Viața Liberă is a Romanian daily newspaper which began publication in December 1989. It is published and sold in Galați County.
It is one of the most widely read regional newspapers in Romania, with an extended audience of 159,000 daily readers.[1] According to a different source, Viața Liberă is the second local newspaper in Romania as regards to the audience, one edition reaching an average of 116,000 readers per edition.[2]
Viața Liberă is owned by European Media Investment A.G.A., a German media company. The newspaper is published every day by "Trustul de presă Dunărea de Jos - Galați." According to the Romanian Audit Bureau of Circulations, the circulation of the newspaper dropped significantly in 2008, when an average of 10,000 copies a day were published.[3] According to the same source, the newspaper published an average of 16,000 copies a day in 1999 and 14,000 a day in 2006.