Projekt Spięcie

‘Projekt Spięcie’ was selecterd for the 2020 European Press Prize.

“Spięcie” is a new initiative that aims to tackle the issues of polarization and social media bubbles. Five magazines, with diverse political outlooks, came together to look for a way to engage in a public debate that would be honest and fruitful. The point of departure for us is the conviction that the fact that people have different worldviews can be a great start of a dialogue and not the end of it.

Every few weeks we pick a topic those five magazines with different political views each write about – and then we publish each other’s stories. In this way, readers are confronted with new ideas and points of view. Journalists participating in the project cannot preach to the choir and have to write in ways that are accessible for people who may not agree with them.

The project also works on a more symbolic level. Liberal or conservative, Catholic or anti-clerical, left-wing or right-wing, all these magazines acknowledge the right of people on the other side of the political spectrum to engage in a respectful and meaningful public debate.

Projekt Spięcie is supported by “Fundusz Obywatelski”

An overview of all people involved in Projekt Spięcie (authors, editors, and editors-in-chief) – in alphabetical order:

Agata Diduszko-Zyglewska

Agnieszka Wiśniewska (editor-in-chief Krytyka Polityczna)

Anna Cieplak

Anna Dobrowolska

Bartłomiej Radziejwski (editor-in-chief Nowa Konfederacja)

Bartosz Brzyski

Hanna Frejlak

Ignacy Dudkiewicz (editor-in-chief Magazyn Kontakt)

Iza Mrzygłód

Jakub Bodziony

Janina Petelczyc

Jarema Piekutowski (editor Nowa Konfederacja)

Jarosław Kuisz (editor-in-chief Kultura Liberalna)

Jędrzej Malko (project coordinator)

Joanna Derlikiewicz

Kacper Szulecki

Kaja Puto

Kamil Lipiński

Kamil Fejfer

Karolina Olejak (editor Klub Jagielloński)

Katarzyna Kasia

Krzysztof Mazur

Łukasz Bertram

Łukasz Pawłowski (editor Kultura Liberalna)

Łukasz Kobeszko

Maciek Onyszkiewicz

Magdalena Błędowska

Marcin Kędzierski

Maria Libura

Michał Matlak

Michał Sutowski

Misza Tomaszewski

Natalia Kołodyńska-Magdziarz

Paweł Cywiński

Pawel Musiałek

Piotr Jesionowski

Piotr Kaszczyszyn

Piotr Trudnowski (editor-in-chief Klub Jagielloński)

Przemysław Sadura

Rafał Matyja

Slawek Blich (editor Krytyka Polityczna)

Stanisław Zakroczymski

Stanisław Maksymowicz

Stefan Sękowski (editor Nowa Konfederacja)

Szymon Rębowski (editor Magazyn Kontakt)

Tomasz Sawczuk

Wojciech Płachetka

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ”I’ve seen death in this city, but nothing as sad as this’: how a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.’

Ghaith Abdul-Adad was born in 1975. He is an Iraqi foreign correspondent for the Guardian newspaper. He began working after the U.S. invasion of his country in 2003. Abdul-Ahad has also studied Architecture at the University of Baghdad.

He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2005), the James Cameron Memorial Trust Award (2007), the British Press Awards’ Foreign Reporter of the Year (2007), the Orwell Prize for Journalism (2014), and both the News & Documentary Emmy Awards for Best Story in a News Magazine as well as Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine (2017).

Abdul-Ahad is currently living in the Middle East.