Anita Gargas Wojciechowska was born on 11 January 1964 and is a Polish journalist specialising in investigative journalism and a mathematician by education.
14 Facts About Anita Gargas
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Anita Gargas is a journalist of the weekly Gazeta Polska and the daily Gazeta Polska Codziennie, where she is the head of the investigative section.
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Anita Gargas graduated in mathematics from the University of Silesia in Katowice.
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Anita Gargas was published in the underground NZS periodical, Bez Retuszu, and at the end of the 1980s in another underground periodical, Przeglad Wiadomosci Agencyjnych.
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In June 1993, Anita Gargas published the then secret Macierewicz's List.
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In 1998, Anita Gargas became a member of the Polish Press Agency programme board.
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The order to prepare the new programme was given to Andrzej Godlewski, who invited Anita Gargas to run the programme.
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The Council of Media Ethics criticised Anita Gargas for passing over the truth and mixing information with commentary.
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Anita Gargas was the originator of the TV programme "The Big History Test".
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In 2007, Anita Gargas began a trial with film producer Maciej Strzembosz, who suggested on an internet blog that she was working in a classified position in the WSI.
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Anita Gargas won the trial because the producer failed to provide evidence for his accusations.
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Later on in her career in 2011, Anita Gargas made documentaries about the tragedy of 10 April 2010, the Smolensk air disaster.
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Anita Gargas was the author of the first investigative documentary film devoted to the Smolensk catastrophe, entitled 10.04.10, devoted to the explanation of the Smolensk crash, which was published as a supplement to Gazeta Polska on 6 April 2011.
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In 2012, Anita Gargas ended a lawsuit filed by Ryszard Grobelny, Mayor of Poznan, accusing her in a private indictment of defaming the public in one of the episodes of the Special Mission.