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Gazeta Wyborcza (pronounce: [ga'zεta v
i'bɔrʧa] , gazeta vibborcha) is, as of
2005,
Poland's second largest distribution daily
newspaper (after the tabloid
Fakt). It covers a full range of political, international and general
news. As with almost all newspapers in Poland it is in
tabloid format.
Gazeta Wyborcza began on May 8,
1989, with the
masthead "Nie ma wolności bez Solidarności" ("There's no freedom without
Solidarity"). Its founding was one of the outcomes of the
Polish Round Table Agreement between the Communist government of the
People's Republic of Poland and the opposition gathered around the
Solidarity movement. The paper was to serve as the voice of Solidarity during the runup to semi-free elections to be held on
June 4,
1989. As such, it was the first official newspaper published outside of the Communist regime's control since its establishment in the late 1940s. According to the editors, the first edition was small (150,000) and relatively expensive due to limited supplies of paper from the state. A year and a half later the daily run reached 500,000. In September,
1990, during the acrimonious breakup of the
Solidarity camp following the collapse of the Communist regime,
Lech Wałęsa revoked the paper's right to use the Solidarity logo on its masthead. Since then it has been a fully independent newspaper, which generally supports the liberal point of view.
Gazeta Wyborcza is now a multi-section heavyweight daily newspaper.
Since its founding the paper's editor in chief has been
Adam Michnik.
The paper also publishes daily local editions for the following cities:
Warszawa (capital edition),
Białystok,
Bydgoszcz,
Częstochowa,
Gdańsk,
Gorzów Wielkopolski,
Katowice,
Kraków,
Kielce,
Lublin,
Łódź,
Olsztyn,
Opole,
Płock,
Poznań,
Radom,
Rzeszów,
Szczecin,
Toruń,
Wrocław and
Zielona Góra.
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