About me

Filip Rožánek

Journalist & Media Analyst

For a quarter of a century I have worked with the media, communication technologies and the audiovisual market. I work as a freelancer and am open to working with a range of clients and newsrooms. Since 2019 I have been the permanent editor of the DigiZone section at Lupa.cz, published by Internet Info, which covers electronic media, streaming and the audiovisual market. I follow above all the television and radio markets, streaming, public service media and media legislation.

I teach contemporary media at Metropolitan University Prague and regularly comment on them on television, on radio, in podcasts and at expert debates.

What I work on

I write news, interviews, analyses and explainers about media and technology. I am interested in who owns the media, how they are funded, what rules they operate under and how the habits of their audiences are changing. I have followed the Czech and European audiovisual market for many years, covering TV groups, streaming platforms, digital broadcasting, content distribution and technological change. I also deal with the position, funding and oversight of Czech Television and Czech Radio, media legislation, the decisions of regulators and the European rules that affect the media.

Teaching and public speaking

At Metropolitan University Prague I teach the course Structure of Contemporary Media; I have taught at the Department of Media Studies since 2023. I also teach at the Summer School of Journalism in Havlíčkův Brod. I lecture to students, journalists, diplomats and employees of public institutions, and I moderate expert conferences and discussions on media and technology.

Current work

In English I publish Czech Media Monitor, a project that makes important news about Czech media available to readers abroad. As an external expert I also contribute to international research projects on media plurality, regulation and the functioning of the media.

Career

I have followed media topics since 2001 and have worked directly in the media since 2003.

Editor, DigiZone section, Lupa.cz | Internet Info, s.r.o. (2019 – present)

Editor-in-chief, Marketing & Media | Economia, a.s./Forum Media, s.r.o. (2015–2018)

I later also helped to move the magazine and its website MAM.cz to a new publisher.

Innovation Editor | Economia, a.s. (2014–2015)

I prepared digital projects for Hospodářské noviny.

Strategic Analyst | Czech Radio (2013–2014)

Head of the Internet Editorial Office | Czech Radio (2006–2012)

In eight years at Czech Radio I took part in reforming its internet news, in developing mobile apps and in a new concept of children’s broadcasting that led to the creation of Radio Junior.

Editor, later editor-in-chief of media news | Česká média, s.r.o. (2003–2006)

Education

Bachelor’s degree – 2014 – College of International and Public Relations Prague o.p.s.

Field of study: PR and Communication.

Where I have published

For Hospodářské noviny I wrote a regular Monday commentary on media events and business communication (2014–2023). Besides the newsrooms I worked in, I have written for Britské listy, Deník Impuls, Deník N, Dějiny & současnost, E15, Ekonom, Finmag, Lidové noviny, Literární noviny, Metro, Mladý svět, Playboy, Redhot, Reflex, Strategie, Svět namodro, Týden and Týdeník Rozhlas. For the server Médiář I wrote media columns from 2011, and for Aktuálně.cz I wrote commentaries. For Radio Wave I prepared the weekly on technology Děrné štítky (in Czech), I contributed texts on radio work to the trade bulletin Svět rozhlasu, and I took part in publishing several books and anthologies.

Selected projects and awards

August 1968 – a live broadcast from the past.

A Czech Radio project commemorated the occupation of Czechoslovakia through historical news reports published in real time on social networks. It won the Google Prize for innovative online journalism in the Journalism Award 2013 (presented in 2014) and the Czech Radio Director General’s Award.

International experience.

In 2023 I completed the International Visitor Leadership Program in the United States. The Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists focused on traditional and digital broadcast media.

Additional Resources

Wikipedia Page (external link)

Authority Record – National Library of the Czech Republic (external link)

Press kit

Portrait photographs in full resolution and a short bio are available on the Czech page Tiskové materiály.