Media plurality gives a voice to minorities, free-thinkers, and marginalised groups. It expresses their concerns and defends their rights. The time has come to explore the need for a plurality of capi...
Beata Balogova
Beata Balogová is editor-in-chief of the SME daily newspaper, one of the major independent dailies in the Slovak Republic. She joined SME in 2014, having previously been editor of Slovakia’s English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator from 2003 to 2014.
Beata graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava, majoring in journalism, and was a Fulbright scholar of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She also holds a 2007 master’s degree in journalism from the School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Beata won the 2020 European Press Prize in the opinion section, being the first Slovak to win the prestigious award.
Events IJF 2023
The rise of populism and autocratism: how should journalists respond?
Journalists under fire: protecting journalists reporting on corruption in Europe
Over the past 18 months, the murders of journalists in EU Member States have underscored just how dangerous a time it is for investigative journalists in Europe. Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jan Kuciak and...
The media milieu in Central Europe is unique: It is a young market struggling with a high concentration of media ownership, economic fragility, and an ingrained lack of reader trust. Despite these obs...
