%0 Journal Article
%T "Though the Storm Is Roaring Around Us"
%A Goban-Klas, Tomasz
%J Media Research Issues
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/22996362PZ.19.012.10537
%N Volume 62, Issue 2 (238)
%P 87-96
%K Walery Pisarek, Irena Tetelowska, press studies 1970–1990 in Poland, Press Research Centre in Krakow, media research
%@ 0555-0025
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/article/choc-burza-huczy-wokol-nas
%X 
	Professor Walery Pisarek lived in turbulent times and experienced almost everything significant to the turbulent history of Poland and the world, the fate of which became his own as well. He was an acute observer of the changes he analysed and described in his research papers. At the same time he was a captain and a skipper of a small but significant scientific ship, called the Press Research Centre (OBP) in Cracow, in the turbulent decades of its dynamic development from 1969 to 1990. After the tragic death of Irena Tetelowska, Walery Pisarek became the director of the Centre and led his research teams, within the framework of AIERI and UNESCO, strengthening the Centre’s international position and recognition