Education

Kateřina Šantúrová (Zachovalová) had been a journalist based in Prague for nearly two decades. She covered Czech and Slovak news for the English-language service of Deutsche-Presse Agentur (dpa) and was Time Magazine’s stringer in the Czech Republic. She wrote for Eastern Approaches, The Economist’s blog on Central and Eastern Europe, and the Economist Espresso, the magazine’s daily morning briefing. As a senior reporter at the Czech edition of Newsweek, she received the 2015 Journalism Prize for her cover story on methamphetamine. Katerina was also a foreign-language interview editor at DVTV, a Prague-based award-winning online television channel, and worked as a reporter at the Hospodářské noviny business daily, Ekonom weekly, and the short-lived Czech edition of Bloomberg Businessweek. Her stories aired on NPR and were broadcast on Czech Television. Over the years, she has worked for foreign correspondents of The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN. She is an alumna of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.