Szabad Föld

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
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Central European Press and Media Foundation
Founded1945 (1945)
LanguageHungarian
HeadquartersBudapest
Circulation37,859 (2022)
ISSN0133-0950
Websitewww.szabadfold.hu

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 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]

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]

See also

References
  1. "Szabad Föld". 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.
  5. "Publishers to merge". XpatLoop. 29 July 2004. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  6. Keller-Alánt Ákos (11 August 2021). "A megyei lapok Magyarországa: aktív és boldog nyugdíjasok, fejlődő falvak". Szabad Európa (in Hungarian). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  7. "Govt Backs Right-Wing Media Firm". Hungary Today. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  8. "Exhibitors" (PDF). Hortus Hungaricus. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  9. Balázs Kiss (2004). "Hungary". In Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail (eds.). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. London: SAGE Publishing. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-7619-4131-6.
  10. "Communicating Europe: Hungary Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. December 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  11. Janos Rainer (2009). Imre Nagy: A Biography. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-85771-347-6.
  12. "Newspapers" (PDF). Central European Rural Youth Centre Project. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  13. "Daily life in Hungary in the 1940s". Oral History Archive. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  14. Media Landscape of South East Europe 2002 (PDF). 2003. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. "Top Ten Magazines in Hungary by Circulation". Top Ten.com. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  16. Mihaly Galik. "Hungary" (PDF). Mirovni Institut. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2005. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  17. "Top 50 Magazines". IFABC. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  18. Lukács Csaba (15 August 2022). "Tovább zsugorodik a nyomtatott sajtó" (in Hungarian). Magyar Hang. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
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