Wprost
 Wprost cover from May 22, 2005 | |
| Type | weekly newsmagazine |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa "Wprost" |
| Editor | Tomasz Lis |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Political alignment | Centrist |
| Headquarters | Warsaw |
| Website | http://www.wprost.pl/english |
Wprost (Polish pronunciation: [ˈfprɔst] "Direct") is a weekly newsmagazine in Poland. It was founded on December 5, 1982 as a regional magazine in Greater Poland, but since 1989 it has been distributed nationwide. The editorial office is currently located in Warsaw. Wprost is an opinion weekly focused on politics and society. Marek Król is the publisher of the magazine and Stanisław Janecki is the editor-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 popular websites in Poland.
Past and present contributors include: Leszek Balcerowicz, Kevin Hogan, Gordon Thomas, Szewach Weiss, Lech Wałęsa, Leszek Miller, Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, and Stanisław 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, criticizing German politics by caricaturing German state officials (for example naked Angela Merkel breastfeeding Lech Kaczyński and Jarosław Kaczyński) and making some analogies to Nazi Germany.[1][2]
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