SEESOX/POMP Seminar: When East met West: The aftermath of foreign ownership of the press in CEE
SEESOX/POMP Seminar: When East met West: The aftermath of foreign ownership of the press in CEE
Thursday, 7 May 2015 - 1:30pm to 4:00pm
Venue:
European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, 70 Woodstock Road
Speaker(s):
Veselin Vačkov (Journalist with Lidové noviny, Prague)
Chair:
Jan Zielonka (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Series:
POMP Seminar Series
Recording(s):
Veselin Vačkov, Ph.D. is a Bulgarian-born Czech journalist, currently the director of the oldest Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny. Between 2000 and 2009, he was the paper’s editor-in-chief. Between 2009 and 2013, he worked as regional director of Mafra Media Group. He is an alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied in 1995-1996. In his parallel academic career, he has concentrated on the language of mass media.