Szabad Föld Explained

Type:Weekly newspaper
Owners:Central European Press and Media Foundation
Language:Hungarian
Headquarters:Budapest
Publishing Country:Hungary
Circulation:37,859 (2022)
Issn:0133-0950

Szabad Föld (Hungarian: Free Land or Soil) 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 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. 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. In fact, the paper was called as peasants' newspaper or countryside weekly during its initial phase.[10] [11] At that time the paper financed winter-evening lectures in the country.[12]

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

Circulation

In 1976 Szabad Föld sold 350,000 copies.[1] Its circulation was 176,385 copies in 2002.[13] In 2003 the weekly had a circulation of 160,000 copies.[14] [15] The paper sold 115,326 copies in 2009, making it the second most read weekly in the country.[16] 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]

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Szabad Föld. 1979. Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
  2. Web site: Publications. Szabad Föld. Geomedia. 22 March 2015.
  3. Web site: Robert Takács. Education and the Inspiring of Hatred. Politikatörténeti Alapítvány. 19 April 2015. Book chapter.
  4. Péter Bajomi-Lázár. PhD. Freedom of the Media in Hungary, 1990–2002. Central European University. June 2003.
  5. News: Publishers to merge. 29 July 2004. 26 November 2014. XpatLoop.
  6. News: Keller-Alánt Ákos. A megyei lapok Magyarországa: aktív és boldog nyugdíjasok, fejlődő falvak. Szabad Európa. 11 August 2021. hu. 10 July 2023.
  7. News: Govt Backs Right-Wing Media Firm. Hungary Today. 7 December 2018. 10 July 2023.
  8. Web site: Exhibitors. 2008. dead. 3 March 2016. Hortus Hungaricus. 26 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225751/http://www.hortushungaricus.hu/archive/images/hortus-hungaricus/pdf/katalogus2008.pdf.
  9. Book: Mary Kelly. Gianpietro Mazzoleni. Denis McQuail. The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. https://books.google.com/books?id=HYCVxSFNNpkC&pg=PA105. 2004. SAGE Publishing. 978-0-7619-4131-6. 105. London. Hungary. Balázs Kiss.
  10. Book: Janos Rainer. Imre Nagy: A Biography. 234. London. 2009. I.B. Tauris. 978-0-85771-347-6.
  11. Web site: Newspapers. Central European Rural Youth Centre Project. 26 November 2014.
  12. Web site: Daily life in Hungary in the 1940s. Oral History Archive. 26 November 2014.
  13. Web site: Media Landscape of South East Europe 2002. 2003. ACCESS-Sofia Foundation. Sofia.
  14. Web site: Top Ten Magazines in Hungary by Circulation. Top Ten.com. 13 January 2015.
  15. Web site: Mihaly Galik. Hungary. dead. 7 March 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050307062811/http://www2.mirovni-institut.si/media_ownership/pdf/hungary.pdf. Mirovni Institut. 19 January 2015.
  16. Web site: Communicating Europe: Hungary Manual. December 2010. European Stability Initiative. 26 November 2014.
  17. Web site: Top 50 Magazines. IFABC. 22 March 2015. 30 April 2014. 10 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160410013106/http://ifabc.org/site/assets/media/Top-50-magazines-30042014.xlsx. dead.
  18. Web site: Tovább zsugorodik a nyomtatott sajtó. Magyar Hang. 15 August 2022. 29 August 2022. hu. Lukács Csaba.

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