''Warsaw Voice: Polish and Central European Review'' (shortly ''The Warsaw Voice'') is an
English-language
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newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
printed in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
, concentrating on
news
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about
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
and its neighbours. First released in October 1988, it is a general news magazine with sections on political, economic, social and cultural news and with opinions sections. The printed edition has a
circulation of 10,500.
It was created by Polish tv-presenter and journalist
Andrzej Jonasz
Andrzej is the Polish form of the given name Andrew.
Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej
* Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer
* Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and m ...
.
After the fall of
communism
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in 1989, many Western European companies started to come to Poland, such as the American Coca-Cola, the French Carrefour, the German Volkswagen and the Dutch Philips (then lamps), ING bank and Makro wholesalers. The expat community in Warsaw and surroudings quickly grew to some tens of thousands. The Voice caters specially to their needs, offering primarily economic, political and cultural news and background. The Voice concentrates its reporting on Warsaw and surroundings. From 1992 until 1998 The Voice had one foreign correspondent,