Jacek Grudzień

Journalist and columnist

A journalist-publicist, graduate of Law from the University of Lodz. In 1992, he became a journalist for Radio Lodz. Since 1998 he has been associated with TVP3 Lodz. From 2012 to 2016, he headed TVP Lodz. He has won several journalism awards, including the Press monthly award for the Best Journalist of the Lodz Region. A promoter of Lodz, a fan of the city's history and culture. He is the author of a film popularising the first president of Lodz in independent Poland, Aleksy Rżewski, and an initiator of several projects, including the restoration of the bell of the Lodz Archcathedral.

From 2019 to 2024, he served as a director of the Department of Culture of the City of Lodz.

He sees alternative music as something similar to what a group of artists led by Władysław Strzemiński represented for Lodz before the World War II.