Centre-left estimate · not a score

Gazeta Wyborcza

🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent · wyborcza.pl

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1989-05-08 — first issue of Gazeta Wyborcza, published as the press organ of the Citizens' Committee "Solidarity" ahead of Poland's 1989 semi-free parliamentary elections · source
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland (ul. Czerska 8/10, 00-732 Warszawa) · source
Funding	Wyborcza sp. z o.o., the company that now operates wyborcza.pl and, per its own terms of service, took over from Agora S.A. as service provider on 1 April 2024, is wholly owned (100% of shares) by Agora S.A., a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker AGO) since 1999. Agora S.A.'s own shareholder register (holders of >5%, as of registration for the 26 June 2023 AGM) shows no state or party holder: Agora-Holding sp. z o.o. holds 11.60% of capital but 35.36% of votes (via preference shares); other holders are pension funds (PTE PZU 17.68% capital/12.93% votes; Nationale-Nederlanden PTE 6.35%/4.64%) and Media Development Investment Fund, Inc., a US-based nonprofit media-investment fund (11.49% capital/8.41% votes).
Reach	Publisher states (About page, accessed 2026-09-04): more than 400 journalists in Poland and abroad, about 30 local newsroom editions, over 300,000 digital subscriptions, and about 4 million archived articles.
In its own words	Describes itself as: "In an "Independence" (Niezależność) section of its own About page, states that since it began it has worked so that no interest groups — 'from political parties to the church' — have influence over what it publishes."
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Actor named

Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice — in 1 article

Asserted cause

Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. — in 1 article

Asserted, not attributed

the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source — in 1 article

Asserted versus attributed

the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline — in 1 article

From 1246 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 2 misleading2 disputed16 unverified10 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Agora S.A.	company	100%	yes	equity	—	link
Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne PZU S.A. (OFE PZU Złota Jesień oraz DFE PZU)	company	17.68%	—	equity	—	link
Agora-Holding sp. z o.o.	company	11.60%	—	equity	—	link
Media Development Investment Fund, Inc.	company	11.49%	—	equity	—	link
Nationale-Nederlanden Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A.	company	6.35%	—	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Adam Michnik

Editor-in-chief (redaktor naczelny)

Essayist, historian and co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza; has held the editor-in-chief role at the paper since its founding in 1989.

Roman Imielski

Deputy editor-in-chief (zastępca redaktora naczelnego)

Journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza since 1995 (Katowice edition, then Warsaw newsroom from 2001); has held domestic-desk and foreign-desk leadership roles; deputy editor-in-chief since November 2019.

Bartosz T. Wieliński

Deputy editor-in-chief (zastępca redaktora naczelnego)

At Gazeta Wyborcza since 1998; Berlin correspondent 2005–2009; deputy editor-in-chief since 2019; writes primarily on Germany, past and present.

Journalists

Marek Beylin

Columnist / essayist · opinion · culture

Columnist and essayist at Gazeta Wyborcza since the 1990s; has headed its Culture desk, its former Saturday supplement, and its Opinion desk; writes on politics, culture and social change.

Witold Gadomski

Columnist · economy · business

Economics columnist at Gazeta Wyborcza; a founder of the Liberal Democratic Congress and a member of the Sejm (1991–1993); recipient of the Władysław Grabski Award for economic journalism.

Agnieszka Kublik

Reporter · politics

Political reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza since 1990; trained as a sociologist and linguist.

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