The Kraków "Czas" /"Time"/ daily and the journalist circles in the years 1848-1918

The team of reporters and people associated with the "Czas" /Time/ daily, constituted a significant intellectual and political potential of contemporary Kraków. The sizable group of reporters associated with the daily were the effect of creating good work conditions in the paper's press office and the good reputation the "Czas" daily had acquired over the years. "Czas" had offered to the young journalists a chance of professional development as well as an opportunity to cooperate with some of the best reporters in Poland. Apart from a reliable team of its own reporters, the status and position of the paper among some of the other Kraków and Galician dailies, was determined by a team of expert collaborators and correspondents. It was precisely the "Czas" daily that could boast an extensive and efficient network of correspondents and collaborators who covered all of Galicia as well as the remaining partitioned zones and the rest of Europe; the correspondents supplied news and information about the current political, economic and cultural events. The journalist circles associated with "Czas" were so numerous that one can even distinguish within it two groups of reporters. The first group consisted of professional journalists: editor-in-chief, editor in charge, managers of individual sections (political, cultural, scientific, economic) and journalists who were permanently employed in the paper. The group in question also consisted of collaborators and correspondents who cooperated with the daily. The other group consisted of people who practised journalism but occasionally. These were people who were closely linked to the paper, but who were not directly responsible for the realization of the paper's program and goals. The people who made up the latter group were mostly politicians, writers and scientists. In can be said that the second group consisted of people who were the paper's informal collaborators. They were loosely associated with the paper and they published their articles occasionally and rather irregularly. In this group, we also come across collaborators who published regularly but for a variety of reasons, e.g. professional but not directly associated with the daily. The majority of these people were politicians, writers, poets and people associated with the arts.