Just before communism collapsed he was a leader of underground Independent Students Association in the High School of Theater in Warsaw. He was to be a theatre critic, but because at that time the real theatre was on the streets and political life was erupting, he became instead a political critic. Igor used to work as a political reporter, cultural editor at "Zycie Warszawy" and deputy chief editor of daily “Express Wieczorny”, he was the chief editor of Polish News Agency, political editor of “Rzeczpospolita” daily and has been the anchor of a few TV shows. Currently he is working as columnist at “Rzeczpospolita”, is a radio anchor at Tok FM and last but not least co-owner and chief of the bloggers platform Salon24.pl, which gathers well known political journalists, scientists, politicians as well as a few thousands of ordinary people commenting on public live in their blogs.