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Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn has more than 30 years experience working for Reuters in Washington DC, San Francisco, London and Prague. He started out on the economic desk in Washington helping to cover the U.S. economy and the White House before moving…

Jeremy Druker

Jeremy Druker is the executive director of Transitions and editor in chief of Transitions magazine, which has made solutions journalism a central part of its editorial strategy. He has led dozens of solutions journalism workshops online and throughout Central and…

Jana Ciglerová

Jana Ciglerová studied journalism in Prague and international journalism in London. In the UK, she worked for The Observer and also published with the Evening Standard. She began her journalistic career as a media correspondent for the biggest Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes while still…

Mark D. Harmon

Mark D. Harmon is the College of Communication & Information School of Journalism & Electronic Media Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He teaches courses in news writing, news reporting, introduction to journalism and electronic media, communication theory, and…

Pete Baumgartner

Pete Baumgartner is a senior correspondent who primarily covers politics and sports in Central Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.…

Silvie Lauder

Silvie Lauder is an award-winning Czech journalist. She studied journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. However, her real education came in 2004 when she started working at Respekt, a weekly magazine published in Prague. Before moving to Respekt,…

Raphael Minder

Raphael Minder is the Central Europe correspondent for The Financial Times, based in Warsaw since June 2022 and covering a handful of countries across the region that borders Ukraine. He is now reporting on the broader consequences for Europe of Russia’s invasion…

Tomáš Lindner

An editor of Respekt magazine since January 2008, and in the past five years, leading foreign department. I prefer writing about Germany, sub-Saharan Africa and the relationship between rich and poor countries. He enjoys especially writing long reports and interviews…

Tomáš Brolík

Tomáš Brolík works as a deputy editor-in-chief in Respekt magazine. He started working for Respekt at the end of 2012. He contributes to the Focus section, where he writes mostly about politics, economics, and occasionally environment. He focuses on the…