Ferdinand Peroutka Awards for outstanding journalism handed out

The Ferdinand Peroutka Awards for outstanding journalism were handed out in Prague on Thursday. Among this year’s recipients are economic columnist for the weekly Respekt Jan Macháček, Petruška Šustrová from the daily Lidové Noviny, and writer Pavel Kosatík.

The awards are named after Ferdinand Peroutka, one of the most significant figures of Czech journalism in the 20th century. He began his career in 1919 but left Czechsolovakia after the communist coup of 1948 and settled in New York.