Beata Balogová

Beata Balogová

Beata Balogová joined The Slovak Spectator in 2003 and became the first Slovak editor-in-chief of Slovakia’s English-language weekly. Ms. Balogová was in charge of the paper and its special publications between 2003 and 2006. She spent nine months at Columbia University’s School of Journalism from 2006 to 2007, and in June 2007 she again took over as the editor-in-chief of the paper. Prior to joining The Slovak Spectator, Ms. Balogová worked for Slovakia’s first private newswire, SITA, and the state newswire, TASR. Ms. Balogová graduated with a Master of Science degree in journalism from the School of Journalism of Columbia University in New York. She also has a Master of Arts degree cum laude from the Comenius University School of Journalism, majoring in journalism. In January 2015 she left the Spectator to lead editorial team of the SME daily paper. She continues to cooperate with the Spectator.

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List of author's articles, page 2

Smoke filled Manhattan days after the attack.
Hundreds of thousands of people live under the threat of terrorism every day.
President Zuzana Čaputová
The president explains her steps and considerations in the recent coalition crisis.
Vladimír Pčolinský
The prime minister must not take suspicions lightly if he wants his government to survive.
Viktor Orbán
What remains for a member of the Hungarian minority who believes in the rule of law?
Igor Matovič
Independent journalists will continue doing their job.
The Vlkolínec village is on the UNESCO list.
Slovakia boasts a rich and long-rooted tradition of folk costumes and various traditional architecture.
Index.hu editorial after the journalists filed their resignations.
The fall of the independent news website in Hungary concerns all independent journalists in the region.
Beata Balogová speaks to one of the For a Decent Slovakia protests in 2018 on behalf of Slovakia's journalists. Balogová also serves as the vice-chair of the executive board of the International Press Institute.
Small media can make contributions that far exceed their circulation number, writes Beata Balogová.
The For a Decent Slovakia protest gathering in Bratislava in 2019.
Freedom is not a birthright. No generation receives freedom ready-made and perfect: pre-prepared for consumption.
The new prime minister and his government will have only hours instead of the usual hundred days.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán (centre) and his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini (centre-left) during their visit at the transit zone for migrants in Röszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border.
The identity of Slovakia's Hungarians cannot be based on how they feel about Orbán.
Let us think of the victims' families.
Has the country survived the abductions of the state, the inoculation of Mečiar, Fico governments and the Kočner underworld without harm to democracy?
Marian Kočner (r) faces charges for, among others, forging promissory notes.
Kočner's underworld will not cease to exist with his mere sentencing.
Oligarch Jaroslav Haščák owns the Penta financial group.
Jaroslav Haščák tried to control the state without voters giving him that power.
The media is freer, but also feels less secure.
Right of reply was introduced out of the wrong motivation with wrong timing.
Viktor Orban
The region has not managed to win any key EU post.
Following Smer's landslide victory in 2012, Robert Fico became the prime minister of a one-party government, unprecedented in Slovakia.
We did come close in the past. What protects us from becoming a mafia state?
Balint Magyar
Viktor Orbán critic says mafia states are particularly contagious in post-Communist countries.
Robert Fico
This piece is the runner-up for the European Press Prize 2019.
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