Who owns polish media

Related Stories. Read More About: Discovery Inc. All Rights reserved. Close the menu Logo text. Politicians in or allied with PiS have used two terms in relation to the private media — foreign or domestically-owned. A possible target could be Polish media company Agora, the publisher of the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily, which is strongly critical of the government. Agora also owns a photographic agency Agencja Gazeta , radio stations and a publishing house, among other outlets.

However, it reemerged during that election campaign, after President Andrzej Duda, the PiS-allied candidate, who was re-elected for a second term in July, accused Fakt of meddling in the election after it reported on a pardon that he granted to a man who had served his sentence in a paedophilia case. This has been their goal for the last five years. Mr Kaczynski is dreaming about Budapest in Warsaw. That's why I think this is rather rhetoric than real aim," Imielski said.

Roman Imielski, the deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, says PiS wants to silence independent media. PiS officials have also discussed in the past the possibility of purchasing a chain of German-owned regional newspapers by a state-owned company such as Orlen or PZU. PKN Orlen is now finalizing the purchase of a large kiosk chain, Ruch, and there have been rumors that Ruch could later buy some newspapers.

As Poland's media become increasingly politicized, publisher Agora and a Soros-backed fund have teamed up to buy the second-largest radio station. With elections looming, the anti-PiS coalition is preparing to fight.

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Some ruling party members have called for changes in the law to reduce foreign ownership of the media, advocating a "repolonisation" of the sector. There were nearly 30 million internet users by the end of InternetWorldStats. Facebook is the leading social network.