The festival’s podcast jury will feature experts in technologies, analytics, media and the arts
The youngest category of the Prix Bohemia Radio Festival is the Podcast category. This category responds to the significant interest in listening to and producing podcasts that has been observed in the Czech environment in recent years. The festival continues to reflect the current trend of multimedia content.
The jurors for the Podcast category will include Adam Javůrek – an analyst at Czech Radio. He analyses the listenership of podcasts and on-demand programmes and follows foreign trends in new media, including podcasts and their distribution. He produced his first podcast back in 2006, but fell for the format completely when he heard the "Our Computers, Ourselves" episode from the Invisibilia podcast five years ago. In more recent years, he was involved in the launch of Vinohradská 12 and Čekání na prezidenta (Waiting for the President) podcasts. Before Czech Radio, he worked with the Respekt weekly and the Hospodářské noviny newspaper, to name a few. He is looking forward to someone starting a podcast about ski jumping someday.
Another jury seat will go to Barbora Vičarová. Barbora works as a creative and idea maker, she focuses mainly on new media, social networks and marketing. She was responsible for creative campaign strategies for Czech Television projects such as Ochránce (The Defender), Božena, Devadesátky (The Nineties), StarDance (Czech version of Strictly Come Dancing), Peče celá země (Czech version of The Great British Bake-off), etc. and for TV Nova/Voyo: The Markovič Method: Hojer, Iveta, Sex O`Clock, etc. She also works as a freelance creative and strategist, she founded the MALBA.space creative platform designed to interconnect visual art and business. She studied Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Arts Management at the University of Economics. She enjoys cultural events, literary, music and series production. She is an avid podcast listener and has followed both Czech and international podcast scene for a long time. This is her second time as a jury member at Prix Bohemia Radio.
The third member of the jury, Hana Trojánková Biriczová, is mainly a journalist and presenter, but more recently also a teacher and graduate from the prestigious Teach Live programme. Together with Šimon Holý they produce the Poprask (The Fuss) podcast for the Reflex magazine in which they comment on current pop culture events as well as in their own lives. She also interviews young people in a journalistic opinion podcast called RANT for the Prostor revue. For over eight years she co-hosted a popular Radio Wave podcast Kompot (Compote). Her articles and comments have appeared in magazines such as Reflex, Heroine and the Deník N newspaper. The Marianne magazine published a series of her texts on motherhood and work. She enjoys writing about social issues that stir strong emotions such as women's health, environment, work-life balance, urban life or minority equality. She studied Journalism and International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and worked for Czech authorities dealing with, among other things, nuclear safeguards or EU agenda.
The competition’s results will also be in the hands of Jakub Skalický, television scriptwriter and director. He studied humanities, Second Faculty of Medicine and Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Parallel to his studies, he concentrated on his future profession which he got familiar with through a number of assistant positions.
Since the mid-90s he worked on his own audio-visual projects both as an author and director: Puls (Pulse), Kult-off (Cult-off), Horečka páteční noci (Friday Night Fever) and Paskvil (Dud), each a multi-episode cycle covering mainly progressive culture and art. At the turn of the millennium he was involved in socio-cultural programmes Kosmopolis and Folklorika, wrote several educational cycles for Czech Television, People in Need (NGO) and the Antikomplex association.
A grand total of twenty two jurors will be deciding the winners of the 40th annual Prix Bohemia Radio festival awards. National and international radio professionals will sit on each of the juries for the documentary, drama, news report, and podcast categories and decide which works will reach the main competition.
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Over the years he also gained experience in producing radio programmes for Czech Radio Vltava. In recent years, though, he has focused on larger-scale socio-cultural documentaries such as Concerto Bohemia, UMPRUM 150 or PopStory, a Czech Television Art series. The same TV channel has aired his ArtZóna (ArtZone), now its flagship prime-time weekly programme for the past seven years. In collaboration with Aleš Najbrt they have just finalized a co-production seven-episode series Identita (The Identity) about Czech graphic design.
Next jury seat belongs to Lukáš Hejlík, who is first and foremost a Czechia-trotter. He has been touring the Czech Republic with his theatre and literary project Listování (Turning Pages) for almost 25 years. Thanks to this project, he gets to visit all that the Czech countryside has to offer and he has the chance to discover more tips for his Gastromap - a very successful food blog that has grown into an app, a number of books, TV shows or podcasts. Lukáš has also starred in many TV series.
The sixth member of the jury is Peter Hanák. A journalist, presenter and university lecturer. He works with Aktuality.sk for which he has launched several successful podcasts – ranging from daily news and current affairs programmes to series such as Mafiánsky štát (Mafia State) and Telo (The Body). Through 2012-2018 he worked at Slovak Radio (RTVS), before that at the Hospodárske noviny newspaper. He won two Slovak Journalism Awards - for the best podcast and for the best news coverage of an event. He studied journalism (University of Bratislava) and then law and economics (Rotterdam, Hamburg and Haifa). He received his PhD title in Media Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. His professional work focuses on the relationship between media and democracy and media law. He teaches at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Bratislava and at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA). He was a member of the jury for the Podcast category at Prix Bohemia Radio in 2022.
The last jury member is Vojtěch Koval. A podcaster, podcast producer, presenter and lecturer. He gained experience in spoken word mainly during his seven years at Czech Radio where he started at the Domestic News Desk and went on to co-found Experiment, a science and technology magazine in 2018 and later produced the Future R science podcast which brought him to the topic of sustainability and circular economy, still one of his major focuses. In 2021 he decided to go freelance and try his luck as a podcaster and podcast producer with a daring mission to enhance the technical and content quality of the Czech podcast scene. For the third year now he has produced LOOPA by Vojta Koval, a podcast about sustainability in collaboration with CIRA Advisory. Under the umbrella of his LOOPA Circular Studio he has produced podcasts for ŠKODA AUTO, Czech Invest and the Ministry of Transport (Czech Space News), Vodafone (Vodafone Speaking), the Ria brand (OnRia), the BlueGhost agency (Update) and the Europeum Institute.
