The radio experts: The best News Reports will be selected by five experts
Five jurors will decide on the Reportage winners in Prix Bohemia Radio. The jury can boast experts with many years of experience in creating radio programs and foreign reporting.
The first judge is working as the radio correspondent for the German national radio, Deutschlandradio and ARD, in Prague since September 2022. Marianne Allweiss is reporting about the Czech Republic and Slovakia for more than 60 German public radio stations as well as contributing to online and social media. She has been working for the German national radio station “Deutschlandfunk Kultur” in Berlin since her editorial traineeship in 2009/2010: she hosted and planned current programs in the "Prime Time", worked as an editor and presenter in the newsroom as well as a reporter.
Marianne Allweiss gained experiences in the Czech Republic working for the German program of “Radio Prague”, the Czech international radio station in 2008. She has represented the German correspondent in Prague several times in recent years. She studied history, political science and economics in Berlin and Potsdam (Germany), Tartu (Estonia) and at the College of Europe in Warsaw (Poland).
Regional Director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, overseeing the work of European language services from the Balkans to Ukraine. Jeremy Bransten started out as a journalist focusing on Russia and has reported from almost every country in the former Soviet bloc over the past 30 years. He has also served as the director of Radio Free Europe's Central Editorial Office. He studied Russian and Soviet history at Harvard and Central European history at the University of London. Prague has been a long-time home base for Jeremy and his family.
Jolyon Naegele is a native of New York City. After studying international relations at City College of New York and the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Bologna and Washington, he worked as a journalist inter alia as Voice of America’s correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe (1984-94). During that time he covered Communist repression and the disintegration of one-party rule throughout the region. He interviewed a wide variety of opposition figures, as well as members of oppressed minority groups, and covered the break-up of the USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
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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He worked for RFE/RL (1996-2003), mainly covering the western Balkans as well as Slovakia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. He served as a political affairs officer for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (2003-2017). He currently lives in the Czech Republic, where he is researching the files of the Communist-era secret police. In December 2019, he was awarded the Jiří Pelikán prize for his journalistic work in contributing to the restoration of democracy in Czechoslovakia.
Emily Thompson is the Communications Manager with the Public Interest Law Network, a global NGO connecting non-profit organizations with pro bono legal assistance. She previously worked as the Communications Officer for the Prague Civil Society Centre, which supports civic groups and independent media in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as the web editor for the Media and Public Affairs Department, where she worked to promote press freedom in the broadcast region and showcase the work of RFE/RL journalists. Prior to joining RFE/RL in 2013, she worked as a writer and editor for The Prague Post and several other regional publications focused on Central Europe.
Last member of the jury, David Vaughan (www.davidvaughan.cz), is a writer, broadcaster and journalist, living in Prague. His documentary novel Hear My Voice won the 2015 Czech Book readers’ prize. The English version was published in London in 2019. David Vaughan has made award-winning radio documentaries for the BBC and Czech Radio on a wide variety of subjects. He teaches journalism and lectures on media history at several Prague universities. His book Battle for the Airwaves (2008) looks at the central role of radio in the Munich Crisis of 1938. For eight years he was editor-in-chief of Radio Prague, the international service of Czech Radio, and prior to that he was the BBC correspondent in Prague. He is author and curator of the exhibition No Night So Dark (2020-2024), which tells the story of a family’s search for its own past. He also created a podcast telling the family’s story (2021).
