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Beata Biel

@beatabiel

Beata Biel is a journalist and TV producer based in Krakow, Poland. In 2008 she received a Grand Press Award for the best TV documentary of the year; she was nominated again the following year. She was a 2011 Transatlantic Media Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

In Poland, Pressures Plague Investigative Reporting

‘Most censorship is of an “inner” nature. Journalists self-censor because they are aware of their employer’s political position and thus do not submit stories in opposition to it.’

April 20, 2011