Kateřina Šantúrová (Zachovalová)

Kateřina Šantúrová (Zachovalová) has been a journalist based in Prague for over two decades, working in English and Czech for various media outlets. She earned her degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Charles University. 

Šantúrová covered Czech and Slovak news for the English-language service of Deutsche-Presse Agentur (dpa) and was Time Magazine’s stringer in the Czech Republic. She wrote for Eastern Approaches, The Economist’s blog on Central and Eastern Europe, and the Economist Espresso—the magazine’s daily morning briefing.

As a senior reporter at the Czech edition of Newsweek, she received the 2015 Journalism Prize for her cover story on methamphetamines. Šantúrová was a foreign-language interview editor at DVTV, a Prague-based, award-winning online television channel, and she worked as a reporter at the Hospodářské noviny business daily, Ekonom weekly, and the Czech edition of Bloomberg Businessweek.

Šantúrová also gained experience in international education through opening the American Councils office in Prague and ran the US-government Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) high school exchange program in the Czech Republic. She now works as a fact-checking journalist with Agence France-Presse and an adjunct lecturer at AAU.