[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.

[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.

[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.