Beginning
First number was published on March 27, 1951. The newspaper was named 'Pergalė' ( 'The
Victory') . Articles and other texts were written by hand. In 1961 newspaper's name was changed to
' Mūsų žodis' ('The Our Word') .
The building in 1930
...and in 2016
Two diploma works were written about the newspaper
Printing
In 1962 a printing typesetting machine - a typesetter was started to use.
Statistics
At the beginning it was a weekly release. In 1953 it had 1000 readers and was released
three time s a week. In 1990 it had 8000 readers. Now it has is released twice a week and has
about 4000 readers.
'Mūsų žodis' also has its online edition and a Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/musuzodis/ On Tuesdays is released a special addition for
Samogitian region 'Vakarų Lietuva' (' The Western Lithuania') together with 6 other regional newspapers.
Publishing was fully computerized in 1997. Today the staff's work is unimaginable without a
recorder and a computer on each worker's table.
Famous people
Many famous Lithuanian writers and publicists start their writing careers in our regional newspaper.
Romualdas Granauskas- the winner of National Literature prize
Stasys Jonauskas- famous national poet Laimonas Inis Stase Bucevičienė Adolfas Strakšys
Editorial staff
Now the staff consists of 10 people : Editor Vice editor Reporter Publisher Layout operator Ad-maker Other technical staff
The editor Dalia Zabitienė
The main themes
Daily life of the district Social affairs Medical affairs Elections School life Famous people and places Sport, art and music events Advertisements and commercials Compassions Police news
The newspaper celebrated its 65th
anniversary last spring