Marek Czyż (; born 25 March 1968) is a Polish journalist and news presenter.

Biography

Marek Czyż was born on 25 March 1968 in

Cieszyn Cieszyn ( , ; ; ) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitants ( and lies opposite Český Těšín in the Czech Repu ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. He has graduated from the

University of Silesia The University of Silesia in Katowice () is an autonomous state-run university in Katowice, Silesia Province, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergraduate, masters, and PhD degree programs, ...

Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...

. He started his media career in the mid-1990s at Katowice-based TOP Radio. Before that, he spent several years co-hosting the student programme. From 1996 to 2008, he worked in

Telewizja Polska Telewizja Polska S.A. (; TVP), also known in English as Polish Television, is a Public broadcasting, public service broadcaster in Poland, founded in 1952. It is the oldest and largest Polish television network. After 2015, when the right-wing po ...

(TVP), where he worked, among others, on programmes '' Monitor Wiadomości'' and '' Gość Jedynki'' in

TVP1 TVP1 (TVP Jeden, ''Telewizja Polska 1'', ''Program Pierwszy Telewizji Polskiej'', ''"Jedynka"'') is the main public television channel of Telewizja Polska, TVP (Telewizja Polska S.A.), Poland's national television broadcaster. It was the first Po ...

, various journalistic programmes in

TVP3 TVP3 (formerly TVP Regionalna, known also as Regionalna Trójka or Program 3 Telewizji Polskiej) is a Polish TV channel, run by the public broadcaster, TVP and dedicated to the country's regions. It has regional branches in most of the major Po ...

, '' Aktualności'' in

TVP3 Katowice TVP3 Katowice a.k.a. TV Katowice also Television Katowice is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Silesian Voivodeship with particular dedication to the Metropolis GZM and Katowice ...

, and various news programmes dedicated to the accession of Poland to the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...

in 2004. He also worked as a foreign correspondent in the Telewizyjna Agencja Informacyjna (''Television Information Agency''). From 2009 to 2011 he worked in TVS, where he hosted ''Silesia Informacje'', ''Kiosk'', and ''Gość TVS''. From 30 September 2009 to 2011 he was also the director of TVS. In 2011, he began working in

TVP Info TVP Info is a Polish free-to-air television news channel, run by the public state broadcaster TVP. It is focused on newscasts, mainly broadcasting nationwide news bulletins. Until 20 December 2023, its main offices were located in the building ...

. Until 2016 he co-hosted '' Poranek Info'' and ''Forum''. From 18 May 2014 to 24 July 2016 and again since 3 March 2024, he hosted ''Bez retuszu''. On 25 April 2016, he returned to working in TVP3 Katowice, where he hosted ''Czyżby?'' and ''Aktualności''. He left Telewizja Polska in August 2016. In 2016 he began working in

Nowa TV Nowa TV is a Polish television channel, launched on November 9, 2016. On December 4, 2017, Polsat announced that it had bought 34 percent shares of TV Spektrum, which is the broadcaster of Fokus TV and Nowa TV. Programming Nowa TV is a general ...

, where from 9 November 2016 to 30 November 2017, he co-hosted news programme '' 24 godziny online.pl''. From 2016 to October 2017 he also hosted ''Tu i teraz'', and ''Proste pytanie''. In 2019 he hosted programme ''Czyż nie…'' in Nowa TV, and co-hosted radio audition ''Rozmowa dnia'' in

Superstacja Wydarzenia 24 is a Polish all-news format Television in Poland, TV channel, launched on 2 October 2006 as Superstacja. Prior to the Polsat takeover in 2018, STER, a company affiliated with Polsat's owner Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, was the channel's own ...

. From 2019 to 2020 he was the

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

of Silesia24.pl news web portal. In 2020, he joined to the editor team of the internet radio station Halo.Radio, where he hosted his own programmes. In 2020 he also founded internet news portal CzyzTak.pl. From January 2020 to July 2023 he was the information director of

Radio Zet Radio Zet () is a Polish commercial radio station launched in 1990, as the second privately owned radio in Poland. Since 2023, its majority shareholder has been Agora (company), Agora SA. History Radio Zet was established in Warsaw, and air ...

. On 20 December 2023, he made an announcement about the management changes in TVP, which was emitted in place of the regular news programme ''

Wiadomości ''Wiadomości'' (, ) is a Polish daily television news program that was produced by public-service broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) and was broadcast on TVP1 from 18 November 1989 until 19 December 2023. The main edition was broadcast dail ...

'' on TVP1. The next day, he hosted the first episode of the new news programme '' 19.30'', which replaced ''Wiadomości''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Czyz, Marek 1968 births Living people University of Silesia in Katowice alumni Polish television journalists Polish newspaper editors People from Cieszyn Polish radio journalists Polish reporters and correspondents Foreign correspondents Polish television presenters 20th-century Polish journalists 21st-century Polish journalists