Gazeta Wyborcza

Gazeta Wyborcza
Nie ma wolności bez solidarności[1]
("There Is No Freedom without Solidarity")
Headquarters of Agora, the publisher of Gazeta Wyborcza in Warsaw
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Founder(s)
  • Adam Michnik
  • Helena Łuczywo
  • Piotr Niemczycki
  • Juliusz Rawicz
  • Ernest Skalski
PublisherAgora
Editor-in-chiefAdam Michnik
Deputy editorJarosław Kurski
Associate editor
  • Mikołaj Chrzan
  • Roman Imielski
  • Aleksandra Sobczak
  • Piotr Stasiński
  • Bartosz T. Wieliński[2]
Managing editorWojciech Bartkowiak[3]
Founded8 May 1989; 35 years ago (1989-05-08)
Political alignmentLiberalism[4][5][6][7]
LanguagePolish
HeadquartersWarsaw
CityWarsaw
CountryPoland
Circulation42,388 (Print, March 2023)[8]
218,000[9] (Digital, 2019)
ISSN0860-908X
Websitewyborcza.pl

Gazeta Wyborcza (Polish pronunciation: [ɡaˈzɛta vɨˈbɔrtʂa]; The Electoral Gazette in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the trade union "Solidarity" in the election campaign before the Contract Sejm.[10][11] Initially created to cover Poland's first partially free parliamentary elections, it rapidly grew into a major publication, reaching a circulation of over 500,000 copies at its peak in the 1990s.

It is published by Agora, with its original editor-in-chief Adam Michnik,[12][13] appointed by Lech Wałęsa,[14] Gazeta Wyborcza is one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the gamut of political, international and general news from a liberal perspective.[15][16][17] Gazeta Wyborcza also publishes thematic supplements addressing topics such as economy, law, education, and health, including Duży Format, Co Jest Grane 24, and Wysokie Obcasy.

Since its founding, Gazeta Wyborcza's investigative journalism has played a key role in shaping the Polish public opinion, such as its coverage of the Rywin affair, the Skin Hunters scandal in 2002, and the PKN Orlen scandal in 2004. In recent years, Gazeta Wyborcza has emerged as a leading liberal voice on issues like the separation of church and state and civil liberties, including women's rights and LGBT rights, which has sometimes resulted in conflicts with Poland's conservative PiS-led government (which was in power between 2015 and 2023). As of June 2022, Gazeta Wyborcza had over 290,000 digital subscribers,[18] and 80,000 print sales.[19] In 2020, Gazeta Wyborcza was the 10th most read newspaper in Europe.[20]

  1. ^ ""Gazeta Wyborcza" zmienia swoje hasło na "Nie ma wolności bez solidarności"" [Gazeta Wyborcza changes its slogan to "There is no freedom without solidarity"]. Agora (in Polish). Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Redakcja Gazety Wyborczej". Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  3. ^ BAE (9 December 2021). "Wojciech Bartkowiak dyrektorem wydawniczym "GW", ma dołączyć też do zarządu Agory SA". Press.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Journalistic role performance in Poland". Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne (2): 37–51. 2016. ISSN 1731-7517.
  5. ^ Graff, A. (2010). "Looking at Pictures of Gay Men: Political Uses of Homophobia in Contemporary Poland". Public Culture. 22 (3): 583–603. doi:10.1215/08992363-2010-010.
  6. ^ Zinken, Jörg (2003). "Ideological Imagination: Intertextual and Correlational Metaphors in Political Discourse". Discourse & Society. 14 (4): 507–523. doi:10.1177/0957926503014004005. S2CID 145324531.
  7. ^ Doring, M.; Zinken, Joerg (June 2005). "The cultural crafting of embryonic stem cells: the metaphorical schematisation of stem cell research in the Polish and French press". Metaphorik.de (8): 6–33. Adam Michnik is also editor of the largest Polish daily newspaper, the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza.
  8. ^ ""Gazeta Wyborcza" z największym spadkiem sprzedaży w I kwartale 2023 roku". 9 May 2023.
  9. ^ Agora 2019
  10. ^ Adam Leszczyński. "4 czerwca 1989 r. Czy cały naród poszedł głosować przeciw komunistom?". oko.press. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  11. ^ ""Gazeta Wyborcza" po 33 latach: Prasowy tygrys czy zakurzona kanapa?". wirtualnemedia.pl (in Polish). 14 May 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Polish Dissident Adam Michnik: 'We Are Bastards of Communism'". Der Spiegel (31). 29 July 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  13. ^ Ryszard Filas; Pawe Paneta (2009). "Media in Poland and Public Discourse". In Andrea Czepek; et al. (eds.). Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe. Bristol: Intellect. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  14. ^ Everete E. Dennis; Jon Vanden Heuvel (October 1990). "Emerging Voices: East European Media in Transition. A Gannett Foundation Report" (Report). Ganet Foundation. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  15. ^ Kayser-Bril, Nicolas (10 August 2016). "Don't ask too much from data literacy". The Journal of Community Informatics. 12 (3). doi:10.15353/joci.v12i3.3286. ISSN 1712-4441.
  16. ^ Le, Elisabeth; Radut-Gaghi, Luciana; Silletti, Alida Maria; Wagner, Hedwig (2021), Le, Elisabeth; Radut-Gaghi, Luciana; Silletti, Alida Maria; Wagner, Hedwig (eds.), "Centenary of WWI Armistice, Commemoration, and Memory", Media Discourse of Commemoration, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–39, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90079-3_1, ISBN 978-3-030-90078-6, S2CID 246222277, retrieved 15 February 2023
  17. ^ Krakowska, Joanna (December 2021). "Eating Bananas Outside the National Museum: Unlimited Semiosis". TDR. 65 (4): 131–146. doi:10.1017/S1054204321000587. ISSN 1054-2043. S2CID 244731736.
  18. ^ ""Gazeta Wyborcza" z ponad 280 tys. prenumerat cyfrowych na koniec 2021 r." Agora (in Polish). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  19. ^ "Sprzedaż dzienników w marcu zmalała o 15 proc. "Przegląd Sportowy" 35 proc. w dół, "GW" i "GPC" prawie 20 proc". www.wirtualnemedia.pl (in Polish). 6 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  20. ^ "Global Digital Subscriptions Snapshot 2020 Q3". 1 October 2020. Archived from the original on 2 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.