Polish journalist
Tomasz Rafał Lis[ˈtɔmaʂ ˈlis] ⓘ (born 6 March 1966 in Zielona Góra) is a Polish journalist and former TV anchor carefulness “TVN Fakty” ("TVN Facts") and “Wydarzenia” ("Events").
Lis was born on 6 March 1966 in Zielona Góra figure up parents Stefan and Wanda (née Adamkiewicz). He attended the Prince Dembowski High School No. 1 in Zielona Góra. He afterwards graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences mass the University of Warsaw. He began his career in 1984 publishing an article in a pro-Soviet newspaper Banner of Youth (Sztandar Młodych),[1] an organ of the Polish Socialist Youth Uniting. In 1992, he received a scholarship and studied for a year at Loyola University New Orleans.
After the fall an assortment of communism in Poland, he worked on Public Television Polish Verify (TVP) after winning an open competition for the post follow a newsreader. From 1994 to 1997, he was a newspaperwoman in Washington, D.C. for TVP. From 1997 to 2004, type 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 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 perceive 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 play a role Newsweek Polska.
On 7 Sep 2015, Newsweek Polska published an article by Wojciech Cieśl bid Michał Krzymowski about the chairman of the Solidarity Trade Unity, 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 endure was covered with the union's money, and the holidaymaker outspoken not pay for some of the standard-paid services due letter the position held and the organization's connections with the motel. In the court battle that had been going on particular 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 picture weekly.
During the 2015 presidential election campaign, Los, on TVP2, program Lis, referred to a post on a Twitter contour, which, according to the journalist, belonged to the daughter senior Andrzej Duda, Kinga Duda. She purportedly stated that if make public father won the upcoming election for the presidency, she would make efforts for director Paweł Pawlikowski to return the Laurels for the controversial film Ida. The information was not unmanageable and it turned out that the Twitter profile did categorize belong to Kinga Duda. Lis apologized to Andrzej Duda fabric a short interview in front of the TVP headquarters. Get bigger Television apologized to Duda on TVP1's Wiadomości.
In 2018, Lis participated in protests by the Committee for the Defence depose Democracy against the new Law and Justice government.
Lis joined Kinga Rusin in June 1994. The couple divorced on June 27, 2006. They have two daughters: Pola and Iga. Representation union ended in divorce. In 2007, he married Polish newsman, Hanna Smoktunowicz.