From July 2010 to August 2011, I worked at The Prague Post as Web Editor/News Reporter, a dynamic, newly created role that combined news reporting with editing praguepost.com.

Over this time I wrote more than 140 news reports on a wide range of high-profile topics including politics, foreign affairs, corruption, health, the legacies of communism, crime, social affairs, business and legal affairs as well as many popular color stories and features.

My reports included five front page lead stories on the Czech floods of summer 2010, a constitutional challenge to Prague election results, EU privacy rules, protests against national pay cuts and outcry over plans for a homeless ‘concentration camp’ outside Prague.

At the same time, I edited all sections of praguepost.com, successfully increasing readership via a number of initiatives such as: the web-only Daily News Briefing; a rotating homepage flash box highlighting top content; a headline ticker with the latest stories; an interactive restaurant map of the best restaurants as reviewed by the paper’s food writers.

I also managed and expanded the paper’s social media channels, achieving a 300% rise in Facebook Likes and 1,000% rise in Twitter followers.

To see samples of my work for the newspaper, see the print article slideshow above. The articles are also available to read online using the links below.

 

• Mašín gang member dies – News – The Prague Post
• EU takes on Internet giants – News – The Prague Post
• Protests over library Internet cuts – News – The Prague Post
• More charged in driver testing – News – The Prague Post
• Cops charged in cover-up – News – The Prague Post
• Survey: MP is least respected job – News – The Prague Post
• Smugglers may have cooked up 10 years in prison – News – The Prague Post
• Active WWII bomb found – News – The Prague Post
• Cabinet approves budget outline – News – The Prague Post
• Bid to ban Communists unlikely – News – The Prague Post
• Transit ticket scam probed – News – The Prague Post
• ECHR rejects Brožová-Polednová’s appeal – News – The Prague Post
• TOP 09 backs Kalousek – News – The Prague Post
• National Museum closes for repair – News – The Prague Post
• Cabinet signs off on final health reform bills – News – The Prague Post
• Religious days offer a holiday double dip – Features – The Prague Post
• Police investigate ‘anti-Semitic’ graffiti – News – The Prague Post
• Unpopular health reforms still on – News – The Prague Post
• Drobil case is dropped, raises ire – News – The Prague Post
• News – Mongolia to get rare horses – The Prague Post
• News – Total lunar eclipse set for June 15 – The Prague Post
• The Prague Post – News – ČR scores high on peace index
• The Prague Post – News – Crocodiles are facing the chopping block
• The Prague Post – Business – Tech & Telecom – Google gets Street View license back
• The Prague Post – Business – Prague firm wins IPTV contract in China
• The Prague Post – News – Ash cloud again affecting flights
• The Prague Post – News – ‘Czech Fritzl’ gets 8 years
• The Prague Post – News – Bribery claimed in driving tests
• The Prague Post – News – Hospitals struggle with cuts to budget
• The Prague Post – News – Transit fares are set to rise
• The Prague Post – News – Muslims hope for ease in tensions
• The Prague Post – News – Reforms decried as asocial
• The Prague Post – Magazine – Health & Wellness – Ministry proposes cutting medicines from insurance
• The Prague Post – Magazine – Health & Wellness – Hospitals vow to sue insurers over unpaid invoices
• The Prague Post – News – 15 arrests at May Day march in Brno
• The Prague Post – Business – Tech & Telecom – Prague team wins New York innovation prize
• The Prague Post – News – Nitroglycerin blast at explosives factory probed
• The Prague Post – News – Brno set for confrontation on Labor Day
• The Prague Post – News – Free lunches for man who got facial tattoo
• The Prague Post – News – Ministry mulls tougher criteria for business visas
• The Prague Post – News – Police defend anti-Roma march
• The Prague Post – News – Crumbling ice rink a threat to public safety
• The Prague Post – News – Scant support for health-fee rise
• The Prague Post – News – Krejčíř charged in South Africa
• The Prague Post – News – Census support fails minorities
• The Prague Post – News – Rare photo heist spurs manhunt
• The Prague Post – News – Suspect held on Troja girl’s murder dies
• The Prague Post – Tempo – Europe ski record attempt crashes in the Czech Republic
• The Prague Post – News – Far-right assault Roma
• The Prague Post – News – Charities join Japan aid
• The Prague Post – News – Inspectors catch luxury stores cheating customers
• The Prague Post – News – ČSÚ plays down census disputes
• The Prague Post – News – Author Arnošt Lustig dies at 84
• The Prague Post – News – 2011 Census forms to be issued March 25
• The Prague Post – Magazine – Careers – Changing times call for flexitime at the office
• The Prague Post – News – Threat to health services lifted
• The Prague Post – Tempo – Revamp for flooded U.S. Czech & Slovak Museum
• The Prague Post – News – Petition pushes for Czech smoking ban
• The Prague Post – News – Deal may stop doctors’ walk-out
• The Prague Post – News – Hybášková set to be EU’s Iraq envoy
• The Prague Post – News – Doctors’ dispute still in disarray
• The Prague Post – News – Ministers trade insults over lost millions
• The Prague Post – News – Carbon credit thieves still at large
• The Prague Post – News – Doctors protest despite pay offer
• The Prague Post – News – Gov’t agrees to pension reform parameters
• The Prague Post – Business – Hackers steal carbon credits
• The Prague Post – News – Czech gov’t nixed U.S.-Russia arms deal
• The Prague Post – News – Pardon for judicial murderer condemned
• The Prague Post – News – Air travel improves after holiday
• The Prague Post – News – Nearly 200 hurt on New Year’s
• The Prague Post – News – Ukrainian ex-minister gets asylum
• The Prague Post – Business – Galileo project to be headquartered in Prague
• The Prague Post – News – EU criticizes ‘gay tests’ on asylum seekers
• The Prague Post – News – Cities to gain powers to regulate gambling
• The Prague Post – Tempo – Tourists give high marks to ČR in survey
• The Prague Post – News – U.S. questioned Czech-Syrian arms deal – Wikileaks
• The Prague Post – News – Thousands of doctors begin handing in notice
• The Prague Post – News – Direct presidential vote debated
• The Prague Post – News – Prisons lack funds for 2011
• The Prague Post – News – German president pays ČR state visit
• The Prague Post – News – ČEZ may pay for its regulation
• The Prague Post – News – Czech Republic’s oldest wine bottle sells for 107,000 Kč
• The Prague Post – Magazine – Weddings – Marvelous melodies
• The Prague Post – News – Sale of paper transit passes ends Nov. 13
• The Prague Post – News – “Final Solution” author sentenced
• The Prague Post – News – Public workers are set to strike
• The Prague Post – Business – Seizure of forged bank notes on the rise
• The Prague Post – News – Nine killed in Florenc fire
• The Prague Post – News – Czech children becoming less active
• The Prague Post – News – Public workers to strike Dec. 8
• The Prague Post – Real Estate – Avestus expands Explora office
• The Prague Post – News – Barták on leave after bribe claims
• The Prague Post – News – Disgraced judge resigns his post
• The Prague Post – News – Senate passes austerity measures
• The Prague Post – News – ECHR looks at Horáková execution case
• The Prague Post – News – Judge may have influenced cops
• The Prague Post – News – Gov’t makes partial climbdown on pay
• The Prague Post – News – Health workers call off strike
• The Prague Post – News – Security tightened in terror alert
• The Prague Post – News – Customs busts textile fraud gang
• The Prague Post – News – Tartan Army invades city
• The Prague Post – News – Vietnamese minority to get TV channel
• The Prague Post – News – City ups redress over tunnel collapse
• The Prague Post – Tempo – Tyson’s prices were the knockout punch
• The Prague Post – News – Small parties decry ODS redistricting
• The Prague Post – News – Thousands march in Prague protest over pay cuts
• The Prague Post – Business – Google hits roadblock on Czech maps
• The Prague Post – News – Ministry defends anti-corruption plan
• The Prague Post – News – Health, social workers threaten strike
• The Prague Post – News – Marketers get access to OpenCard data
• The Prague Post – News – New ombudsman is sworn in
• The Prague Post – News – Monkeys on the run from zoo in Moravia
• The Prague Post – News – Shooting stirs gun debate
• The Prague Post – News – Cop is jailed over beating death
• The Prague Post – News – Defense minister overhauls staff
• The Prague Post – News – Schwarzenberg blasts immigration summit
• The Prague Post – News – Temelín report draws doubts
• The Prague Post – News – 1 in 2 airport taxis a rip-off
• The Prague Post – News – Outcry as city approves controversial homeless plan
• The Prague Post – News – Mass killings suspect ‘still alive’
• The Prague Post – News – Marking a day that will live in infamy
• The Prague Post – News – World’s bat experts converge on Prague
• The Prague Post – Business – Highway billboards to come down
• The Prague Post – News – Mass grave found in Moravia
• The Prague Post – News – New chief for scandalized ÚSTR
• The Prague Post – News – Cleanup continues after floods
• The Prague Post – News – U.S. to charge European visitors $14 fee
• The Prague Post – News – U.S. help sought in Gripen probe
• The Prague Post – News – Gov’t split over over drunken driving law
• The Prague Post – News – Floods ravage north Bohemia
• The Prague Post – News – Budget cuts mean police layoffs
• The Prague Post – News – Embassy missions abroad to be cut
• The Prague Post – News – Millions of euro for beekeepers
• The Prague Post – News – Institute posts list of active spies
• The Prague Post – News – Kajínek murder case reopened
• The Prague Post – News – Scandal reignites Russian spy fears
• The Prague Post – News – Cathedral will charge admission