Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine founded in 1933. Its print edition is available in English in the United States, Pakistan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. It is also available in Japanese in Japan, in Serbian in Serbia, in Polish in Poland, in Korean in Korea, in Turkish in Turkey and in Spanish in all Spanish speaking countries. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence. It is published in four English language editions and 12 global editions written in the language of the circulation region.

Between 2008 and 2012, Newsweek underwent internal and external contractions designed to shift the magazine's focus and audience while improving its finances. Instead, losses accelerated: revenue dropped 38 percent from 2007 to 2009. The revenue declines prompted an August 2010 sale by owner The Washington Post Company to 92-year-old audio pioneer Sidney Harman—for a purchase price of $1.00 and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities.

Max Kolonko

Max Kolonko (born Mariusz Max Kolonko in 1965, Lubliniec, Poland) is a Polish-American producer, writer, author, broadcast journalist and a U.S. correspondent for a number of television news organizations (TVP, TVN, Panorama).

From 2001-2005, he was a senior White House correspondent for TVP, the national television in Poland.

He is the producer, director and creator of a popular, Telly winning, television series, Discovering America with Max Kolonko, a series on various aspects of American life. He is the President of Media 2000 Communications, a New York City television production company.

He has contributed an article to The Huffington Post.

MaxTV

Kolonko is the founder of "MaxTV – Telling It Like It Is", an independent television channel on YouTube. Within six months of its inception in November 2012 and following the presidential elections in the United States, MaxTV jumped from over 100,000 subscribers to over 400,000, ranking it among the top Polish-language channels hosted by the site. By December 2014, MaxTV was the most popular opinionated news program distributed on the Internet in Poland with over 39 million views. Kolonko has used this forum to petition the Polish government for change, including a 2013 decision to jail protestors there. In his commentaries, Kolonko mainly criticizes political and media establishment, political correctness, Polish national defects and social matters. His motto "telling it like it is" has gained popularity among young Polish people, many of whom are his followers.