Tomasz Lis
| Tomasz Lis | |
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 Tomasz Lis, 2007 | |
| Born |
6 March 1966 Zielona Góra, Poland |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, TV presenter |
Tomasz Lis [ˈtɔmaʂ ˈlis] (
) (born March 6, 1966, Zielona Góra) is a Polish journalist and former TV anchor of “TVN Fakty” ("TVN Facts") and “Wydarzenia” ("Events"). According to Dorota Kania, a journalist of Wprost and Gazeta Polska magazines, Lis is the son of a prominent member of the Polish United Workers' Party, and in the 1980s, shortly studied at Karl Marx University in Leipzig.[1] Tomasz Lis began his career in TVP (Polish Public Television) in 1990 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."
Family
He married Kinga Rusin in June 1994. The couple divorced on June 27, 2006. They have two daughters: Pola and Iga. In 2007 married a well-known Polish journalist, Hanna Smoktunowicz.
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