''Trybuna Śląska'' () was a Polish regional newspaper published in

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from 1945 to 2004.

History

Originally named ''Trybuna Robotnicza'' until 1990, it was the regional

Silesia Silesia (see names #Etymology, below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Silesia, Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at 8, ...

n authority of the ruling

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. After the fall of the

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, it was renamed ''Trybuna Śląska''. Its circulation amounted to 120,000 on weekdays and about 700,000 on weekends. It was distributed throughout three provinces:

Katowice Voivodeship Katowice Voivodeship () can refer to one of two political entities in Poland: Katowice Voivodeship (1), initially "Silesian-Dabrowa Voivodeship" (), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the years 1946–1975. It was super ...

Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship The Bielsko Voivodeship ( Polish: ''Województwo bielskie'') was a voivodeship (province) of the Polish People's Republic from 1975 to 1989, and the Third Republic of Poland from 1989 to 1998. Its capital was Bielsko-Biała. It was established on ...

and

Częstochowa Voivodeship Częstochowa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded mainly by Silesian Voivodeship, with a few gminas attached to surrounding voivodeships. Though most of the current ter ...

. After a period of brief co-ownership by

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, the newspaper was acquired by Verlagsgruppe Passau, who published ''

Dziennik Zachodni ''Dziennik Zachodni'' (, Western Daily, DZ) is a regional Polish newspaper distributed in Upper Silesia Upper Silesia ( ; ; ; ; Silesian German: ; ) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located to ...

''. After 2000, investors gradually limited the scope and circulation of the newspaper, until it was fully abolished in 2004.

Sources

* ''Katalog prasy polskiej.'' Warsaw: Biuro Wydawnicze "RUCH", 1963. * ''Katalog Prasy - Radia - Telewizji '96 Województw: Bielskiego, Częstochowskiego, Katowickiego i Opolskiego.'' Edited by M. Jachimowski. Katowice: Śląski przegląd medioznawczy 1995–1996. * Jachimowski, Marek. ''Raport. Media periodyczne w przestrzeni województwa śląskiego.'' Katowice: 2010. Daily newspapers published in Poland Mass media in Katowice {{Poland-newspaper-stub