It's like the BBC, but from Poland | the POLSKI blog

27 May, 2010

It’s like the BBC, but from Poland

Posted by: Michał In: links|p for press

I’ve recently introduced you to a new Polish cultural site aimed at the English-speaking world, and here we have another one.

This time it’s all about the latest news.

thenews.pl is run by Poland’s equivalent of the BBC World Service, Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy. It’s published entirely in English and is mainly focused on Poland or Poland-related issues.

You can also listen to English-language bulletins there and the site also offers Polish press reviews translated into English.

If you are really into all things Polish, you’ll find their micro-site on the upcoming presidential election particularly useful.

I found the new site particularly useful during the recent floods. While the BBC and most British media outlets completely ignored the disaster (American and Middle Eastern news outlets seemed to be more interested), thenews.pl had regular updates on the situation.

And just out of curiosity: HOW MANY of you are actually interested in daily news about Poland in English and is the existence of such service justified? I’d love to read what you have to say.

Related posts:

Tags: news, poland, thenews.pl

6 Responses to "It’s like the BBC, but from Poland"

1 | Alex

May 27th, 2010 at 9:10 am

Thanks for writing about this!

My wife is Polish and I hear a lot about Polish news, so it’s good to be able to follow these in English – at least until my Polish gets better

May 28th, 2010 at 9:09 am

Fantastic! My boyfriend is always casting news over his shoulder from onet.pl – he reads it everyday. I’ve had a bash but its just too advanced for me yet (am in my first year of learning!)

So, thank-you for this!

R

3 | Neil

May 28th, 2010 at 6:19 pm

I’ve been listening to thenews.pl for sometime now as a Podcast which they make freely available, they used to do many of them but now they seem to just aggregate everything together so you get a few new items to listen to each day.

Radio Wroclove (an English language radio station in Wroclaw – http://www.radiowroclove.pl) also do Podcasts although their news out put is limited and mostly focused on Wroclaw which is fine for me as I love the city.

May 30th, 2010 at 12:14 pm

I already have TheNews.pl as my browser home page and I endorse your recommendation. Its particulalry good at reflecting current Polish political obsessions and perspective, which is important to me. However, the bias is not too extreme and is primarily included in the headlines: the text often corrects the ‘untruths’ given by the headline writer.

June 11th, 2010 at 9:07 pm

The News.pl was really interesting to read and get an overview of what is happening in Poland. However, I was appalled at the crass comments left by ‘bloggers’ in particular the article on immigration. It really lowered the tone of an otherwise excellent site. Luckily your blog doesn’t have any of these issues!

June 22nd, 2010 at 8:01 pm

We have actually been looking for similar websites ever since our daughter found out she would be part of a US-Poland Exchange program. She is actually in Lodz right now, and will be heading to Warsaw and then Krakow. We have developed a wonderful friendship with her host family and look forward to visiting Poland ourselves someday. It is nice to get information about Poland.

She is blogging about her experience if you are interested (www.tafulton.com)

Comment Form

Categories

Search

Latest Posts
Latest Comments
Tags

Czarny kapturek: The UK gains a lot, when we are able to have Polish people. It also means that people like me are able to live and work with no bother in Germany and
Czarny kapturek: I find that outside of restaurants and bars I always have to pay for toilets. Still, 50 groszy or 1.5 złoty isn't much. At least the toilets are
Czarny kapturek: I don't get how "ław" becomes "love", when in English it would be written "wav". Not that "wav" offers itself well to people trying to market a ci
Michał: Glad you like it, welcome!
Missy: I had been to Poland as a masters student in Warsaw ( 2006-2008), travelled all over Poland. I like it there, i am glad i found your blog. :) niec

Recent Flickr pics tagged Poland

Peacock Close-Up

Małgorzata

_SDI4197

_SDI4210

Domy Towarowe Alfa

Wielkanocne Jajo

Wielkanocne Jajo

Wielkanocne Jajo

About

The POLSKI blog is written by Michał, a Polish journalist, writer, one-time language teacher and linguist, living and working in London.

Follow @thepolskiblog

Subscribe to the RSS feed