The paper registers and discusses Zbigniew Herbert’s unknown to scholars early journalism. 48 press papers from the years 1948–1955, found mainly in Toruń mutated edition of “Ilustrowany Kurier Polski” (“Illustrated Polish Courier”) and in “Słowo Powszechne” (“Universal Word”) of the PAX Association, are a marked supplement to the work by Paweł Kądziela Twórczość Zbigniewa Herberta. Monografia bibliograficzna (Zbigniew Herbert’s Creativity: A Bibliographical Monograph, 2009), and to Herbert’s journalistic papers Węzeł gordyjski oraz inne pisma rozproszone 1948–1998 (The Gordian Knot and Other Collected Papers 1948–1998, 2001; second impression, extended and amended 2008), also collected and prepared by the same author. The years 1949–1951 is also the time when Herbert co-worked with the Gdańsk Radio Station, and with the Pomeranian Radio Station in Bydgoszcz and in Toruń of the Polish Radio, which resulted in radio broadcasts. The paper examines 16 such broadcasts, pieces of information about which were found in the National Archives in Gdańsk and in Bydgoszcz.