarters Budapest | |
Publisher Szabad Lap Publisher Kft Founded 1945; 72 years ago (1945) | ||
Szabad Föld (meaning Free Land or Soil in English) is a weekly newspaper published in Budapest, Hungary.
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History and profile
Szabad Föld was established in 1945. The paper is published on a weekly basis and appears on Fridays. It was the organ of the People’s Patriotic Front and of the working peasantry during the communist rule in Hungary.
In the late 1990s the Attila József Foundation was the co-owner of it. The Geoholding media group became the owner of the weekly in July 2004 when it purchased paper's owner, Book Publisher Rt. Its publisher is Szabad Lap Publisher Kft.
The headquarters of Szabad Föld is in Budapest. However, its target audience is non-urban people and it mostly covers local and agricultural issues. In fact, the paper was called as peasants' newspaper or countryside weekly during its initial phase. At that time the paper financed winter-evening lectures in the country.
Lajos Feher served as the editor-in-chief of Szabad Föld. As of 2010 its editor-in-chief was László Horváth.
Circulation
The 1976 circulation of Szabad Föld was 350,000 copies. Its circulation was 176,385 copies in 2002. In 2003 the weekly had a circulation of 160,000 copies. It was 115,326 copies in 2009, making it the second most read weekly in the country. The circulation of the paper 82,261 copies in 2013.