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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Sme daily editor-in-chief Beata Balogová

Fico wants Slovakia for Slovaks

The new prime minister is now speaking only to his own voters.

Beata Balogová is Editor of the Sme daily.

Vengeful Fico, outrageous Danko, and Pellegrini who looks on

Politicians preoccupied with revenge should not return to power.

Beata Balogová is Editor of the Sme daily.

Pellegrini failed. He prioritised his own interests

Peter Pellegrini will return to Robert Fico, even if it will be an embrace of death for his party.

Beata Balogová is Editor of the Sme daily.

Fico defeats Slovakia. Hard work is ahead of us

Spreading fear eventually brought Fico victory.

Beata Balogová is Editor of the Sme daily.
President Zuzana Čaputová.

President Čaputová: I am not going anywhere. My work for democracy will have a different form

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová explains why she will not run in the 2024 presidential elections.

Beata Balogová is Editor of the Sme daily.

Matovič and Fico are alike. They see no shame in attacking journalists

Why we need to keep reminding people of how and why Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová died.

What the murder of two LGBT+ people in Bratislava reminds us of

It would hardly come as a surprise that the motive of the murder was hate.

Vladimir Putin

Putin is threatening all of us. Right now

The Russian president is sending a signal to all the crooks of the world.

Martina Kušnárová and Ján Kuciak, the couple murdered in February 2018 in connection to Kuciak's journalistic work.

Four years after Kuciak's murder, hostility towards journalists is back

The corruption that Kuciak wrote about is the real high treason.

In samizdats, not even the editorial team knew where the publication was printed and who the middleman between the editorial and the printing house was.

Spying on the press has a tradition in Slovakia

Who, and why, is surveilling journalists in the country?

Smoke filled Manhattan days after the attack.

9/11 is not a closed story

Hundreds of thousands of people live under the threat of terrorism every day.

President Zuzana Čaputová

Čaputová: If I had refused to appoint Matovič, the coalition deal would have collapsed

The president explains her steps and considerations in the recent coalition crisis.

Vladimír Pčolinský

Arrested SIS head lays bare yet more weaknesses of the Matovič government

The prime minister must not take suspicions lightly if he wants his government to survive.

Viktor Orbán

How Viktor Orbán exports his ideology

What remains for a member of the Hungarian minority who believes in the rule of law?

Igor Matovič

We are not entering the wars of Matovič

Independent journalists will continue doing their job.

The Vlkolínec village is on the UNESCO list.

Slovak folklore making a comeback: Unique diversity survived

Slovakia boasts a rich and long-rooted tradition of folk costumes and various traditional architecture.

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Index.hu editorial after the journalists filed their resignations.

We stand with Index.hu: Nincs másik

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.

Autocrats feel a chance against media once again

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.

How we stopped being comrades

Freedom is not a birthright. No generation receives freedom ready-made and perfect: pre-prepared for consumption.

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