Władysław Masłowski

Who was Władysław Masłowski?

Wladyslaw Maslowski was a Polish journalist and a press researcher. He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the underground weekly, Mala Polska, which was instrumental in helping to organize the Solidarity movement in southern Poland.

Although he was born in Katowice where his father Stanislaw worked as the Katowice Bank Director, he spent most of his life in Krakow. Once the Nazis and the Soviets invaded Poland in September 1939, and Stanislaw Maslowski was murdered by Soviet NKVD in Katyn, Wladyslaw’s family moved back to Krakow to join other family members who were running a pharmacy store, still in existence today, at 4 Mikolajska Street.

A graduate of the Jagiellonian University Law School in Krakow, Poland, Maslowski began his career as a journalist for the daily newspaper Echo Krakowa, and later as a researcher and a head of the Analysis of the Press Content Department at the Press Research Center in Krakow. Also a member of the editorial college for Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, the oldest Polish scholarly journal devoted to media and communication research, he was the author of over 40 peer-reviewed articles in this field. He was co-founder and chairman of the Press Club at the Polish Journalists Association.