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Vít Pohanka

Journalist

Telephone   + 420 779 970 883

Email vit@vitpohanka.com
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ABOUT ME

I am a journalist working for Radio Prague International.  I also produce and record radio documentaries and occasionally television programs and audio guides mainly about the United States. From time to time, I do some guiding myself, most often in North America and my home country of Czechia. 

My life motto: be curious!

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My story

I was born in the Vysočina region of Czechia and spent my childhood and part of my youth there. Then I studied, worked, and lived elsewhere in the Czech Republic and abroad, the longest period of time in the United States. In 2017, I returned to the Vysočina region because it is my home, although I often still have to travel around the Czech Republic and abroad for work.

I studied Czech and English in Olomouc in the 1980s, and for a few years I made my living teaching and organizing language courses, but since 1994 I have been a journalist.

I recently calculated that, quite incredibly,  I lived at 27 addresses in 6 countries on two continents. And by that, I mean longer-term addresses where I would receive mail, I paid electricity, telephone, and other bills, not just some temporary ones for a few days.  So, I really traveled a lot and with a few exceptions, it was always for work. 

I am very lucky that my wife Marcela has always been there for me, tolerated my eternal wandering around the world, and is always patient.

My son Vojta (22) and daughter Klárka (15) make me very happy. They are great students and friendly young people. 

I like photography, videography, walking and jogging in the countryside, jumping rope, and also skydiving: I completed 232 jumps, enjoyed them very much, and survived them in good health. 

EMPLOYMENT

2024– ...

Redaktor, anglická redakce Radio Prague International

Česká republika

2014–2017

2013–2014

2008–2013

2006-2007

2002-2005

1999-2002

2017 – present

Freelance journalist

Czech Republic

Czech Radio Correspondent, for Poland, and the Baltic Republics

Warsaw

Chief News Editor

Czech radio

Prague, Czech Republic

Czech Radio Correspondent, USA

Washington, DC

Czech Radio correspondent to the EU and NATO

Brussels, Belgium

Reporter, foreign newsdesk

Czech radio

Prague, Czech Republic

Producer and editor

BBC World Service

Prague, Czech Republic, London, GB

1996-1999

Project officer

UNESCO

Paris, FR

1994-1996

Producer

Czech television

Prague, Czech Republic

1990-1994

Self-employed, organization and language teaching  Cloverleaf Ltd.

Olomouc and Ostrava, Czech Republic

EDUCATION

Gymnasium Žďár nad Sázavou

 

Palacky university

Master's degree, Czech and English

Olomouc

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Twenty-five years of married life with my wife Marcela, which produced a son, Vojtěch, and a daughter, Klára.

  • Assignment as a correspondent in the United States for almost six years.

  • Several years of work at UNESCO and the BBC World Service.

  • Survival of kidnapping near Fallujah in Iraq in 2004.

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CONTACT

Telephone +420 779 970 883

Email vit@vitpohanka.com

Address  Žďár nad Sázavou, Vysočina

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