Monika Olejnik

Monika Olejnik (born 1956) is a Polish radio, newspaper and TV journalist.[1] She studied zoology at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. First she worked in Polish Radio I in a programme for farmers.[1] Olejnik is the daughter of a Communist secret services colonel Tadeusz Olejnik, who worked for the services until 1987.[2] In the early 1980s, as a beginning journalist, she participated in press conferences of Communist government spokesperson, Jerzy Urban, where, according to the "Fakty i Mity" weekly, she would ask Urban questions which had been handed to her before the conferences. "Fakty i Mity", which belongs to Sejm deputy Roman Kotliński, also wrote that Olejnik "owes her career to her father's connections".[3] Tadeusz Zakrzewski, a Communist-period journalist and agent of the services, confirms this fact. In February 2004, in Wprost weekly, he wrote: "Monika Olejnik was placed in the Polish Radio in the first days of the martial law upon order of a military commissar. The person who stood behind this decision was her father, a colonel of an important unit of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration".[4]

Olejnik stayed in the Polish Radio until 2000. She was well-known for her interviews with politicians and other public individuals in "Salon Polityczny Trójki" (Political Salon of Channel 3).[5] In TVN Television she worked on the programme "Kropka nad i" ("The final word").[6] Since September 2004 she was an interviewer for "Prosto w oczy" ("Straight in the eyes"), a programme on Polish Television Channel I.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Wprost, Ludzie Wprost, [1]
  2. ^ Kłótnia w rodzinie, niezalezna.pl, 2011-11-16
  3. ^ List w obronie Moniki Olejnik by Rzeczpospolita.pl, 16-11-2011
  4. ^ Powszechne ześwinienie, Wprost weekly, Numer: 6/2004 (1106)
  5. ^ Archiwum, President of Poland website, [2]
  6. ^ Wiadomosci, [3]
  7. ^ TVP, Prosto w Oczy, [4]