Waldemar Milewicz (August 20, 1956 - May 7, 2004) was a Polish journalist and war correspondent. His undergraduate studies were in psychology. In 1981 he started his career in Polish public television, TVP. Since 1991 he has been working in the news. He travelled all over the world to most areas of armed conflict to report for TV and make documentaries, among others Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Abkhazia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Ethiopia. Thanks to his excellent documentaries This is a Strange World he became one of the best-known reporters in Poland.
On May 7th 2004 the car he was returning from Baghdad to the Polish base Camp Babilon came under heavy gunfire. Milewicz and a member of his crew, a Polish-Algerian Mounir Bouamrane, were killed on the site. Another Pole, who was in the car, a cameraman Jerzy Ernst, was shot in the arm.
Milewicz got a lot of awards and prizes for his work, among the most important are: SAIS-Ciba Prize for Excellence in Journalism by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1995 for his work in Chechnya and in 2001 the Polish "Reporter of the Year Award".