About us : Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation

About us

Freedom of expression, democracy, tolerance, human rights and equality… these are the parts of the Gazeta Wyborcza’s DNA.

For 30 years we have engaged in the most important social topics in the spirit of citizen journalism. And we will continue to do this. We have learned a lot about the importance of the free media recently. Hoping to support the development of independent journalism and reliable media coverage, we established the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation.

It is our intention to promote social initiatives and citizen projects along with all activities aimed at broadening journalistic freedom, upgrading the quality of journalism, developing education and critical thinking.

Our aim is cultural and educational work in journalism, art and culture in Poland and abroad, as well as the integration of the scientific, journalistic, arts and business communities in the most important topics of the modern world – peace, freedom, democracy and civil rights.

In 2022 the Foundation was awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

Areas of our activity

independent journalism

education

human rights

culture and art

Operational field of the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation:

organize courses, conferences and debates devoted to the development of independent media and reliable transfer of information

organize exhibitions and concerts, as well as cash and in-kind donations to implement the Foundation's goals

conduct and finance public opinion polls and collect signatures for petitions for change laws

finance and promote independent journalistic projects related to the Foundation's areas of work

provide access to reliable knowledge from around the world by publishing articles from major foreign media

"In the times of ever-present propaganda and fake news, independent journalism is even more essential today. Our foundation wants to support Gazeta Wyborcza's mission and defend the freedom of speech as a foundation of democracy."

Jerzy Wójcik,
publisher of Gazeta Wyborcza,
chairman of the Foundation Council

"Gazeta Wyborcza initiates debates and social change. For journalists in Central and Eastern Europe. it is a symbol of free, democratic Poland, as well as courageous and independent journalism. The Foundation supports this mission of Gazeta Wyborcza"

Grzegorz Piechota,
Member of the Foundation Council

The Foundation's Board and Council supervises the Foundation's program and its implementation

Management

President of the Board is Jarosław Kurski. First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of "Gazeta Wyborcza"

Foundation Council

Grzegorz Piechota
longtime journalist of Gazeta Wyborcza, lecturer at the University of Oxford and the Harvard Business School

Anna Kryńska-Godlewska
member of the Management Board of Agora S.A, a manager with over twenty years of experience in managing capital investments

Adam Ringer
economist and businessman, co-owner of the Green Caffe Nero cafe and Paragona company, which organizes work for doctors and nurses abroad

Peter Wolodarski
Editor-in-Chief of Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s leading daily

Zespół fundacji

Piotr Stasiński
journalist, editor, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. Adviser to the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation

Miłosz Wiatrowski
journalist, PhD student at Yale University. In the Foundation he is the editor of News from Poland at Wyborcza.pl and the coordinator of the Investigative Journalism Programme.

Jakub Kibitlewski
student of American studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin and the New York University. In the Foundation he is the editor of News from Poland and the coordinator of the Editors School.

Danuta Kowalska-Molak
accounting and financial project management specialist, graduate of the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics in the field of tax fund administration. With Gazeta Wyborcza since 2006, in the Foundation she is the Head of Finances

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