His father, architect and town-planner Aleksander Wolodarski, emigrated to Sweden from Poland in the late 1960s.

Wolodarski started his journalistic career at the age of twelve, working as one of the cub reporters (a knattereporter) on the Swedish television programme Barnjournalen (Children's Journal).

[1] He studied business administration at the Stockholm School of Economics and in 1999, at age of twenty-one, started as an editorial writer on Expressen and as a TV host with Åke Ortmark on TV8.

He has also hosted Studio 8 and Wolodarski on TV8 and has been on the editorial committee of Judisk Krönika (Sweden's Jewish Chronicle).

He was granted a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University (2008–09) where his studies included Russia's modern history.