Szabad Föld (Hungarian: Free Land or Soil) is a weekly newspaper published in Budapest, Hungary. The paper has been in circulation since 1945.

Szabad Föld was established in 1945.^[1] The paper is published on a weekly basis and appears on Fridays.^[2] It was the organ of the People’s Patriotic Front^[1] and of the working peasantry during the communist rule in Hungary.^[3]

In the late 1990s the Attila József Foundation was the co-owner of Szabad Föld.^[4] The Geoholding media group became the owner of the weekly in July 2004 when it purchased paper's owner, Book Publisher Rt.^[5] Its publisher was Szabad Lap Publisher Kft.^[5]

Szabad Föld became part of the Central European Press and Media Foundation in 2018 which is close to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.^[6][7] The foundation acquired the paper from László Puch.^[7]

The headquarters of Szabad Föld is in Budapest.^[1][8] However, its target audience is non-urban people,^[9] and it mostly covers local and agricultural issues.^[10] In fact, the paper was called as peasants' newspaper or countryside weekly during its initial phase.^[11][12] At that time the paper financed winter-evening lectures in the country.^[13]

Lajos Feher served as the editor-in-chief of Szabad Föld. As of 2010 its editor-in-chief was László Horváth.^[10]

In 1976 Szabad Föld sold 350,000 copies.^[1] Its circulation was 176,385 copies in 2002.^[14] In 2003 the weekly had a circulation of 160,000 copies.^[15][16] The paper sold 115,326 copies in 2009, making it the second most read weekly in the country.^[10] The circulation of the paper was 82,261 copies in 2013.^[17] It sold 60,000 copies in 2018.^[7] Its circulation decreased to 37,859 in 2022.^[18]