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Marek Król

Marek Król

Graduated from Latin and Greek philology at the Poznań University. Journalist and publicist. 1979-1989 involved in PZPR-Polish United Workers Party, its Main Secretary in 1989. Until 1991 member of the Polish Parliament. Since 1983 journalist in Wprost weekly, in 1985 - vice editor-in-chief and since 1989 it’s editor-in-chief. In 1991 decided to leave politics behind and concentrated fully on the Wprost weekly. Turned it into one of the biggest and the strongest opinion magazine on the Polish market and continues to work on constant improvements.

Marceli Kwaśniewski

Marceli Kwaśniewski

Journalist for over 15 years (TV, newspapers, radio). Since 5 years working on the EU issues at Radio Kraków and Unia & Polska monthly. Postgraduate studies at the Centre for European Studies of the Jagiellonian University. Member of the board of the Fred Gijbels Fundation. Main interests: social communication, regional development, open society, culture, EU mechanisms of power.  

Paweł Lisicki

Paweł Lisicki

The editor-in-chief of the Rzeczpospolita daily.  

Jan Lityński

Jan Lityński

Participant of the students' manifestations in March 1968, for which he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. In 1976, he became co-founder of the “Information Bulletin”, the first uncensored Polish magazine. In 1977, he was a co-editor of “The Worker”, an independent magazine advocating the formation of free trade unions. A member of the Committee for Social Self-Defence of the Workers' Defence Committee, he cooperated with the Intervention Office of the Committee for Social Self-Defence of the Workers' Defence Committee. In 1980, he was an advisor for the “Solidarity” Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union. In 1981, when martial law was in force, he was arrested. After escaping while on leave from prison he joined the “Solidarity” underground movement, during 1984, he became a member of the Regional Executive Committee of the “Solidarity” Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union, Mazowsze Region. In 1989, he was elected to Sejm from the wałbrzyskie voivodship. Between 1989 and 2001 he was a deputy to the Sejm, he was, among others, a chairman of the Social Policy Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Since 1990 in the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action (ROAD), then in the Democratic Union and the Freedom Union (vice-chairman). He was an author of publications in the Polish and foreign press, among others in “The Criticism”, “Plus”, “Mazowsze Weekly”, “Res Publica” and other uncensored magazines before 1989. He was published in the Polish and foreign press after 1989, among others in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Rzeczpospolita”, “Dziennik”, “Polityka”, “Newsweek”, “Zeszyty Literackie”. Book publications include, among others: “The Polish Peasants' Party 1945-47 – a resistance model”, “Solidarity – problems, question marks”. He was honored with the Commodore's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Commodore's Cross with the Star. Currently an advisor for Polish President Bronisław Komorouski on issues relating to political parties and political environments. 

Albrecht von Lucke

Albrecht von Lucke

Lawyer, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik in Berlin. The author of the book: 68 oder neues Biedermeier. Der Kampf um die Deutungsmacht about the importance of the '68 generation'.

Janusz Majcherek

Janusz Majcherek

Philosopher, sociologist, journalist. Lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. He was awarded the Polish Pulitzer-Prize PRESS for the best publicist of the year 1999.

Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik

Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. Historian, "Solidarity" activist during the '80ties member of the Round Table Talks 1989. Doctorate honoris causa (The New School for Social Research in New York, the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and Connecticut College). International awards e.g.: the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award 1986, OSCE Price on Journalism and Democracy awarded by the OSCE Assembly, 1996 and Carl Bertelsmann Prize, as a tribute for his outstanding merits during the transformation process which leads Poland into democracy and free market economy. Author of numerous books e.g. Chances of Polish Democracy, London 1984 or La Deuxième Révolution, Paris 1990. His articles were published in Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Libération, El Pais, The Washington Post and many other journals and magazins.

  

Zdobysław Milewski

Graduate from Faculty of Philosophy and History at Jagiellonian University. Lecturer at Jagiellonian University, 1981-1990. Assistant in the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University. Journalist and publicist of “Tygodnik Powszechny”, “Kapitalista Powszechny”, Radio Kraków, 1989 - 1991. Press secretary In Hannan’s Suchocka government, 1992 – 1993. Member of the TVP SA Board, 1994 – 1997. Member of parliament, 1993 – 1997. Counselor and Charge D’affaires at the Polish Embassy in Athens, 1998 – 2002. Director of Press Department at Marshall Office of the Małopolska Voivodship, since 2002. Representative of the Malopolska Region.

Tomasz Müller

Tomasz Müller

Journalist, lecturer, trainer of media competences. MA in philosophy at Jagiellonian University. Works at Radio Krakow, formerly TV reporter at TVN (commercial TV) and TVP (Polish public TV). Cooperates with BBC World Service. Lectures at Jagiellonian University and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.
 
 

Małgorzata Nocuń

Małgorzata Nocuń

Journalist of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, covers social and political issues concerning Eastern Europe. Awarded by the Mayor of Kiev and independent research institute with the Golden Pen for the best information adbout Orange Revolution in foreign media. 

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