Media

Karolína Bánomová: Saste Roma – Info pal o koronavirus can be trusted about COVID-19, ignore the brainwashing conspiracy theories
12.5.2020 8:09 full story
European Commission sending millions of euro for independent media to combat disinformation
28.3.2020 18:13 full story
Czech Human Rights Commissioner to stay in office, most civil society members of Human Rights Council support her
17.1.2020 9:33 full story
Czech mayor who failed to tackle "white flight" publicly curses nonprofits and Romani people, Agency for Social Inclusion calls for dialogue
18.12.2019 8:55 full story
Pavel Botoš: Who will stop the use of terms like "cigoši" in the Czech Republic?
18.10.2019 9:18 full story
Jarmila Balážová, renowned journalist from the Romani community, joining commercial Czech online news server
15.9.2019 13:32 full story
Elena Gorolová, who campaigns for compensation for forced sterilization, featured on Czech talk show
2.5.2019 13:53 full story
videoBulgarian media showed edited footage of interethnic altercation in shop - full footage shows a different story
14.4.2019 10:31 full story
Czech TV series paints northern town as a ghetto - just like local politicians do
29.1.2019 12:24 full story
Hungary: Mass demonstrations, protesters say PM endangers the rule of law
17.12.2018 17:30 full storyvideoPetr Torák on deceptive media reports from England and what Brexit means for Roma
17.11.2018 7:24 full story
New York Times: Social network operators do not know how to intervene against disinformation and hatred
2.11.2018 14:24 The New York Times reports that when the Instagram social networking site was established, it was meant to be a page for people to share photos of their children being cute, their meals or their pets, but according to many experts during the past year it has rather become a hotbed of hateful posts that aim to spark division. It is becoming more and more obvious that the big digital companies have never properly grasped the negative dimension of the enormous reach of their platforms or how to cope with it. full story
ROMEA declines invitation to Czech Television's debate program on Czech President's remarks because of its sensationalism
11.10.2018 6:11 Czech Television is planning to address the recent insulting remarks made by Czech President Miloš Zeman about Romani people on next week's episode of its debate program called "You Have the Floor" (Máte slovo), moderated by Michaela Jílková. In his recent remarks, the President alleged that 90 % of Romani people in the country do not work for a living. full story
International journalism conference: Media consumers today are more like sports fans
5.10.2018 8:25 The modern hall of the library at the University of Warsaw is full; approximately 150 journalists from 28 countries are sitting here and their debate confirms that many of the problems both journalism and society are currently undergoing are similar whether one is the eastern or the western parts of Europe. The only Czech participant there is the HlídacíPes.org ("Watchdog") media outlet, a partner of the conference put together by the German organization "N-ost". full story
videoNorway: Romani online television channel "Nevimos Norvego" to collaborate with ROMEA TV
27.2.2018 7:08 In Norway the first Romani online television programming began at the end of January of this year with an online channel called Nevimos Norvego, and the Czech Republic's ROMEA TV online program, which was created in 2002 as the first Romani online television channel, will soon contribute to Nevimos Norvego's broadcasts. The Norwegian producers will publish articles, photos of events, and brief video reports on a daily basis and will broadcast longer video programs once a month focused on subjects connected with the Romani community in Norway. full story
Czech Republic: Unique "Memory of the Roma" project keeps historical memory alive through video
7.2.2018 7:33 Over a cup of coffee in her apartment in Rokycany, Czech Republic, 67-year-old Květa Tůmová Tomášová recalls the stories of her family, whose roots are in the Šariš region of eastern Slovakia. She talks about labor camps, partisans, the Second World War, the postwar migration to the Czech Republic, her childhood in Rokycany, and the classroom where she and her brother Mírák were the only Romani children. full story
International media: Anti-immigration, hateful, xenophobic parties from around Europe want to exploit Czech SPD's success
17.12.2017 8:31 Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press (AP), Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) and the French daily Le Monde have all reported that the choice of Prague as the location for the conference yesterday of parties seated in the European Parliament that are anti-immigration, hateful and xenophobic was no accident. According to these media, the ultra-right parties want to draw new energy from the recent electoral success of their Czech host, the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) movement of Czech MP Tomio Okamura. full story
YouTube wants to combat disinformation and hatred, hiring thousands to remove harmful content
7.12.2017 6:56 The Alphabet company, which owns the Google search engine and through it the YouTube internet portal for sharing videos, is hiring more staffers. They will be tasked with inspecting and removing videos with extremist, violent content. full story