Karol Jakubowicz

Jakubowicz was a leading expert on European media and held many prominent positions.

He held a Ph.D. degree in Sociology of Mass Communications, University of Warsaw, Poland. He has worked as a journalist and executive in the Polish press, radio and television for many years. He has been Vice-President, Polish Radio and Television; Chairman, Supervisory Board, Polish Television; and Head of Strategic Planning and Development at Polish Television. He was Director of the Strategy and Analysis Department of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland, the broadcasting regulatory authority (2004-2006).

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Karol Jakubowicz until 2008 was Director of the Strategy and Analysis Department at the National Broadcasting Council of Poland, the broadcasting regulatory authority.

He also worked as a journalist and executive in the Polish press, radio and television for many years.

Mr Jakubowicz has been active in the Council of Europe, where held, among other positions, that of Chairman of the Steering Committee on the Media and New Communication Services.

He led committees on media issues at the Council of Europe and UNESCO, and served as Director of the Polish Television.

Jakubowicz was also an adviser on broadcast media laws to governments, NGOs and international organizations, including the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Since 02.04.2008. Dr. Karol Jakubowicz was Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, and Chairman of the Steering Committee on the Media and New Communication Services at the Council of Europe.

He worked in academia at the University of Warsaw, as visiting professor at the University of Dortmund, and at the Amsterdam School of Communication.

 He served as an expert on the media in Poland, as well as for the European Union, European Broadcasting Union, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

He widely contributed to the development of democratic media regulation in Poland, and - with his valued recommendations and expertise - in several other countries in Central and East Europe. His scholarly and other publications on media and communication were published in Poland and internationally.

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"..He was a warm, attentive, intellectual man who inspired everyone around him. He was exceptionally well informed on many issues - on media transformations and the need for policies, new technologies and broadcasting changes. He was reputed for his honesty and influence in following his beliefs.."

ECREA President Claudia Alvares  

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