Freies Wort
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Freies Wort is the largest regional newspaper in southern Thuringia. Including Meininger Tageblatt, Freies Wort has a circulation of 80,000.
History and profile
The newspaper was founded as an organ of the Suhl sector of the SED.[1] It was first published as Das Freie Wort on 15 August 1952 with a circulation of 157,400 and was the smallest SED-controlled newspaper at the time and eight city desks. The newspaper was renamed to Freies Wort on 9 March 1956.
After
The chief editor is Herbert Wessels (since 2009), second editor is Markus Ermert (since 2002).
Local news desks
Freies Wort has seven local news desks:
Freies Wort cooperates with the Meininger Mediengesellschaft mbH which issues the FW Meininger Tageblatt, the two newspapers share articles and sometimes whole pages.
Together with the newspapers Neue Presse (