Quick Facts
Biography
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 is a contributor toThe 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.
Books
- Discovering America with Max Kolonko (2006) Compilation of Max Kolonko's film and television stories in print
Awards
- Winner of 2001: Victor Award as Best Journalist of the Year.
- Winner of 2008: Telly Award for The Shield - documentary.
- Winner of 2008: two Effie Awards for Liberty Direct commercial; Silver in the category: Launch and Bronze in the category: Media House.
- In 2009, the bronze prize at the 10th Effie Awards in the category of Financial Services for the advertising campaign "Mariusz Max Kolonko in Poland - Ogilvy Group".
- In 2016 received the Kisiel Award in Poland for excellence in opinionated news journalism.
