Tomasz Lis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tomasz Lis (born March 6, 1966) in Zielona Góra is one of the most popular Polish journalists, the creator of “TVN Fakty” and “Wydarzenia”.
Tomasz Lis began his career in TVP (Polish Public Television) on May 3, 1990 after winning an open competition for the post of a newsreader.
He left Poland in 1994 and worked for three years as a correspondent in Washington, D.C..
He returned to Poland in 1997 and began working for TVN where he was the co-author and the main newsreader of “TVN Fakty”. Tomasz Lis is widely believed to be the author of the huge success of “TVN Fakty”.
Tomasz Lis was suspended in his duties, and subsequently dismissed from TVN on February 10, 2004 on a charge of not keeping to the rules of his contract. It is believed, however, that the true reason behind his dismissal was a presidential poll that had been published in the Polish edition of Newsweek. It indicated that Lis had a major chance of winning the Presidential Election of 2005 as he came second only to the, back then, Polish First Lady Jolanta Kwaśniewska.
His book „Co z tą Polską? (published in 2003) became a bestseller (over 100,000 books sold).
He married Kinga Rusin in June 1994. They have two daughters Pola and Iga. They divorced on June 27, 2006.
