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18-468: Wprost ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈfprɔst] , meaning "Directly") is a Polish weekly news magazine published in Poznań , Poland. It has been published since 1982. Since 2020 it has been available in a digital version only. The magazine's political alignment is usually considered to be moderately right-wing , however many intellectuals associated with the left have also published articles in

36-676: A bestseller in Poland (selling over 100,000 copies). From 2006-07, he was editor-in-chief of Wydarzenia . From late 2010 to February 2012, he was editor-in-chief of the current affairs weekly, Wprost . In March 2012, he took over as editor-in-chief of Newsweek Polska . In 2017, Lis was shortlisted for the European Press Prize , for his columns in Newsweek Polska . On 7 September 2015, Newsweek Polska published an article by Wojciech Cieśl and Michał Krzymowski about

54-533: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Mauritius -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tomasz Lis 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"). Lis was born on 6 March 1966 in Zielona Góra to parents Stefan and Wanda (née Adamkiewicz). He attended

72-779: 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 Banner of Youth ( Sztandar Młodych ), an organ of the Polish Socialist Youth Union . In 1992, he received a scholarship and studied for a year at Loyola University New Orleans . After

90-511: The fall of communism in Poland, he worked on Public Television Polish Television (TVP) after winning an open competition for the post of a newsreader. From 1994 to 1997, he was a correspondent in Washington, D.C. for TVP. From 1997 to 2004, he was on Fakty TVN on the Polish television station TVN . In 2003, he published his book Co z tą Polską? ( What's with Poland? ), which became

108-545: The Wprost Magazine Person of the Year title. Each month the weekly provides an English-language supplement, WiK English Edition , which focuses on concerts, exhibitions, and interesting weekend getaways, and an in-depth guide to Warsaw's dining and nightlife. Under auspices of the weekly, the jury composed of winners of previous editions grants annual Kisiel Prizes . Wprost weekly itself has granted Man of

126-525: The Year awards. The magazine has published numerous periodical rankings, such as “Top 100 Richest Poles”, “Top 100 Most Influential Poles”, the list of top innovative companies. In June 2014, Wprost published a series of transcripts of secret recordings involving senior Polish government officials which were believed to have been made in one or more restaurants in the capital, Warsaw, and thought to date back as far as Summer 2013. These included one in which Radoslaw Sikorski , Polish minister of foreign affairs,

144-465: The beginning of the 2000s the publisher was Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa Wprost . It has been published by Platforma Mediowa Point Group since 2010. In 2012, according to the Institute of Media Monitoring (IMM), the magazine was the most cited weekly by other media outlets in Poland as well as among the most cited of all media published in the country. On 30 March 2020, the last printed edition of

162-487: The chairman of the Solidarity Trade Union, Piotr Duda (no apparent relation to Andrzej Duda , see below). The cover 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

180-477: 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, Los, on TVP2 , program Lis, referred to a post on a Twitter profile, which, according to the journalist, belonged to the daughter of Andrzej Duda , Kinga Duda. She purportedly stated that if her father won

198-499: The magazine was Janusz Przybysz who served in the post between 1982 and 1983. Then Waldemar Kosiński was the editor-in-chief and his term ended in 1989. The longest working editor-in-chief was Marek Król (1989–2006) and until December 2006 he acted also as the president and majority shareholder in Wprost magazine. Between May 2006 and January 2007 duties of the editor-in-chief were fulfilled by Piotr Gabryel. Upon his resignation in 2007,

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216-479: The magazine was published and currently it is only available in digital form. Wprost had a circulation of 218,000 copies in 2001–02. The circulation of the magazine was 102,987 in 2010 and 115,645 copies in 2011. The print and e-edition circulation of the weekly was 130,136 in August 2014. Since 1990, the magazine has been publishing its annual list of the richest people in Poland and since 1991 it has been awarding

234-464: The magazine. Wprost has described itself as a centrist magazine. The first issue of Wprost was released on 5 December 1982, as a regional magazine in Greater Poland whereas since 1989 it has transformed into a nationwide magazine. The weekly provides social and political commentary and is based in Poznań . It was designed based on the formats of Time and Newsweek magazines. At

252-545: The position was taken by Stanisław Janecki. After acquisition of 80% of shares in Agencja Wydawniczo-Reklamowa “Wprost” by Platforma Mediowa Point Group at the end of 2009, Janecki left the magazine and Katarzyna Kozłowska became the acting editor-in-chief. Tomasz Lis was in charge of the magazine between May 2010 and 2012. Michał Kobosko was appointed editor-in-chief in February 2012 and served in

270-574: The post until 2013. Weekly (news magazine) It was started as a weekly section, named Outlook, of L'Express newspaper. It became a weekly magazine in July 2012. The magazine is published on Fridays. The editor-in-chief , Touria Prayag, was temporarily banned from Mauritian Parliament in 2016 by its speaker, Maya Hanoomanjee , for a critical editorial published in Weekly on 28 April 2016. This news magazine or journal-related article

288-419: The remarks he is alleged to have made. The publication of the secret recordings led to calls for the resignation of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the launching of an inquiry into how Wprost had obtained them. The magazine's chief editor, Sylwester Latkowski, was questioned as a witness in the inquiry after he resisted attempts to search the magazine's office and computers. The first editor-in-chief of

306-611: The upcoming election for the presidency, she would make efforts for director Paweł Pawlikowski to return the Oscar for the controversial film Ida . The information was not checked and it turned out that the Twitter profile did not belong to Kinga Duda. Lis apologized to Andrzej Duda during a short interview in front of the TVP headquarters. Polish Television apologized to Duda on TVP1's Wiadomości . In 2018, Lis participated in protests by

324-525: Was recorded in a conversation with the former Polish finance minister Jacek Rostowski using very derogatory terms to criticise British Prime Minister David Cameron and Cameron's handling of the EU to appease Eurosceptics . In another transcript the country's Central Bank governor, Marek Belka , discussed the forthcoming 2015 election with the interior minister. Sikorski did not deny the remarks attributed to him by Wprost , and Belka said he would not resign over

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