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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Matovič has done the easy part; now we are in it with him

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.

Ethnic Hungarians should not be divided into good and bad

The identity of Slovakia's Hungarians cannot be based on how they feel about Orbán.

Still a brutal murder that shouldn't have happened

Let us think of the victims' families.

Freedom can be lost democratically, from the inside

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.

Abandon hope all ye who enter Threema

Kočner's underworld will not cease to exist with his mere sentencing.

Oligarch Jaroslav Haščák owns the Penta financial group.

Slovakia listens to Gorilla

Jaroslav Haščák tried to control the state without voters giving him that power.

Why are they passing a law for politicians instead of protecting journalists?

Right of reply was introduced out of the wrong motivation with wrong timing.

Viktor Orban

Visegrad won nothing, only helped Orbán flex his muscle

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.

Is Slovakia a mafia state?

We did come close in the past. What protects us from becoming a mafia state?

Balint Magyar

Slovakia is not a mafia state yet, but it is in danger

Viktor Orbán critic says mafia states are particularly contagious in post-Communist countries.

Robert Fico

Let’s continue talking about murder, not Fico’s media tyranny

This piece is the runner-up for the European Press Prize 2019.

Strache announces his resignation.

Putin's Trojan horses don't feel bound by democracy

Unlike Strache, Andrej Danko goes to the Red Square to bow to Putin quite openly.

Murdered journalist Ján Kuciak was surveiled, too.

Is the state aware of the Orwellian dimensions of the surveillance of journalists?

Our paranoias have come to life. Surveillance of journalists is unacceptable in a democracy.

A billboard from a campaign of the Hungarian government showing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American financier George Soros with the caption "You, too, have a right to know what Brussels is preparing to do." is displayed at a street in Budapest.

EPP should expel Orbán

The EPP argument that the party does not want to punish the Hungarian people simply won’t stand.

Media zombies are soft on the powerful

Politicians again shelter themselves with sinful press code amendment.

Robert Fico in parliament.

Fico tears his dignity into pieces during live broadcast

The ex-prime minister is dragging his party into a political sink.

Bratislava For Decent Slovakia protest March 16, 2018.

Politicians will not make our decisions for us

Our power to influence the new year go far beyond applause and booing.

Bratislava's SNP Square in November 1989

What we didn't know about our freedom

In 1989, we thought that once the job was done, we would only go out to the squares for Sunday walks.

The police officer in Veľká Mača at the site of Kuciak and Kušnírová's murder.

This is a test of how the state works

In the investigation of the murder of journalist, much more is at stake than just the good name of the police.

When will we take Nagyika out of the coffin? We cannot talk about death

We intensively prepare for the arrival of a child, but when it comes to dying we hide it as though it were a scandal

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