Andrzej Morozowski

Andrzej Morozowski was born on June 13, 1957, in Warsaw, into a Polish Jewish family. His father, born Mordechaj Mozes and later known as Mieczysław Morozowski, had worked as a miner and in the archive of the Ministry of Public Security. After the March 1968 antisemitic campaign, when many Polish Jews emigrated, his parents chose to remain in Poland. He was raised without religion and later spoke publicly about his family history, notably in the 2013 Newsweek Polska interview "My father Mordechaj Mozes" with Marcin Meller.

Morozowski attended the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski XVII High School in Warsaw, graduating in 1976. He then studied theatre at the Faculty of Theatre Studies of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, completing his degree in 1981. Among his school era acquaintances was the future politician Ryszard Kalisz, who later said they had known each other since the 1970s.

After graduating he worked at the biweekly "Hejnał Mariacki". In the June 1989 elections he was a polling observer for the Solidarity side, and afterwards he worked for the Citizens' Parliamentary Club in the Sejm.

In 1990 he co-founded Radio Zet (originally Radio Gazeta), where he worked until 2000 as a reporter and parliamentary correspondent. He was also a Sejm reporter for TVP's "Teleexpress", hosted "Krótkie spięcie" and presented "Ring" and "Polityczne Graffiti" on Polsat.

In 2001 he joined TVN24 at its launch, first as a political reporter in the Sejm, then as host or co-host of "Skaner polityczny", "Bohater tygodnia", "Studio 24", "Kuluary", "Rozmowa bardzo polityczna" and "Prześwietlenie". From 2005 to 2010 he co-hosted "Teraz my!" with Tomasz Sekielski on TVN, sometimes followed by "Teraz my Dogrywka". From 2010 until his death he hosted "Tak jest", TVN24's flagship afternoon current affairs programme. He had an earlier break from the show in spring 2024 and a longer absence for cancer treatment from late 2025 to March 2026.

The best known moment of "Teraz my!" came on September 26, 2006, when Morozowski and Sekielski broadcast recordings made with a hidden camera, in cooperation with Samoobrona MP Renata Beger, of her conversations with politicians of the governing Law and Justice party who were seeking her support. The "taśmy prawdy" (tapes of truth) triggered the tape scandal and one of the most serious government crises of that period, and earned the pair the Grand Press Journalist of the Year award.

Morozowski was married to Agata Nowakowska, an economics journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza who later became press spokesperson for the Rossmann drugstore chain in Poland. Ryszard Kalisz recalled that the couple's acquaintance began during Aleksander Kwaśniewski's presidential campaign. They had one son, Jan. Morozowski said one of the hardest periods of their life came after Jan's birth, when the baby was seriously ill and spent many months at the Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. He guarded his private life closely despite decades on screen.

Morozowski saw journalism as reliable reporting of facts and a public mission. In a 2021 essay for TVN24's 20th anniversary he wrote that journalism had once rested on the conviction that objective, fact based information is one of the pillars of democracy, and that presenting both sides of a dispute, choosing diverse guests and separating news from commentary was "the journalistic ABC". He blamed politicians for much of the damage to the media, saying they respect free speech only when it concerns their opponents and understand media pluralism as having "their own" outlets. His wife wrote that his attitude toward interviewees showed the strong influence of the ethos of the 1980s opposition.

Colleagues called him one of the founders of TVN24 and a model for parliamentary reporting. TVN24 editor in chief Michał Samul described him as a master and mentor of journalism, and deputy editor Brygida Grysiak said: "It is not true that there are no irreplaceable people. There are, and Andrzej Morozowski is certainly one of them." Speaker of the Sejm Włodzimierz Czarzasty called him a symbol of the best of Polish journalism. His programme "Tak jest" continues under Anna Jędrzejowska, who said the host's chair would always be his place.

Wiktor 2005 for most valued journalist (with Tomasz Sekielski and Andrzej Turski). Andrzej Woyciechowski Prize 2006 (with Sekielski), for a "Teraz my!" episode about General Wojciech Jaruzelski receiving the Siberian Exiles' Cross. Grand Press Journalist of the Year 2006 (with Sekielski). Telekamery 2007 and 2008 in the current affairs category (with Sekielski). MediaTor 2007 in the NawigaTOR category (with Sekielski).

Books: "Teraz My prześwietlamy" (co-author, 2009); "Piękna dwudziestoletnia: 12 rozmów o wolnej Polsce" (co-author, 2009); "Koniec PiS-u: z Michałem Kamińskim rozmawia Andrzej Morozowski" (2012), a book length interview with Michał Kamiński. On screen he made a guest appearance in an episode of the TVN sitcom "Niania" (2007) and appeared in the film "Sztos 2" (2012). In 2021 he answered viewers' questions about his career in a TVN24 session that the channel republished after his death.

Morozowski was off air for more than half a year from late 2025. Returning to "Tak jest" on March 5, 2026, he told viewers: "I was not on air because I was fighting cancer. Now my health allows me to host the programme, not full time, but I will try to meet you as often as possible. Thank you very much to everyone who cheered me on." He died on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, after a long illness, aged 69. The type of cancer and the place of death were not made public. TVN24 announced his death in a statement and opened that evening's "Tak jest" with a tribute ending on his empty chair. His funeral was held on August 14, 2026, beginning at 10 am at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw, where his brother in law Krzysztof Nowakowski read a letter from his widow. Mourners included Adam Michnik, Monika Olejnik and Piotr Kraśko, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent a wreath. His urn was then buried privately at the cemetery in Pyry, Warsaw.