Paweł Kapusta takes over as editor-in-chief of Poland’s Rzeczpospolita

Gremi Media has given Paweł Kapusta two jobs at once. From September 1 he is editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita and publishing director of the company. Gremi Media publishes Rzeczpospolita and the financial daily Parkiet. Kapusta takes over from Michał Szułdrzyński, who had run the newsroom since October 2024. Szułdrzyński becomes deputy editor-in-chief, in charge of paid-for content, the printed editions and the paper’s plans for subscriptions.

Kapusta is one of the best-known names in Polish online media. He joined Wirtualna Polska, the country’s largest Polish-owned news website, in November 2016. He ran its sports service WP SportoweFakty and later the whole website, and he left the top editorial job in January 2026. He started his career at the football weekly Piłka Nożna. He has written three books of reportage, Agonia, Gad and Pandemia, and he has won the Grand Press award and the Teresa Torańska prize.

The new role puts the newsroom and the business side in the same pair of hands. Wojciech Kuśpik, president of Gremi Media, calls this the next stage of the group’s change. Grupa PTWP, a company from Katowice that runs conferences and trade media, bought 56.82 percent of Gremi Media in December 2025. The new structure is the clearest sign so far of how it plans to run its most important title.

Rzeczpospolita is one of few Polish dailies earning from subscriptions

Rzeczpospolita is Poland’s leading newspaper for law and business. It is also one of the few national dailies that makes money from paid digital subscriptions. Putting a website editor in charge suggests PTWP expects growth to come from online readers and subscriptions rather than from print. Szułdrzyński’s new job suggests the printed paper and the paid-for journalism will be run as a separate product. In his first statement, quoted by Wirtualne Media, Kapusta said his priority would be to separate genuinely important news from noise, and to do more original reporting.

Kapusta now runs a title that competes with his old employer for business readers. Wirtualna Polska has spent heavily on economic and political coverage in recent years. Kapusta brings detailed knowledge of how that was done to a rival with a stronger name in paid content but a much smaller audience.

Gremi Media announced no further changes at Rzeczpospolita

Gremi Media has not announced any more staff changes. The publisher says politics, economics, business and world affairs will stay at the heart of what it offers, mixing fast news with deeper analysis. The first test of the new set-up will be how quickly the paper’s digital subscription numbers respond to the website-style approach Kapusta is expected to bring. The company does not publish those numbers.