Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)

Rzeczpospolita

The front page of Rzeczpospolita on 8 April 2013
Format	Compact
Owner(s)	Gremi Media SA
Editor	Bogusław Chrabota
Founded	1920 (revived in 1944 and 1982)
Political alignment	Conservatism and Liberalism
Language	Polish
Headquarters	Warsaw
Circulation	65 thousand (2016)
Sister newspapers	Parkiet
ISSN	0208-9130
OCLC number	264077858
Website	www.rp.pl (in pl)

Rzeczpospolita (Polish pronunciation: [ʐɛt͡ʂpɔsˈpɔlʲita]) is a nationwide daily economic and legal newspaper and the only conservative-liberal newspaper in Poland. It is issued by Gremi Media SA.

The paper's title may be loosely translated as "republic", a traditional part of the full name of the Polish state, Rzeczpospolita Polska.

Rzeczpospolita is read by 274,000 adult Poles on a daily basis, of which 75% have higher education, and nearly 87% have a permanent job (9% are pensioners or disability allowance collectors, and almost 2% are students). More than three-quarters of key corporate personnel choose Rzeczpospolita; the majority of readers are specialists and professionals, CEOs, high-level state officials, managers, as well as technicians and specialised administrative staff. Over one half of Rzeczpospolita readers manage the work of others on an everyday basis.

A daily newspaper with this title was issued for the first time in 1920 as a medium of the conservative Christian National Party. It was Initially owned by its founder Ignacy Jan Paderewski and after 1924 by Wojciech Korfanty, two prominent politicians of that time. The editor-in-chief Stanisław Stroński sought to maintain quality of the content by cooperating with a group of authors, including Adolf Nowaczyński, Kornel Makuszyński, and Władysław Witwicki. The last issue of Rzeczpospolita in the Second Polish Republic appeared on the last day of 1931.

During the war (1940-1943), an irregular paper associated with one of the Polish resistance groups - Polish People's Independence Action - was issued under the same title.

In 1944 an administration dependent on the Soviet Union started activities behind the lines of the Red Army, within the territory of Poland. Initially the activity was directed only against former Nazi German forces, in order to gain the favour of Polish society.

On 23 July 1944, when the war had not been over yet, the first issue of Rzeczpospolita - the newspaper of the Polish Committee of National Liberation - was published in Chełm. The editor-in-chief was Jerzy Borejsza, a communist activist and journalist in the interwar years, who after the outbreak of war collaborated with the Russians before they entered Polish territory. His articles in Rzeczpospolita presented the opinions in line with the position of the Kremlin. The newspaper began strenuous endeavours as to form a positive image of the new government. The Home Army commanders and their decision to commence the Warsaw Uprising were criticised, while nationalisation and land reform were supported.