A revolution in public media has been going on since the end of December. The changes were felt not only by Telewizja Polska, but also by . Agnieszka Kamiñska, among others, lost her position, and it was during her term as president that Radio Trójka lost its reputation.
The head of Polish radio calms down employees. There will be no mass layoffs
Paweł Majcher became the new editor-in-chief of Polish Radio and at the same time the liquidator of the company. One of the first things he ordered after taking office was the abolition of the so-called “muzzle resolution”. This was a ban on journalists from speaking to other media without the permission of the company’s management board. From 2020, only the press spokesman had this option.
The new management of Polish Radio also introduced personnel changes. Cooperation with journalists such as Adrian Klarenbach, Anna Popek, Michał Rykowski and other names who were also associated with Polish Television was ended. It’s no wonder that all public station employees are not satisfied with their positions.
Paweł Majcher, however, reassures us. W Wirtualne Media explains that the management board approaches the matter very individually. The editor-in-chief of Polish Radio emphasizes that the directors were immediately said goodbye. We are talking about Krzysztof Świątek from Polish Radio, Paweł Piszczek from the Radio Information Agency and Marcin Wąsiewicz from Trójka.
“It matters to us what these people have been doing in recent years”
“We say goodbye to some journalists, but we give others a chance. For us, it is important what these people have been doing in recent years. We cannot generalize here – each case is individual and we consider it that way,” emphasizes Paweł Majcher.
The liquidator and editor-in-chief of Polish Radio emphasizes that the changes are a big challenge, and is also aware that the effects and the process will not appeal to all listeners. He also indicated priorities. “We acted the fastest at PR24, talking to the station’s employees about what time we could introduce other hosts and guests to end the previous standards that were offensive to public radio as soon as possible,” he says.
Majcher reassures us that his policy and idea for introducing the necessary corrections differ from the methods used by his predecessors. “The changes will continue, but we did not come to the radio with a group of friends and families, as our predecessors did, and a plan of mass layoffs,” he assures.
Agnieszka Szydłowska, the new director of Radio Trójka, also spoke in a similar tone, assuring that she had no intention of dismissing journalists just because they joined the editorial office during the rule of Law and Justice. “There’s definitely no retaliation in me: if you’ve been working until a certain year, it’s ‘OK’, and if you work later, it means ‘whoa’. I absolutely didn’t come with that thought,” she declared.
Source: Gazeta
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