One-man board for PAP, Dmochowski to stay on as CEO – media authority
The Polish Press Agency (PAP) will have a one-man management board, the National Media Council (RMN) decided on Thursday.
The media authority adopted a resolution in which it decided that Artur Dmochowski will stay on as the CEO of the news agency, RMN head Krzysztof Czabanski said.
Dmochowski will serve a four-year term, Czabanski told PAP.
He added that the resolution on introducing a one-man board at PAP meant that the agency’s previous management board members, Lidia Sobanska and Arkadiusz Szymanek, were relieved of their positions.
Sobanska and Szymanek were dismissed in connection with the expiration of their terms, Czabanski said.
Sobanska was a board member at PAP from 2010 to 2013; from 2013 she was a member of the board in charge of commercial policy; Szymanek was a board member for finance since 2013.
Dmochowski was appointed as CEO of PAP by the supervisory board on May 9.
Dmochowski is a journalist, historian and diplomat. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. He also studied at postgraduate level at the University of Maryland. In the 1980s, he co-founded Poland’s Independent Students’ Union (NZS) and was active in the underground publishing movement. He was also the founder and editor-in-chief of Od Nowa and Czas Solidarnosci magazines.
After Poland shook off communism in 1989, he worked as an editor and journalist at media outlets including Nowy Dziennik in New York, Polish state broadcaster TVP, and Gazeta Polska newspaper. He founded and managed the public television broadcaster’s TVP Historia channel.
Prior to his appointment as CEO of PAP, Dmochowski worked as press spokesman for the Polish
Foreign Ministry. (PAP)
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