Tomáš Bouška
founder and chairman of the Journalism Incubator / tomas (@) novinarskyinkubator.cz
Tomáš Bouška works as a lecturer and manager of non-governmental projects and initiatives. He received his doctorate from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. He holds two master’s degrees (Högskolan Dalarna, Sweden and IPS FSV UK in Prague). Since 2003, his main area of interest has been the oral history of political prisoners who survived imprisonment in the 1950s in uranium. He is the founder and chairman of the volunteer
association Političtí vězni.cz . He is a co-author of the book Czechoslovak political prisoners. Oral history of the victims of communism , director of a documentary portrait of the political prisoner K.Ch. and author of a printed guide to the Jáchymov Hell Nature Trail . From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, then as head of communication and development of the Aspen Institute Central Europe and the Shoah Memorial in Prague (Památník Ticha). His current activities include the rescue of the Jáchymov “Chain Mill” . In 2024 he became a Comenius Alumni at the University of Groningen (NL).
Jan Pokrajac
project manager / jan (@) novinarskyinkubator.cz
Jan Pokrajac graduated from the Secondary Technical School of Electrical Engineering with a focus on automation and robotics. After graduating, he joined an IT company specializing in software development, where he worked in various roles for four years. He started as a tester and project support. Later, he worked his way up to the position of project manager. A year after joining the company, he began studying media studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. His studies focus on media theory, research methods, gender studies, and the history of Czech publishing and literature. His final thesis maps the media response to Alena Mornštajnová’s book
Les v důmě , which caused one of the biggest media scandals in contemporary Czech literature. His interests include playing the clarinet, taking photos with an analog camera, cooking, traveling, and reading.
Barbora Dvořáková
project manager, communications manager / bara (@) novinarskyinkubator.cz
After completing her secondary school studies at the Ostrov Gymnasium, she studied at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University. After moving to Prague, she started working as an assistant in the Senate of the Czech Republic and for a while also in a PR position in the STAN Senate Club. She also helped with the Media Education Weeks project under the One World program at schools of the People in Need organization. She studied news writing at the Higher Vocational School of Journalism, where she worked in the student editorial office of Generation 20. She wrote several articles for the former weekly Hrot and, as part of cooperation with the Journalism Incubator, also for
Drbna . She currently works as a volunteer in the initiative of the Political Prisoners.cz Association to save the Jáchymov “Chain Store”. In the project, she takes care of communication and production of popular educational events (meetings with supporters, the Çetízkárna Festival, the All Souls’ Day meeting).
Daniel Pařízek
office manager / daniel (@) novinarskyinkubator.cz
Daniel Pařízek studied for eight years at the Jaroslav Heyrovský Gymnasium in Prague. After graduating, he enrolled in the Communication Studies major with a focus on Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. He specializes primarily in political and political science topics and phenomena. His bachelor’s thesis focuses on comparing personality cults according to political regimes. He helped as a dramaturg at the student presidential debate of the Zavolíme project! He briefly worked as an intern on the Czech Radio internet server iRozhlas.cz. Since the age of fifteen, he has been actively working with children in summer or suburban camps and hobby groups. His interests include judo, playing the guitar, chess, music, and listening to political podcasts.
Lucie Černá
co-founder of the Journalism Incubator
Lucie Černá is an accredited trainer in solutions journalism. Before her maternity leave, she led a program at Transitions that promotes solutions journalism in Central and Eastern Europe, and coordinated activities related to supporting this type of journalism in more than 10 countries. She now works as a lecturer and mentor at Transitions, helping journalists in the Central and Eastern Europe region bring a solutions perspective to their journalistic practice. She has been working on the topic since 2017. In October 2019, she became a member of the LEDE Fellowship program of the New York-based Solutions Journalism Network. She previously worked for Ashoka and as a spokesperson for Greenpeace.
Tomáš Nídr
editor
Tomáš Nídr graduated in political science from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. He started as a student at MF DNES in 2001, working his way up to become a foreign correspondent and editor. In 2009, he switched to freelance journalism. He began publishing for Deník N, Hospodářské noviny, as well as for the economic news Euro and the magazine Koktejl. His analyses and reports deal with topics from Latin America and Africa.