- Wprost
Infobox Newspaper
name = Wprost
(Direct)
caption = "Wprost" cover from May 22, 2005
type = weeklynewsmagazine
format =
foundation = 1982
owners =Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa "Wprost"
political = liberal conservative
headquarters =Warsaw
editor =Stanisław Janecki
website = http://www.wprost.pl/english"Wprost" IPA-pl| [fprɔst] ("Direct") is a weekly
newsmagazine inPoland . It was founded on December 5, 1982 as a regional magazine inGreater Poland , but since 1989 it has been distributed nationwide. The editorial office is currently located inWarsaw . "Wprost" is an opinion weekly focused onpolitics andsociety . Marek Król is thepublisher of the magazine andStanisław Janecki is theeditor-in-chief . "Wprost" is the second most popular opinion weekly in Poland with a circulation of 150,000 copies (as of June 2006). Its online edition is one of the most popularwebsite s in Poland.Past and present contributors include:
Leszek Balcerowicz ,Kevin Hogan ,Gordon Thomas ,Szewach Weiss ,Lech Wałęsa ,Leszek Miller ,Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz , andStanisław Tym .Some controversial and acclaimed articles have included criticism of the Polish Army
SFOR contingent in Bosnia (1998) and accusations against the former president of Poland,Aleksander Kwaśniewski , and his "mafia" (2005).Wprost has been criticized in the past for its controversial title pages, attempting to fuel anti-German sentiment by caricaturing German state officials (for example naked Angela Merkel breastfeeding Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński) and making some analogies to Nazi Germany. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/27/germany.poland Poland riles Germany with a lewd take on the motherland | World news | The Guardian ] ] [ [http://www.wprost25.pl/en_informacje.htm Wprost - 25 lat tygodnika ] ]
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Polityka External links
* http://www.wprost.pl/english
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