Waldemar Milewicz

From the news reports:

"Poland's most outstanding journalist has been killed," Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski told the PAP news agency. "It is a great tragedy for his relatives and a great loss for us all." ...

Milewicz, 47, worked more than 20 years for Poland's state TVP, and won numerous awards for his reporting from Chechnya, Afghanistan and other war zones. Among them was an honor from Johns Hopkins University for work in Chechnya in 1995. ...

"He went wherever there were conflicts to report them," anchorwoman Danuta Holecka said, her voice cracking. "He risked his life for us to show the world as it is."

On TVP's Friday newscast, the station played an old interview with Milewicz where he dismissed the dangers he faced. "You can get killed in downtown Warsaw," he said.

AP 07 May 2004