The purpose of the article is to analyze the impact of local press on social capital. A content analysis of Gazeta Lipnicka, a newspaper published between 1997 and 2016 in Bielsko-Biała by the Lipnik Association, is used to examine its communicative and integrative role in the local community.

This article looks at press studies of the newspapers and periodicals that have been published in Zielona Góra, beginning with the pre-1945 Grünberger Wochenblatt. A turning point in the history of the region's press studies was the publication in 2000 of Andrzej K. Piasecki's monograph Lubuska czwarta władza (Zielona Góra's Fourth Estate); it was followed by a historical survey of the press of the Gorzów Wielkopolski subregion by Krzysztof Wasilewski. While research is coordinated by the Cyrian Norwid Library (among others a co-sponsor of a volume titled Oblicza prasy Ziem Zachodnich 1945–2012), the periodical Zielonogórskie Studia Bibliotekoznawcze provides a platform for new work. The latest publication in the field is Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk's monograph Pro Libris. Czasopismo Literacko-Kulturalne; a study of the newspaper Gazeta Nowa is in progress.

This article analyses the representation of the Spanish Civil War addressed to the readers of the Polish local press in Siedlce, then in the Voivodship of Lublin. In the period 1936–1939 Siedlce could boast of having three newspapers — the weekly Głos Podlaski published by the Diocesan Curia Siedlce, and two trimensuals, Ziemia Siedlecka and Życie Podlasia, both affiliated with the ruling Sanacja. Each of them showed an unflagging interest in the Spanish war, treated as a violent clash of the opposed forces of left-wing Republicanism and nationalism.

The Vladimir Lenin Steelworks and other state-owned enterprises in Nowa Huta, the eastern district of Cracow, ran a number of holiday centres all over Poland and encouraged their staff to spend their leave in those places with their family members and colleagues. This form of organized leisure was also promoted by the press. So for example Głos Nowej Huty, a weekly issued by the Workers’ Council of the VL Steelworks, published articles showing the attractions and, occasionally, problems of individual holiday homes. At the same time readers were encouraged to file in their application in good time. The publicity contributed to the success of this type of organized leisure — the number of people who took up this offer increased year on year throughout that period.

This article examines the coverage of German themes in Polish local press by focusing on a number of newspapers and periodicals published at Siedlce in the 1930s, i.e. Gazeta Podlaska, Nowa Gazeta Podlaska, Głos Podlaski, Ziemia Siedlecka, Wiadomości Diecezjalne Podlaskie and Życie Podlasia.