Press freedom in Poland under pressure at year´s end
(World News Austria)

Poland ends 2018 with worrying developments in the climate towards journalists. As the country enters election season, leading up to parliamentary elections in autumn 2019, two separate incidents point to rising pressure on the press. The first incident relates to independent media outlets` coverage of the scandal at the country`s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) in November, which led its chairman Marek Chrzanowski to resign amid allegations of corruption. In their coverage of the scandal and its aftermath, journalists at Gazeta Wyborcza suggested thatthe president of the National Bank of Poland (NBP), Adam Glapi´nski, Chrzanowski`s mentor, was involved. In response, at the end of...