In June 2018, the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, visited Poland as part of IPI’s Ontheline project, which aims to identify best newsroom practices for preventing and better responding to online harassment of journalists.
Over the course of five days, the IPI delegation met with editors-in-chief, managing editors, web and social media editors, and staff and freelance journalists to better understand online harassment and how it is dealt with in Poland. IPI visited the newsrooms of the largest national daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza; weekly news magazines Polityka and Do Rzeczy; investigative journalism and fact-checking platform OKO.press; and smaller publications Krytyka Polityczna and Res Publica. In addition, IPI organized two focus groups: one for female journalists and one for freelancers with a representative of the Journalists’ Association (Towarzystwo Dziennikarskie).