Voices from the Homelands: The Monthly Podcast
#19: The State of Czech Society, Media, and Academia (ft. Jan Bumba)
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In this podcast Voices from the Homelands from Prague (in cooperation with Radio Prague International) Miroslav Konvalina talks to a former journalist and spokesperson of the Charles University Jan Bumba about the state of the Czech society, media and academia.
Jan Bumba is currently working as a spokesperson of Charles University, the oldest and the largest university in the Czech Republic. Before entering the academic world, he spent two decades working as a journalist, mostly in the Czech National Radio. He has hosted hundreds of interviews, debates and discussions. As a journalist he covered elections both in the Czech Republic as well as in the USA and UK.
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