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 5

Michal Kováč died on October 5.

Michal Kováč chose courage

He said no in the times when it was easier to say yes to the machinery of mečiarism.

The start of the Visegrad cooperation in 1991: Presidents Lech Walesa, Árpád Göncz, and Václav Havel. (in the centre)

Who are the last defenders of Europe?

The European dream has always been most threatened by politicians who got stuck halfway from autocracy to democracy.

Abuse instead of protection

The suspicions of sexual and mental abuse suggest this was not an isolated case.

Sieť party leader Radoslav Procházka

Lessons from Sieť

Party's breakup offers textbook example of how not to do things.

President Andrej Kiska

Kiska: Fear is the easiest way to popularity

President Andrej Kiska has no information that anything bad might happen soon in Slovakia, he said in an interview for the Sme daily and The Slovak Spectator about terrorism, extremism, NATO cooperation, Turkey and more.

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A security guard walks near the scene of an attack in the resort city of Nice, southern France.

Terror wants to turn our streets into enemy territories

The terrorist did not attack only the French crowd. He attacked all the people who gather in the streets and squares, with their children, parents, and friends.

La Grande Abbuffata 1973

What comes after La Grande Bouffe?

Many consume democracy as if it were an all-you-can-eat buffet.

The day after Britain said no

The decision for Brexit is not the end of the EU, but it is the last big warning.

Kaliňák, more than just the interior minister.

Smer won’t give up its Kaliňák

Not in entering the government, but in the scandal of Robert Kaliňák Most-Híd and Sieť have lost their character.

Warning: This text contains beauty and happiness

We should not renounce other stories, those that address and inspire people to find the best within themselves.

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day.

Media freedom is a fragile thing

A society without journalists will more easily follow the calling of autocrats, liars, charlatans, and dictators.

President Andrej Kiska

Kiska: On election night I was waiting for a miracle

We have to learn to fight extremism actively, not tiptoe around it, says President Andrej Kiska in an interview for the Sme daily and The Slovak Spectator. He also admits he is glad elections are over and that the rhetoric of politicians is more cultured.

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What would a society ruled by the neo-Nazis be like?

Neo-Nazis choose their enemies easily, like a medieval inquisitor. It might as well be you.

Robert Fico

Fico does not share power

Smer kept the departments that Most-Híd and Sieť needed to carry out their priorities.

Smer's Robert Fico briefs on results of talks with Most-Híd, Sieť.

Smer remains without self-reflection

How will Bugár and Procházka rule with someone whose refugee-crisis-time vocabulary could beat any extremist?

At the grave of Jozef Tiso

In the spring

People who claim that they voted for the party of Marian Kotleba for other reasons should not overlook what regime it palliates.

Marian Kotleba.

Time of the extreme

It's important for the country not to be defeated.

Who would employ thieves and loafers?

Robert Fico is just an employee too. People pay him from their taxes.

Robert Fico

How will history remember Fico?

He’d had a non-recurrent chance to do something really statesman-like. But he approached his rule as a never-ending populist campaign.

"I like going to school."

It matters whether children are in the hands of a frustrated teacher

The school and teachers are strong archetypes which surface in our dreams even years after we left the classrooms.

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