Discussions were led in the assembly hall about how reporting has changed over the past thirty years
The 19th November 2019 saw discussions being held in the assembly hall of the Building of Common Education on how reporting has changed over the past thirty years. The Philosophical Faculty of the UHK and Czech Television hosted a panel discussion. It was part of a series of lectures overseen by Czech Television referred to as 1989–2019: 30 Years of Freedom of Media.
Václav Moravec (ČT24 anchorman), Hana Andělová (Czech Television news script editor), Radomír Tichý (archaeologist and participant in the November 1989 events) and Jiří Sova (former manager of the Civic Forum) participated in the debate on the transformation of reporting. Pavlína Springerová, Vice-Rector of the University of Hradec Králové, moderated the debate.
The debate went on for almost ninety minutes. Topics included how reporting and publicly-owned media have changed, how freedom of speech is understood, and on-line behaviour and social networking as a new phenomenon. And the entire debate focused on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the totalitarian regime and the importance of the principle of freedom of speech while keeping in mind the independence of publicly-owned media.
