Tomasz Piątek: what happens to press freedom in Eastern Europe influences the West
This year’s winner of the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig’s Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media is Polish journalist Tomasz Piątek. At the press conference on 8 October 2018, he sketched a dark portrait of press freedom in his home country. But he ended with a more hopeful message.
Polish journalist Tomasz Piątek at the press conference in Leipzig, Germany (Photo: ECPMF)
On Monday evening, for the eighteenth time, the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig awarded its Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media. This year, unlike previous years, there's only one winner: Polish journalist and…