Success story of a journalist from Tarnów

By Stephen Franklin
Community Media Workshop

A 3-year-old child died on a plane from Chicago to Poland. This, Magdalena Pantelis instantly knew, was a story her readers would care about.

But she needed more detail to write about it for the Polish Daily News, the nation’s oldest daily newspaper in Polish, founded Jan. 15, 1908.

She needed to contact people who would know and could bring humanity to the story.

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An Immigrant Story Evolved
Like many in her community, Pantelis is an immigrant. She was a news anchor for a local television station in Tarnow, Poland, where she also studied the sociology of culture and news media. She was on her way to a doctorate degree.

read the whole story on http://chicagoistheworld.org/2015/09/telliing-our-stories-an-ethnic-media-success/