Tomasz Lis
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Tomasz Lis | |
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 Tomasz Lis, 2007 | |
| Born | 6 March 1966 |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Education | University of Warsaw |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, TV presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Kinga Rusin (1994-2006) Hanna Smoktunowicz (2007-) |
Tomasz Rafał Lis [ˈtɔmaʂ ˈlis] (born 6 March 1966 in Zielona Góra) is a Polish journalist and former TV anchor of “TVN Fakty” ("TVN Facts") and “Wydarzenia” ("Events").
Life and career
He was born on 6 March 1966 in Zielona Góra to parents Stefan and Wanda (née Adamkiewicz). He attended the Edward Dembowski High School No. 1 in Zielona Góra. He subsequently graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He began his career in 1984 publishing an article in a pro-Soviet newspaper Standard for the Young (Sztandar Młodych),[1] an organ of the Union of Socialistic Youth in Poland (Związek Socjalistycznej Młodzieży Polskiej). In 1992, he received a scholarship and studied for a year at the Loyola University New Orleans. After the fall of communism in Poland, he worked in the Public Television Polish Television (TVP) after winning an open competition for the post of a newsreader.
From 1994 to 1997: correspondent in Washington, D.C. for TVP.
From 1997 to 2004: co-author of “Fakty TVN” on Polish television station TVN.
From 2006 to 2007: editor-in-chief of "Wydarzenia" on Polsat.
In 2003 he published his book Co z tą Polską? (What's with Poland?) which became a bestseller in Poland (selling over 100,000 copies).
From late 2010 to February 2012: editor-in-chief of the current affairs weekly "Wprost."
In March 2012 he became editor-in-chief of "Newsweek Polska."
In 2017 Tomasz Lis was shortlisted for the European Press Prize, for his columns in Newsweek Polska.
Awards
- Wiktor Award (9-time laureate)
- Super Wiktor Award (2006)
- Journalist of the Year (1997), (2007), (2009)
- Telekamera Award (2002), (2006)
- Kisiel Prize (2005)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2014)
- Hyena of the Year (2015)[2]
Controversies
In 2013, the Association of Polish Journalists nominated him for the "Hyena of the Year" anti-award for "exceeding journalistic standards by publishing a cover based on vulgar associations, insulting religious feelings and creating negative stereotypes". The nomination was related to the cover of issue 9/13 of the Newsweek weekly, showing a boy kneeling in front of a priest suggesting forced oral sex performed by a child.
On September 7, 2015, the Newsweek Polska weekly led by Tomasz Lis published an article by Wojciech Cieśl and Michał Krzymowski about the chairman of the Solidarity Trade Union, Piotr Duda. The cover text described the trade unionist's luxurious vacation, it was also suggested that part of the costs of the stay was covered with the union's money, and the holidaymaker did not pay for some of the standard-paid services due to the position held and the organization's connections with the hotel. In the court battle that had been going on for three years, on 5 July 2018, a final judgment was issued ordering Lis to publish a correction to a text which he had previously refused as the editor-in-chief of the weekly.
During the 2015 presidential election campaign, in the TVP2 program Tomasz Lis, the journalist referred to a post on the Twitter profile, which, according to the journalist, was to belong to the daughter of the future president, Andrzej Duda. Kinga Duda was to announce that if her father wins the election, she will make efforts for the director Paweł Pawlikowski to return the Oscar for the film Ida. The information was not checked and it soon turned out that the profile did not belong to Kinga Duda, and she had never been accused of it herself. The case did not end with a trial, because Lis apologized to the candidate during a short interview in front of the TVP headquarter. Polish Television apologized to the candidate for the journalist's behavior in the main issue of TVP1 Wiadomości.
In 2018, he participated in the protests of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy against the new Law and Justice government.
Family
He married Kinga Rusin in June 1994. The couple divorced on June 27, 2006. They have two daughters: Pola (born in 1996) and Iga, born in 2000. In 2007 married a well-known Polish journalist, Hanna Smoktunowicz.
External links
References
- [1] Lis, Tomasz. "Moje życie w barze." Tomasz Lis - Blog, published 6 April 2014. URL: https://natemat.pl/blogi/tomaszlis/9287,moje-zycie-w-barze. Last accessed 9 March 2019.
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