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Dziennikarstwo on kapuscinski.infohttps://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/dziennikarstwo/Recent content in Dziennikarstwo on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000Kapuściński Quotes on Truth and Journalismhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/quotes/on-truth-and-journalism/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/quotes/on-truth-and-journalism/<blockquote> <p><strong>Translation note:</strong> Unless a published English translator is named, the wording on this page is an editorial translation from Polish and may differ from the <a href="https://kapuscinski.info/en/foreign-editions/">authorised English-language edition</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>A selection of <strong>Ryszard Kapuściński’s quotes on truth and journalism</strong> — on the ethics of the reporter, empathy, and the power and responsibility of words. Thoughts from his books and interviews.</p> <p>📖 <strong>See also:</strong> <a href="https://kapuscinski.info/en/quotes/">all quotes by Kapuściński</a> · <a href="https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/a-portrait-of-the-reporter/a-portrait-of-the-reporter-summary-and-analysis/">A Portrait of the Reporter — analysis</a></p>An Interview by Bill Bufordhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/interviews/an-interview-by-bill-buford/Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/interviews/an-interview-by-bill-buford/<p>Author: Bill Buford source: Granta magazine date: 1987-01-01 ——————————————————————–</p> <p><strong>Bill Buford: Your first book to be published in English was The Emperor, and that appeared only four years ago. But you had been writing for nearly thirty years before your two translators, an American and a Pole, took it upon themselves to translate your book and submit it to an American publisher. What do you feel we should know about those years before the writing of The Emperor?</strong></p>Writing About Sufferinghttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/interviews/writing-about-stuffering/Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/interviews/writing-about-stuffering/<h2 id="an-interview-with-ryszard-kapuscinski-writing-about-suffering">An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing About Suffering</h2> <p>Polish-born journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski worked as an African correspondent for various Polish periodicals and press agencies from 1958 to 1980. In his book <a href="https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/imperium/">Imperium</a> (Granta Books, 1994), he turns a journalist’s eye onto the Russian state, and the effects of authoritarianism on everyday Russian life. Kapuscinski delivered his November, 1997 Copernicus lecture: “The Russian Puzzle: Why I Wrote <a href="https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/imperium/">Imperium</a>” at the Center for Russian and East European Studies. During his visit, he spoke with David Cohen (International Institute); John Woodford (Executive Editor of Michigan Today); and Thomas Wolfe (Communications). The following is an excerpted transcript of their conversation.</p>Fact, Fiction and Kapuscinskihttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/fact-fiction-and-kapuscinski-mackey-nyt/Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/fact-fiction-and-kapuscinski-mackey-nyt/<p>Author: Robert Mackey<br> Source: The New York Times — The Lede Blog, March 8, 2010<br> Link: <a href="https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/fact-fiction-and-kapuscinski/">https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/fact-fiction-and-kapuscinski/</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available at the NYT (a subscription may be required).</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>An article published on The Lede, the New York Times blog devoted to media analysis and running events, immediately after the Polish publication of Artur Domoslawski’s <em>Kapuscinski Non-Fiction</em> in March 2010.</p>A Personal Tribute A unique worldview for the common manhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/a-personal-tribute-a-unique-worldview-for-the-common-man/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/a-personal-tribute-a-unique-worldview-for-the-common-man/<p><strong>Author:Michael Werbowski,</strong></p> <p><strong>Source:Ohmy News</strong></p> <p>A few days ago, a citizen reporter wrote about the reporter and great satirist Art Buchwald who died recently. I thought it appropriate to follow up with a personal tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski, a worldly gentleman and great reporter who died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was a man whose writings gave me a passion for travel, world affairs and the thrill of “being there” where events happen.</p>I Had to Experience Everything for Myselfhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/i-had-to-experience-everything-for-myself/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/i-had-to-experience-everything-for-myself/<p>Remembering Ryszard Kapuscinski, who left journalism to carve out a special place in the literary landscape.</p> <p>In 1966 at the height of the Nigerian civil war, an unassuming-looking Polish journalist by the name of Ryszard Kapuscinski set out on a seemingly insane journey. He left the relative safety of Lagos and drove straight into the region of the fiercest fighting, on a road where any traveler could be summarily executed by trigger-happy, machete-wielding guards at any number of improvised roadblocks set up by roaming gangs of both warring parties. “I was driving along a road where they say no white man can come back alive,” Kapuscinski wrote later in his book “The Soccer War.” “I was driving to see if a white man could, because I had to experience everything for myself.”</p>It Was a Small Dog, a Japanese Breedhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/it-was-a-small-dog-a-japanese-breed/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/it-was-a-small-dog-a-japanese-breed/<p>In those unbelievable times ordinary Poles got up at dawn to stand in line in front of a bookstore, to hunt down their dream book. They followed world politics avidly, and knew more about the Third World than the British and French combined.</p> <p>You could say that in communist Poland, people hunted for books because everything was in short supply, while rooting for Patrice Lumumba, concern for the fate of Allende or following the stormy life of Che Guevara was a substitute for the complete lack of political attractions in a country ruled by communists.</p>Kapuscinski Reportage Rememberedhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/kapuscinski-reportage-remembered/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/kapuscinski-reportage-remembered/<p>Ryszard Kapuscinski’s chief metier was Africa and Latin America in the throes of violent revolution. As a roving foreign correspondent for Poland’s state press agency for more than two decades, he likely witnessed more tumult than any of his peers. But Kapuscinski, who died Tuesday at age 74, was much more than a man who took great risks to get the best insights - heading into the bush when colleagues were fleeing on the last planes out.</p>Kapuscinski: A disptach from the late master of reportagehttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/kapuscinski-a-disptach-from-the-late-master-of-reportage/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/kapuscinski-a-disptach-from-the-late-master-of-reportage/<p>No reporter ever brought the world’s trouble spots to life with the vividness of the great Ryszard Kapuscinski. To mark his death this week, Ian Jack recalls his late friend’s ‘passionate curiosity’, and we publish the opening chapter of one of the Polish writer’s most acclaimed works, ‘The Soccer War’</p> <p>A few years ago a party to celebrate the publication of Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book on Africa was held, properly enough, in the Polish Club in South Kensington. A few of us then walked to dinner with him at a restaurant in Kensington High Street; no more than a luxurious toddle, but someone complained that a taxi would have been a better idea, that it was really quite far. Obviously, said Kapuscinski of the complainant, he never went on a route march with the Polish army in Stalinist times.</p>Master Reporter Signs Offhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/master-reporter-signs-off/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/master-reporter-signs-off/<p>Ryszard Kapuściński, one of the best known Polish journalists and writers, died in Warsaw after a long illness Jan. 23. He was active until the last days of his life, meeting his readers and planning work on new books. He would have been 75 on March 4.</p> <p>Kapuściński made his first trip as a reporter to China in 1956, sent by the Warsaw-based newspaper Sztandar Młodych. Later, he made trips to Africa, South America and Asia, which resulted in a number of highly regarded works. His books are read across the world and Kapuściński is considered one of the most important literary witnesses of his times.</p>On Kapuscinski gonzo orientalismhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/on-kapuscinski-gonzo-orientalism/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/on-kapuscinski-gonzo-orientalism/<p>“The European mind is willing to acknowledge its limitations, accept its limitations. It is a sceptical mind. The spirit of criticism does not exist in other cultures. They are proud, believing that what they have is perfect.” – Ryszard Kapuscinski</p> <p>“The greatest mind to bear upon Africa since Conrad.” – The Evening Standard on Ryszard Kapuscinski</p> <p>I have tried, just once in my life, to be an Angry Black Man. I planned a picket in New York City against a man I love to hate – Ryszard Kapuscinski. He was going to speak at a conference organised by American PEN. Nobody seemed to want to join me. There were better things to do in New York, like drinking – I do not lie – a hibiscus juice and chilli margarita. So I got drunk.</p>Ryszard Kapuscinski Master of literary reportagehttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/ryszard-kapuscinski-master-of-literary-reportage/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/ryszard-kapuscinski-master-of-literary-reportage/<p>Ryszard Kapuscinski, journalist: born Pinsk, Poland 4 March 1932; married 1952 Alicja Mielczarek (one daughter); died Warsaw 23 January 2007.</p> <p>The Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was the 20th century’s most telling spokesman for the millions of ordinary people who are trapped in the vagaries of authoritarian regimes.</p> <p>He could have done it anywhere, but fate and the limited budgets of his Polish employers took him, chiefly, to Africa. There, he told the story of Haile Selassie through the anecdotes of a man at the palace gates whose job was to wipe visitors’ shoes after meetings with the Ethiopian emperor and his incontinent dog, Lulu. In Tanzania, political upheaval was brought into perspective by a report from a village where all that mattered to the peasants was the long wait for rain.</p>Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Worlds Reporterhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/ryszard-kapuscinski-a-worlds-reporter/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/ryszard-kapuscinski-a-worlds-reporter/<p>“Why am I a writer? Why have I risked my life so many times, come so close to dying? Is it to report the weirdness? To earn my salary? Mine is not a vocation, it’s a mission. I wouldn’t subject myself to these dangers if I didn’t feel that there was something overwhelmingly important–about history, about ourselves–that I felt compelled to get across. This is more than journalism.”</p> <p>--Ryszard Kapuscinski interview by Bill Bufford (“Granta Magazine”).</p>The Illuminated Letters Of a Polish Journalisthttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/the-illuminated-letters-of-a-polish-journalist/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/the-illuminated-letters-of-a-polish-journalist/<p>Maybe there’s something about those brutal winters on the high northern plains of Eastern Europe, stuck defenseless between Berlin and Moscow, the peasant huts and concrete apartments smelling of dank clothes, lost hope and boiled cabbage.</p> <p>Maybe there’s something that, every so often, kicks a young writer in the gut, and produces great wanderlust or literary genius or, in the case of Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski and his literary predecessor Joseph Conrad, both.</p>Fellow Travelershttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/fellow-travelers-morrison-time/Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/fellow-travelers-morrison-time/<p>Author: Donald Morrison<br> Source: Time Magazine, June 7, 2007</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available in the Time Magazine archive.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>An article published five months after Kapuscinski’s death, placing him within the broader tradition of travelling journalists who shaped how Western societies understood the Third World in the twentieth century.</p> <p>Morrison — for many years Time’s culture editor — sets Kapuscinski alongside figures such as Tiziano Terzani and Martha Gellhorn as a representative of a vanishing species: the journalist who spends years coming to know one place or one subject rather than hopping between events.</p>Kapuściński, More Magical than Realhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/kapuscinski-more-magical-than-real-new-statesman/Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/kapuscinski-more-magical-than-real-new-statesman/<p>Author: Michela Wrong, John Pilger<br> Source: New Statesman, February 12, 2007<br> Link: <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/02/kapuscinski-journalism-africa">https://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/02/kapuscinski-journalism-africa</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available at the New Statesman.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>An article published three weeks after Kapuscinski’s death by the New Statesman — among the first interventions by experienced Western correspondents in the argument over his legacy.</p> <p>Michela Wrong — the British journalist and author of reportage from Congo, Kenya and Rwanda — puts the question that had been avoided for years: was the enthusiasm for Kapuscinski in Western newsrooms based partly on readers’ ignorance of Africa? Where the writing was beautiful, the details went unchecked. Wrong knows the continent too well to miss the simplifications.</p>Ryszard Kapuściński: Defending his literary licensehttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/defending-literary-license-orourke-slate/Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/defending-literary-license-orourke-slate/<p>Author: Meghan O’Rourke<br> Source: Slate Magazine, January 30, 2007<br> Link: <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2007/01/ryszard-kapuscinski-defending-his-literary-license.html">https://slate.com/culture/2007/01/ryszard-kapuscinski-defending-his-literary-license.html</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available free of charge at Slate.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>A reply to Jack Shafer’s <em>The Lies of Ryszard Kapuscinski</em>, published five days later by the same magazine. O’Rourke — a literary critic and poet — does not defend Kapuscinski at any cost, but she questions whether the standards of hard news reportage are the right ones to apply to his work.</p>A Poet Among Journalistshttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/a-poet-among-journalists/Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/a-poet-among-journalists/<p>source: World Press Review archive source: info-poland.buffalo.edu</p> <hr> <p>A Poet Among Journalists</p> <p>“More than anything, one is struck by the light,” writes Ryszard Kapuscinski in The Shadow of the Sun, his new book on Africa. “Brightness everywhere…We discard overcoats, peel off sweaters. It’s the first gesture of initiation we, the people of the North, perform upon arrival in Africa.”</p> <p>Kapuscinski, who was born in Poland in 1932, has spent his career chronicling political shifts in the Third World. He began as a foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, which could afford to send only one reporter to each continent. “That was an advantage,” he recalled in an interview at London’s Institute for Contemporary Art. “It took me from place to place, from revolution to revolution.”</p>Journalism in Open and Closed Societieshttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/interviews/journalism-in-open-and-closed-societies/Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/interviews/journalism-in-open-and-closed-societies/<p>source: Michigan Today, Spring 1998 archive source: info-poland.buffalo.edu</p> <hr> <p>Spring 1998 Michigan Today—A Polish Perspective</p> <p>. . . Spring 1998</p> <p>HIS NATION’S SUFFERING HAS HONED A JOURNALIST’S</p> <p>INSIGHTS INTO STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM</p> <p>A</p> <p>Ryszard Kapuscinski grew up maneuvering under the occupation of both the Hitlerian and Stalinist variants of despotism, an experience that helped the Polish journalist win a reputation as the world’s most insightful, poetic and dogged chronicler of political upheaval. Born in Pinsk, Poland, a city now in Belarus, in 1932, the year when Hitler came to power and Stalin launched his most brutal purges, Kapuscinski (pronounced kapus-CHINTZ-kee) has spent 40 years of his life–including a decade living in Africa–covering struggles against dictatorships and colonial regimes. One reason for his unusually long exposure to discord was that the Polish Press Agency often lacked funds to extricate him from dangerous crises.</p>Obituary: Ryszard Kapuścińskihttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/obituary-ryszard-kapuscinski-brittain-guardian/Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/obituary-ryszard-kapuscinski-brittain-guardian/<p>Author: Victoria Brittain<br> Source: The Guardian, January 25, 2007<br> Link: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/25/guardianobituaries.mainsection">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/25/guardianobituaries.mainsection</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available free of charge at The Guardian.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>An obituary by Victoria Brittain — for many years The Guardian’s correspondent in Africa and Asia, and the author of books on Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Brittain was writing about Africa in much the same years as Kapuscinski, which gives her judgement unusual weight: she is not reviewing him from outside, but from the position of a witness to the same events.</p>The Lies of Ryszard Kapuścińskihttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/the-lies-of-ryszard-kapuscinski-shafer-slate/Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/the-lies-of-ryszard-kapuscinski-shafer-slate/<p>Author: Jack Shafer<br> Source: Slate Magazine, January 25, 2007<br> Link: <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/01/the-lies-of-ryszard-kapuscinski.html">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/01/the-lies-of-ryszard-kapuscinski.html</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available free of charge at Slate.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>One of the most contested pieces ever written about Kapuscinski — published in Slate literally the day after his death, which by itself provoked sharp reactions among journalists. Shafer, a well-known media critic, states the charge outright: Kapuscinski was a liar.</p>Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish Writer of Shimmering Allegories and News, Dies at 74https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/ryszard-kapuscinski-polish-writer-dies-kaufman-nyt/Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/ryszard-kapuscinski-polish-writer-dies-kaufman-nyt/<p>Author: Michael T. Kaufman<br> Source: The New York Times, January 24, 2007<br> Link: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/books/24kap.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/books/24kap.html</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available at The New York Times (a subscription may be required).</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>The obituary of Ryszard Kapuscinski published by The New York Times on the day of the writer’s death, 23 January 2007. Michael T. Kaufman — himself a long-serving NYT foreign correspondent who knew Kapuscinski personally — draws a full portrait for an English-speaking readership.</p>In the Pit of Historyhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/in-the-pit-of-history-ascherson-nyrb/Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/in-the-pit-of-history-ascherson-nyrb/<p>Author: Neal Ascherson<br> Source: The New York Review of Books, June 21, 2001<br> Link: <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/06/21/in-the-pit-of-history/">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/06/21/in-the-pit-of-history/</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available at The New York Review of Books (a subscription may be required).</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>A long review of the English edition of <em>The Shadow of the Sun</em> by Neal Ascherson — the British commentator, expert on Central Europe and historian of Poland. Ascherson sets Kapuscinski’s book against Ann Jones’s <em>Looking for Lovedu</em>, using the pair to show two very different ways of writing about Africa.</p>Misguided Tourhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/misguided-tour-hemon-village-voice/Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/misguided-tour-hemon-village-voice/<p>Author: Aleksandar Hemon<br> Source: The Village Voice, April 24, 2001</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available in the Internet Archive (Village Voice).</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>A review by the Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon, published on the occasion of the English edition of <em>The Shadow of the Sun</em>. Hemon — himself a writer in two languages, intimately familiar with the experience of being the foreigner — raises objections that would become the groundwork of the later postcolonial debate.</p>Magic Journalismhttps://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/magic-journalism-hochschild-nyrb/Thu, 03 Nov 1994 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/magic-journalism-hochschild-nyrb/<p>Author: Adam Hochschild<br> Source: The New York Review of Books, November 3, 1994<br> Link: <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/11/03/magic-journalism/">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/11/03/magic-journalism/</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editorial summary by kapuscinski.info.</strong> The text below is a summary based on the original article. The full article is available at The New York Review of Books (a subscription may be required).</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>Hochschild’s essay — by an outstanding non-fiction author in his own right — was a review of <em>Imperium</em> and became one of the most important English-language accounts of Kapuscinski’s method.</p>