The author of the most extended publications in February was Dominika Wielowieyska from “Gazeta Wyborcza”, who described the abroad trips of Karol Nawrocki from 2017 to 2024. The monthly study “This is what we are talking about” is prepared by the Media Monitoring Institute (IMM) in cooperation with the ZET Radio. It is created as part of the task of the Andrzej Woyciechowski Radio Award.
Karol Nawrocki, as in January, is the hero of February's most extended publications. The summary opens 2 articles by Dominika Wielowieyska: “IPN Travel, that is, how Karol Nawrocki visited a part of the planet for public money” and “Nawrocks in Hawaii. The PiS candidate besides as the head of the planet War II Museum had a sharp tour of the world." The writer “Gazeta Wyborcza” details the abroad travel president of the IPN, and previously the manager of the planet War II Museum. According to her calculations, they cost the payer nearly PLN 800 1000 in 2017-2024. The publications of Wielowieyska were called 207 times, which translated into a scope of 18 million possible contacts with the transmission.
Second place besides “Gazeta Wyborcza” and 3rd place – Virtual Poland
The second place included publications by Wojciech Czuchnowski and Krzysztof Katka on the “a flat affair” with the participation of Karol Nawrocki, which were at the highest level of the podium of the January study “This is what we talk about”. 2 articles “Karol Nawrocka lived in the Second War Museum Suite for six months. He did not pay a penny" and "Apartment of presidential importance. What else does Karol Nawrocki hide?" The media was besides curious in the following month, as expressed by 80 citations with a full scope of 8.5 million contacts.
The 3rd place came to Michał Janczur from Virtual Poland. The information contained in his series of reports entitled ‘Szarlatan’ was cited in another media 45 times, which translated into coverage estimated by IMM to be 7.2 million. Janczura has screened the activities of pseudo-medical experts, active in social media and deceiving people by telling them, among others, that cancer can be cured by dietary supplements or offering another “wonderful” therapies. The consequence of his reporting was the first detentions among people conducting specified activities.
The 4th place in February was awarded to Piotr Świerczków from TVN24 for the study "Rabota in Poland" (the "Black on White" programme), in which he presented how Russian services recruit "agents" to carry out diversion and disinformation actions in Poland. The material generated 98 vocations, which gave a scope estimated at 5 million contacts with the transmission. This was mostly due to the right-wing media, which were critical of the information contained therein.
Another publication by Wojciech Czuchnowski from “Gazeta Wyborcza” entitled “How Błaszczak revealed secret military plans of Poland. Cenckiewicz played a major function in this.” According to the journalist's findings, the operation of revealing secret military plans by Mariusz Błaszczak was to be the thought of Sławomir Cenckiewicz, who was at the time the head of the Military Historical Bureau. Czuchnowski cites the content of the motion to waive parliamentary immunity to the erstwhile head of the MON, in which he described in item how the law was to be broken to make everything look legal, as well as how closely the politicians of the ruling party, historians and creators of the TVP series were cooperating.
Methodology
The IMM and ZET Radio study “This Talks About” was developed on the basis of the monitoring of content from the most reputable media from the press, radio, tv and online portals. In the calculation of coverage, no account was taken of portals of the nature of aggregators of content and multiplicity of messages, as well as the own sources of a given media group. Selected information and publicist species are analysed, which are characterised by advanced citation of content, including articles and investigations, including reporting. The survey does not include interviews and public talks, polls, rankings, as well as current news. The survey includes over 1,600 newspapers and magazines, selected programs in tv stations (Polsat, Polsat News, Polsat News 2, TVN Turbo, TVN, TVN24, TVN24BiS, TVP Info, TVP1 and TVP2) and radio stations (Muzo.fm, PR1, PR3, PR4, Radio Maryja, Radio ZET, RDC, RMF FM, TOK FM) and applicable net portals. The criterion determining the position in the TOP5 ranking was adopted the scope of the article in publications in another media. The aim of the task is to indicate the most popular publications the media has most preferred in a given month. The focus of the ranking was on the scope* of the subject after it was spread to another media. For details on media monitoring, see www.imm.com.pl.
*The scope informs about the number of possible contacts with the media. The indicator is based on the viewership and listenability of radio-television programs, press readership, average number of online material views, taking into account the vulnerability origin of own names in content.
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