She graduated from the Faculty of Polish studies at Jagiellonian University, then studied postgraduate journalism at the University of Warsaw. She started working as a journalist of the Kuryer Polski daily, where she wrote about social issues. She was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. In the early 1980s, she was one of the heads of NSZZ "Solidarność". After the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, she resigned from the PZPR. She was verified negatively, but after a few months she returned to work in the Kuryer Polski. In the same year, she started working in the editorial office of "Życie Warszawy", where, among others, she was the head of the political department. She also worked in the cultural and educational department. She resigned from Życie Warszawy 1990. In 1991 she joined the editorial team of "Polityka". She was a political commentator. She also worked with TVP, where from May 1993 to June 1994 she ran a hotline program on TVP1. From 2003 till her death, she was a radio journalist at Tok FM. From 2007, till her death, she was running the program of the Paradowska Pond on air with Superstacja. She taught journalism at Collegium Civitas. In 2011 she published a book titled "A chciałam być aktorką". She died in 2016. She was buried on July 2, 2016 at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow.
Awards and prizes
She received The Adolf Bocheński prize, the Perpetual Foundation Award of Ksawery and Mieczysław Pruszyński, Andrzej Urbańczyk. In 2002 she was also awarded the Golden Accreditation to the Sejm as the best journalist of the nationwide press. Also honored with the annual Grand Press award – the title of the best journalist in 2002. On the initiative of Renata Gluza from the monthly press, an additional prize was an actor's performance. Janina Paradowska performed on January 13 and 14, 2007 at Warsaw's Kwadrat Theater in the farce of Ray Cooney and John Chapman. In 2011 she received the Kisiel Award.
Personal life
Janina Paradowska was twice married with Tadeusz Stępień, journalist of Kurier Polski, and with Jerzy Zimowski.
