Gazeta Współczesna is a daily newspaper in the city of

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. It is also a daily newspaper in the

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, ''Podlasie''), and significant part of its territory corresponds to th ...

. The English translation is "The Modern Newspaper". There are two other newspapers in the city of Białystok, Kurier Poranny and Teraz Białystok.

History

It is the oldest daily newspaper published to this day in Bialystok. It was established on 1 September 1951 under the name of "Gazeta Białostocka", and was used as the mouthpiece of the Voivodeship Central Committee of the

Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party (, ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other legally permitted subordinate minor parti ...

. The first editor-in-chief was Stefan Pawlata. The newspaper had a competition with "

Trybuna Ludu ''Trybuna Ludu'' (; ''People's Tribune'') was one of the largest newspapers in communist Poland, which circulated between 1948 and 1990. It was the official media outlet of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) along with the televised news ...

", which already had regular readers. In 1975, in connection with the separation of the

Suwałki Suwałki (; ; or סוּוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. A relatively young ci ...

and

Łomża voivodeship Łomża Voivodeship () was an administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975 to 1998, superseded by the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Its capital city was Łomża. Cities and towns Major cities and towns (population in 1998 ...

s from the now reduced in size, Białystok Voivodeship, the name was changed to ''Gazeta Współczesna''. Until March 2024, the editor-in-chief was Adam Jakuć. In June, the position was assumed by Tomasz Dworzańczyk.

References

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