A WORD TO PRANICA 2025 – SHORT EVALUATION

On August 18 to 20, 2025, the Havlíčkobrod association organizedJOURNALISM PRACTICEevent called "SLOVO DO PRANICE".

The three-day event was intended for those interested in journalism and especially for novice journalists. It was focused on practical and general topics associated with independent journalistic work, written or spoken. The goal was to enrich the journalistic competence of those interested, and to strengthen their determination to publish so that they do not have to be ashamed of it in life.

Another goal was to find out what would be the interest among the actors of the so-called alternative scene in an event of this kind. Therefore, it was conceived as the zero year, with the continuation being decided by the tone of the event.

In this way, we would like to - together with thanks to the actors, sponsors and supporters of the event - send a brief recapitulation of the presented contributions with links to their placement on the YouTube channel.

Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, was very kind andhe greeted addressedour event.

Ivo Budil, professor from the Metropolitan University of Prague, gave a two-part lecture on "Bright tomorrows“.

Erik Best, an American journalist living in Prague, talked about "The art of analysis“.

Klára Alžběta Samková, lawyer and politician, thoroughly analyzed the topic "Memes, methods of spreading information, basics of legislative writing“.

Marek Stoniš, editor-in-chief of TO magazine, the media partner of our event, discussed the topic "Media ownership (Media and information as goods, media as part of market and business)“.

Jan Schneider, a security analyst, contributed to the topic “How to work with information“.

Richard Stepan, the young editor-in-chief of the weekly "Naše Naděje", chose the topic "Media ownership“.

Petr Stepanek, a politician, musician, writer and former vice-chairman of the Broadcasting Council, summarized his life experiences in the post “Pitfalls of independent journalism and examples of its displacement“.

I like Doll, an important Czech columnist and journalist from the Parliamentary List, dealt with what "Causes of the distortion of the current mainstream: Who does today's media serve?“.

Michal Semin, journalist and translator, chose the topic "How to get out of the media matrix“.

Petr Zantovsky, columnist, commentator and university teacher, gave a lecture on "Censorship and self-censorship“.

Tomas Koloc, journalist and social therapist', contributed two lectures. The first one was called "The social state of the Czech Republic, executions and their journalistic reflection". Koloc's second lecture was entitled "The 1960s, the Prague Spring and the subsequent occupation: truth versus mainstream lies“.

Jaroslav Štefec, a military analyst, enriched the event with a very specific lecture "Pitfalls of Investigative Journalism in the Defense and Security Environment“.

For JOURNALISM PRACTICE z.s.

Vítězslav Strnad, chairman of the association

Jan Schneider, member of the association