Wprost

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Wprost (Outright)‎
Wprost cover from May 22, 2005
Type	weekly newsmagazine
Format

Owner	Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa "Wprost"
Editor	Piotr Gabryel
Founded	1982
Political allegiance	liberal conservative
Headquarters	Warsaw

Website: http://www.wprost.pl/english

Wprost ("Outright") is a weekly newsmagazine in Poland, founded on December 5, 1982 as a regional magazine in Greater Poland, since 1989 it is distributed country-wide. Editorial office is currently located in Warsaw. "Wprost" is an opinion weekly focused on politics and society and has a liberal-conservative profile. Marek Król is the publisher of the magazine and Piotr Gabryel 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, Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz and Stanisław Tym.

Wprost has unequal level of publications. Sometimes it touches real problems (criticism of former president of Poland Kwasniewski and his "mafia", 2005), sometimes it has made big mistakes (unreal critic of Polish Army SFOR contingent in Bosnia, 1998).