Jan Rybicki won the 1st edition of Polska Stories. “These texts say more about Poland than brawls on Facebook or more politicians”
Polska Stories is a several-month educational program for young reporters who start working in the profession. Weekend.gazeta.pl magazine will host the award-winning reporter Olg Gitkiewicz.
Out of ten reports, the jury chose the best one. The first place in the first edition of the Polska Stories competition was taken by Jan Rybicki, who wrote an article about a young football player and the reality of women’s football. The author of the article will join the permanent associates of weekend.gazeta.pl for six months.
The competition jury consisted of: Anna Budyska, editor-in-chief of weekend.gazeta.pl, Olga Gitkiewicz, reporter and host of the Polska Stories program, Bartosz Jzefiak, reporter and speaker at the Polska Stories workshop, Rafa Madajczak, editor-in-chief of gazeta.pl and Jolanta Moliska, deputy editor-in-chief weekend.gazeta.pl.
Appreciated for the use of detail, workshop and important social topics
During the vote, Bartosz Jzefiak emphasized that “the report is about telling disappearing stories”. And that’s what the winner of the competition did.
The author managed to make me like the heroine Ol at the beginning and I followed her lead, becoming her fan. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and nervous that she will be successful – although I felt that this story could not end well. Like in a good movie.
Here we have a story of love and passion – one of our motifs in culture in general. It’s easy to fall into a ban here, but the author avoided this reef
– noticed.
Jolanta Moliska, deputy editor-in-chief of weekend.gazeta.pl, fully agrees with him:
Ola’s story drew me in from the beginning. The vivid language in which I was told, the construction of my head, whole sequences of images. Reading this reportage – although at times brutal, difficult, multi-layered – gave me pleasure.
Olga Gitkiewicz, who worked with Janek on the text for several months, drawing attention to the process of re-reporting itself:
The winner was not decided by the text or the theme, everything was at stake: the idea, the stage of collecting the material, the language, the construction. I really appreciate this workshop and the way of working: always on time, all comments taken into account, all questions and doubts resolved.
The Polska Stories program will be girls
I Polska Stories is coming to an end, it lasts from April 28 to December 26, 2022. As part of the program, four online trainings were held, the fourth one – a stationary meeting – took place at Agora’s headquarters in Warsaw.
In August last year, participants and participants of the program came to Czersk, including from Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Gdańsk, Odź, Bratucice. Some of them are professionally related to various industries, e.g. in corporations, event companies, law firms, or start your studies. Thanks to Polska Stories, they could see how challenging the profession of a reporter is and whether they want to work with it permanently. All texts participating in Polska Historie were donated and their authors received a prize for them.
Polska Stories is a unique program that will give voice to the authors of the young generation.
Difficulties in finding a text set in Polish media. People who were reached by young reporters and reporters included: employees of libraries in the dzkie and witokrzyskie voivodships, fans of the beehive from Grudzidz, a beekeeper from Maopolska, a football player from Podlasie, participants of the cult concerts from the late 80s in Stalowa Wola.
The variety of nominal topics, their locality and the authors’ focus on the heroes of our everyday life – these are the main features of the materials created as part of the first edition of Polska Stories.
– comments Anna Budyska, editor-in-chief of weekend.gazeta.pl, organizer of the competition.
Reports by young journalists were appreciated not only by the jury of the competition. They were also noticed, or rather primarily, by the readers of gazeta.pl. The texts are well received on the gazeta.pl portal and social news.
Internet users want to get to know the perspective of young journalists, find out how Generation Z looks at the world, what is important to them, what is their interest. That is why weekend.gazeta.pl children Polska Stories and the program of the 2nd edition of the competition for young reporters and female reporters.
If Polska Stories were a book, my blurb would be: alas, in “my time” there were no such programs, because maybe once in my life I wrote a nice report
– comments Rafa Madajczak, editor-in-chief of gazeta.pl.
Dozens of reports, in my estimation, so speak about the country we live in than the brawls sweeping social media every now and then, or the report of the involvement of politicians
– Anna Budyska.