Joanna Pinkwart


Joanna Pinkwart is a Polish journalist. Former US correspondent for Polish Television, the largest media corporation in Poland, currently associated with Kanał Zero.

Life and career

Joanna Pinkwart attended the State Primary School of Art Techniques in Zakopane and Seweryn Goszczynski High School in Nowy Targ. After that she studied political science at the Department of Political and International Studies of the Jagiellonian University. Her professional career started from the cooperation with the editing offices of "Tygodnik Podhalański" weekly, and "Dziennik Polski" daily, and then continued at the editing office of the RMF Classic Radio in Cracow. Since June 2007 she has been part of the team of the TVP first working at the local "Kronika" – daily news service from Cracow, and after December 2009 – in Warsaw, as the editor of "Teleexpress" – nationwide daily news and TVP Info – the largest Polish news channel. Since June 2019 she has been a foreign correspondent for TVP in Washington D.C., replacing Zuzanna Faltzman, and working together with Rafał Stańczyk. Until march 2024, Joanna Pinkwart was the only Polish journalist accredited at NASA for reports from John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
In March 2024, after 17 years, she finished working for public television and moved to Kanał Zero.

More famous TV coverage

Reportages (selected)

  • "Piekło misjonarza", the report from war in Afghanistan;
  • "Polscy ratownicy w Nepalu", the report about firefighters-rescuers in Nepal ;
  • "Owoce Rewolucji", the report on the fate of the leaders of the "Arab Spring" in Tunisia.

Family

Daughter of the writer Maciej Pinkwart and the sister of the traveler and journalist Sergiusz Pinkwart.