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

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.