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Alex Storozynski is a Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist, a former member of the New York Daily News editorial board, founding editor of amNewYork and former city editor of
the New York Sun. He has also been
published in the European edition of The
Wall Street Journal, The Chicago
Tribune, The New York Post, Newsday and other publications. His biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, The Peasant
Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Era of Revolution, was published
in May 2009 by St. Martin’s Press, and his essay “From Serfdom to Freedom:
Polish Catholics Find A Refuge,” was published in the book Catholics in New York, Society Culture,
and Politics, 1808-1946, to coincide with the exhibit on Catholics at the
Museum of the History of New York. Storozynski has also served as chairman and
vice-chairman of the Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, which has more
than $1 billion in assets and 70,000 members, making it the largest ethnic
credit union in the United States. He is a frequent guest on New York’s
Polish radio stations and a contributor to Polskie Radio 1, the largest radio station in Poland. From 1985-87, Storozynski was a
post-graduate fellow at the University of Warsaw, during which time he worked
as a researcher for the Philadelphia
Inquirer and Boston Globe,
interviewing Lech Walesa and other Solidarity activists who helped overturn
Communism in Eastern Europe. He has a Master’s degree in journalism from
Columbia University and Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New
York at New Paltz. Storozynski was also the editor of Empire
State Report, the magazine of politics and public policy in New York, and has
written speeches for Democrats and Republicans in state politics. In 2006, Storozynski traveled to Iraq to
write about the Polish troops running the multinational zone in the provinces
of Diwaniyah and Wasit near the Iranian border. More recently he interviewed
Polish President Lech Kaczynski for the New
York Sun. In 2004, the Polish magazine Przegląd called Storozynski “a
new type of leader in the Polish community,” and even though he was born in
Brooklyn, they named him one of the “100 most influential Poles living
abroad.” In 2005, Polish-American World
named him “Man of the Year.” In 2006, the President of Poland awarded him
with the “Gold Cross of Service” for his articles about Poland. And in 2007
the American Center of Polish Culture in Washington, D.C. awarded him for his
“distinguished achievement in the field of journalism.” In 1991, Columbia University sent him to
lecture at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He has given
lectures about Kosciuszko at West Point, the University of Detroit and Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts in Michigan. Over the years he has appeared in
various radio and television broadcasts in New York and Europe. While at the Daily News Storozynski wrote editorials and op-ed columns on
complex public policy issues that brought about changes in the lives of all
New Yorkers. Storozynski was a member of the editorial board team which won
the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, 1999 George Polk Award, the
1999 Sigma Delta Chi Award, the 1999 and 2001 Deadline Club Award, Associated
Press editorial writing awards 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2000, and the 1997 and
2001 Silurian Awards for editorial writing.
Go to The Kosciuszko
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