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Joanna Strzalko

Journalist. Freelance reporter., Joanna Strzalko

Based in: Germany

She co-operates with the largest daily newspaper in Poland - Gazeta Wyborcza and its reporters' magazine - Duży Format, as well as with OKO.press, Goethe Institute's online magazine, weekend.gazeta.pl portal, Charaktery monthly, Radio 357. She has also published in Newsweek, Polityka, Tygodnik Powszechny and Twój Styl. The main focus of her texts are social changes in Germany and Sweden. She was three-time scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation (FWPN). Finalist of the Polish-German Tadeusz Mazowiecki Journalism Prize in 2019 and 2021. Winner of the 'O-po-wieść o-graniczeniu' competition under the auspices of the Olga Tokarczuk Foundation. She co-operated with Polish reporter and photographer Filip Springer and researched German-language books and articles concerning Oder river for his book "Mein Gott, jak pięknie!". She is a graduate of Swedish philology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Polish School of Reportage in Warsaw.