Department of Journalism and Media Studies Archives - Anglo-American University in Prague /directory-school/department-of-journalism-and-media-studies/ is a top private university in Czech Republic offering dual accredited bachelor and master level programs in English across Business, International Relations, Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Science, Journalism, Media Studies, Visual Arts and Law. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:57:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Kateřina Šantúrová /directory/katerina-santurova/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:06:31 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=34405 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 […]

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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 .

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Michael Kahn /directory/michael-kahn/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:12:18 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=15591 Michael Kahn is a senior correspondent for Reuters based in Prague where he writes long-forms business stories across central and southeastern Europe. He has worked for Reuters in Washington D.C., San Francisco, London, and Prague covering a wide range of topics from economics and politics to health, science, and energy. 

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Michael Kahn is a senior correspondent for Reuters based in Prague where he writes long-forms business stories across central and southeastern Europe. He has worked for Reuters in Washington D.C., San Francisco, London, and Prague covering a wide range of topics from economics and politics to health, science, and energy. 

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David Vaughan /directory/david-vaughan/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:17:35 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=12952 David Vaughan is a freelance writer, broadcaster, journalist and university lecturer.  His novel Slyšte můj hlas (2014) won the Czech Book Prize readers’ award in 2015. The book, which draws from real events, is set in Prague in the run-up to World War II. The author also adapted the story as a radio drama that […]

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David Vaughan is a freelance writer, broadcaster, journalist and university lecturer. 

His novel Slyšte můj hlas (2014) won the Czech Book Prize readers’ award in 2015. The book, which draws from real events, is set in Prague in the run-up to World War II. The author also adapted the story as a radio drama that was serialized by Czech Radio and released as a DVD.  The English version of the novel was published as Hear My Voice (2019) by Jantar Publishing in London.

His previous book Battle for the Airwaves (2008) is a study of the role of the media – and radio in particular – during the period of the “Munich Crisis” of September 1938.

As a broadcaster, David Vaughan has a long history of working with Czech Radio and the BBC.  For eight years he was editor-in-chief of Radio Prague, the international service of Czech Radio, and prior to that he was the Prague correspondent of the BBC, travelling widely in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine.  He has won Czech and international awards for his work in radio journalism, documentary-making and radio drama in English and Czech. He directed the first English-language production in of Václav Havel’s only radio play Guardian Angel for Czech Radio (2004).  He is also the author of several documentary and drama-documentary podcasts for Czech Radio, most recently No Night So Dark (2021) which tells the story of a Czech Jewish family over 150 years. Their story was also the subject of an exhibition, which he wrote and curated for Prague’s Winternitz Villa in 2020. The exhibition has since been shown in Berlin and at the Czech Centre in Munich.

David Vaughan studied Modern Languages (Master of Arts, French and German) at Oxford University (Balliol College).

He is married with two grown-up children and lives in Prague. 

Courses Taught

Media Ethics, History of Media, Radio Broadcasting, and Feature Writing.

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MgA. Björn Steinz /directory/bjorn-steinz/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 10:37:10 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1846 Born in Germany, Björn Steinz, began at an early age to photograph for a local newspaper in his hometown of Oberursel close to Frankfurt am Main. Having worked as a volunteer in a refugee camps during the war in former Yugoslavia and travelling for several months in Latin America, he decided to study photography, earning […]

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Born in Germany, Björn Steinz, began at an early age to photograph for a local newspaper in his hometown of Oberursel close to Frankfurt am Main. Having worked as a volunteer in a refugee camps during the war in former Yugoslavia and travelling for several months in Latin America, he decided to study photography, earning Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees at the Department of Photography at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). After several years freelancing and teaching in Germany and the Czech Republic, he spent two years as Assistant Professor at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. Since his return, he has been based in Prague in Czech Republic, now his home. His interest in photography primarily focuses on documentary photography, photojournalism and portraiture. His work has been published by Du, Die Zeit, The Financial Times, Geo Special, The Independent, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Open Society Foundations, National Geographic and by other clients. Björn is working on several long-term photography projects, the majority of which are within a social content and often connected to Roma communities all over Europe. He has been teaching Documentary Photography and Visual Culture at the Anglo-American University in Prague since 2012. Björn is represented by Panos Pictures in London.

Specializations

Documentary Photography, Visual Culture, Photojournalism, History of Photography, Visual Communication

Publications & Other Activities

  • Panos Pictures, London; National Geographic, Wahington DC; Open Society Foundations,
  • New York; Polyglott, Hamburg; dpa (German Press Agency), Frankfurt; FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Frankfurt;
  • Sueddeutsche Zeitung, München; Die Welt, Berlin; Stern, Hamburg; NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Zürich;
  • The Financial Times, Hamburg; Newsweek Japan, Tokyo; DU – Das Kulturmagazin, Zürich; Elle Men China, Beijing; Instinkt, Prague; Tyden,
  • Prague Reflex, Prague; Die Zeit, Hamburg; Der Spiegel, Hamburg; ADAC Reisemagazin, München

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Seth Rogoff /directory/seth-rogoff/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:55:40 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1807 Seth Rogoff is a novelist and scholar of media studies, literature, and cultural analysis. He is the author of the novels First, the Raven: a Preface (Sagging Meniscus Press 2017), Thin Rising Vapors (SMP 2018), and the forthcoming The Kirschbaum Lectures (2023). In 2021, Seth published the book The Politics of the Dreamscape (Palgrave), which focuses on the cultural history, literary theory, and politics […]

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Seth Rogoff is a novelist and scholar of media studies, literature, and cultural analysis. He is the author of the novels First, the Raven: a Preface (Sagging Meniscus Press 2017), Thin Rising Vapors (SMP 2018), and the forthcoming The Kirschbaum Lectures (2023). In 2021, Seth published the book The Politics of the Dreamscape (Palgrave), which focuses on the cultural history, literary theory, and politics of dreams and dream interpretation. Currently, Seth is finishing a collaboration with a former NBA basketball player on the intersection of sports, race, and media. The book is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in 2023. Seth’s shorter work has appeared in many journals, including BODYCagibiEpiphanyEclectica, and Rain Taxi. He has translated works by Franz Kafka, including the novel The Castle (Vitalis 2007). He has received grants from Duke University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Humanities Council, and the University of Amsterdam. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing in Berlin, Germany in 2006-2007. In addition to his creative and scholarly work, he is a passionate environmentalist and works as a freelance analyst and writer for nonprofit environmental organizations. Seth earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He received a MA in European Intellectual History from Duke University and a BA in the interdisciplinary program Literature and History from Washington University in St. Louis. 

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Douglas Arellanes, B.A. /directory/douglas-arellanes/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:19:27 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1612 Douglas Arellanes is a technologist, broadcaster, and software developer focusing on innovative technology solutions for journalism. A co-founder of the Czech nonprofit institute Sourcefabric, Arellanes has won several awards for his technology solutions with news organizations in developing countries. He is a longtime moderator on Radio 1 in Prague, and has translated several books from […]

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Douglas Arellanes is a technologist, broadcaster, and software developer focusing on innovative technology solutions for journalism. A co-founder of the Czech nonprofit institute Sourcefabric, Arellanes has won several awards for his technology solutions with news organizations in developing countries. He is a longtime moderator on Radio 1 in Prague, and has translated several books from Czech to English, including Economics of Good and Evil by Tomáš Sedláček (Oxford Press, 2011).

Arellanes holds a bachelor’s degree in book arts from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Mary Angiolillo, Ph.D. /directory/mary-angiolillo/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:34:13 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1607 Angiolillo earned her Masters of Philosophy from Marquette University and a PhD in Theatre Arts from Northwestern University. She is twice recipient of a Fulbright Program grant, which afforded her the opportunity to conduct research in Paris and teach in Prague. For 30 years, Angiolillo has been teaching dramatic art and communication in the form […]

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Angiolillo earned her Masters of Philosophy from Marquette University and a PhD in Theatre Arts from Northwestern University. She is twice recipient of a Fulbright Program grant, which afforded her the opportunity to conduct research in Paris and teach in Prague.

For 30 years, Angiolillo has been teaching dramatic art and communication in the form of acting, short form screenwriting, dramatic literature, creative dramatics, improvisation, and public speaking. She has likewise worked as a theatre director in Paris, Prague, and Chicago, and acted in both theatre and film, while serving as an acting coach on various films. Angiolillo currently teaches public speaking at .

Specializations

communication, public speaking, theater arts, film studies

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Theodore A. Turnau, Ph.D., M.Div. /directory/theodore-a-turnau-ph-d-m-div/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:07:21 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1294 Ted was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in rural Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English and has an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Carolyn, have lived in Prague and taught at since 1999.Ted teaches classes in culture, media, and […]

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Ted was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in rural Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English and has an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Carolyn, have lived in Prague and taught at since 1999.Ted teaches classes in culture, media, and religious studies, and serves as the chair of Arts, Culture, and Literature.

He is the author of four books (inter alia): 

  • Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective (2012)
  • The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage Their World for Christ (with E. Stephen Burnett and Jared Moore, 2020)
  • Oasis of Imagination: Engaging Our World through a Better Creativity (2023)
  • Imagination Manifesto: A Call to Plant Oases of Imagination (with Ruth Naomi Floyd, 2023).

Ted and Carolyn have three grown children and four grown cats. He enjoys jazz, blues, and roots music; good film and television; American football; F1 racing; samurai and kaiju movies; and anime.

Specializations

culture studies, popular culture, religion, worldview, fandom

Publications & Other Activities

  • “Dialogues Concerning Cultural Engagement,” essay in two parts, Foundations 70 (Spring 2016) and 71 (Fall 2016). Part one available online at – article-2—dialogues-concerning-cultural-engagement-part-one. “
  • Displacing the Sacred: Thoughts on the Secularizing Influence in Hollywood,” Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology 64 (Spring 2013). Available online in March 2013 at — displacing-the-sacred-thoughts-on-the-secularising-influence-ofhollywood.
  • Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective, Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 346 pp., May 2012. “Popular Culture, Apologetics, and the Discourse of Desire,” Cultural Encounters 8:2 (Winter 2012): 25-46.
  • “On Being Wise as Serpents: Why and How Christians Should Engage Popular Culture,” The Evangelical Magazine (Evangelical Movement of 5 Wales), September/October 2010. Available online at (accessed 13th November, 2010).
  • “Review of Eyes Wide Open: Searching for God in Popular Culture,” Journal of Popular Culture vol. 42, no. 3 (June 2009): 581-83.
  • “Life in the Twittersphere,” The Gospel and Culture Project website, April 2009 (now defunct). Archived online at .
  • “Popular Cultural ‘Worlds’ As Alternative Religions,“ Christian Scholar’s Review vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2008): 323-45.
  • “Jack Be Evil, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of ’24’”, in Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity, edited by Margaret Sönser Breen (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005): 109-25.
  • “Inflecting the World: Popular Culture and the Perception of Evil.” The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 38, no. 2 (November, 2004): 384-96.
  • “Equipping Students to Engage Popular Culture.” Article in The Word of God for the Academy in Contemporary Culture(s). Edited by John B. Hulst. Budapest, Hungary: Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Faculty of Theology, 2003: 135-57.
  • “Reflecting Theologically on Popular Culture as Meaningful: The Role of Sin, Grace, and General Revelation,” Calvin Theological Journal, 37, no. 2 (November 2002): 270-296. Available online at the Ransom Fellowship
  • “Speaking in a Broken Tongue: Postmodernism, Principled Pluralism, and the Rehabilitation of Public Moral Discourse.”Westminster Theological Journal 56 (Spring 1994): 345-77.

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Robert Warren, M.A. /directory/robert-warren-m-a/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:38:00 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1274 Robert is an English-American lecturer and researcher of geopolitics and international relations. Heteaches classes in political geography, political theory, media theory, and postcolonial international relations. He also runs yearly international volunteering/research projects for students, travelingto Brazil, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Robert is an active member of the community, screening films for students […]

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Robert is an English-American lecturer and researcher of geopolitics and international relations. Heteaches classes in political geography, political theory, media theory, and postcolonial international relations. He also runs yearly international volunteering/research projects for students, travelingto Brazil, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Robert is an active member of the community, screening films for students of the Film Club and organizing political discussions for the School of International Relationsand Diplomacy’s Professors in the Pub series.

Courses

Political Geography (IRS 250), Postcolonial International Relations (IRS 375/675),Media in aDemocracy (JRN 220),Intro to Politics (POS 101), International Experience Project (MGT 314/514)

Specializations

political geography (human geography, geopolitics, international relations),

postcolonial statecraft (Westphalianism, nation-building, neo-imperialism, state corruption, “ungovernedspaces,” postcolonial separatism, civil war, interventionism)

critical theory (postcolonial theory, Marxism/neo-Marxism, cultural hegemony, hybridity, power/knowledge)

media theory (survival of the fourth estate: digital information dissemination, meta data analytics, surveillance capitalism, AI/machine-learning)

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Tony Ozuna, M.A. /directory/tony-ozuna-m-a/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:20:53 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=1149 Tony Ozuna is an American (born in Los Angeles), living in Europe since the early 1990s. He joined the faculty of Anglo-American College (later to be University) in 1995 and then began working full-time in administration in 1998 as Coordinator of the School of Humanities. His teaching experience includes Academic Writing for Ph.D. students at […]

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Tony Ozuna is an American (born in Los Angeles), living in Europe since the early 1990s. He joined the faculty of Anglo-American College (later to be University) in 1995 and then began working full-time in administration in 1998 as Coordinator of the School of Humanities. His teaching experience includes Academic Writing for Ph.D. students at CERGE-EI, the Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education, of Charles University. From 1998-2004, he was Coordinator (and periodically Acting Chair) of the School of Humanities. In 2004, he became Head of the Journalism program, while continuing as the Coordinator of the School of Humanities. After the accreditation of the Journalism program, in 2010, he became Associate Dean for the newly created School of Journalism, as well as for the School of Humanities & Social Sciences. In 2009, he initiated for a contemporary art gallery “art SPACE” (part of the Knights of Malta campus at Lazenska 2), and this activity to promote an art community at continues till this time as an “outdoor” exhibit space in the courtyard of the Thurn und Taxis palace. In 2014, after the accreditation of the Visual Art Studies program, he managed three bachelor’s programs and two MA programs as Associate Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences and the School of Journalism. In 2018, he became Associate Dean of the newly created School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts (BA programs in Journalism and in Visual Art Studies). He was Dean of the School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts till 2022. Since February 2023, he is Art Director of the School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts.

Before joining , he worked as editor-in-chief and co-founder of Yazzyk Magazine, an English language literary and arts publication that focused on contemporary Czech fiction and poetry in translation. He studied Politics with an emphasis on Public Policy for an M.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and after finishing that program he worked as an academic researcher for the California Policy Seminar (UC Berkeley) and research assistant at UCSB for a project on Mass Media and Hispanic Politics. He earned his B.A. degree in Politics from the University of California, Irvine. Tony Ozuna is a writer (cultural journalist, essayist, fiction and non-fiction) and affiliated with publications including Umelec International, an arts magazine which published in four languages (Czech, English, German, and Spanish), Yazzyk, the Prague Post, and more recently as Senior Writer for Jazz in Europe, All About Jazz, Transitions, and previously for Czech press, Hospodářské noviny.

Specializations

Jazz, Contemporary Art

Publications & Other Activities

  • Rituals and Sacred Spaces, group show with artists Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo, Rafani, Veronika Richterova, Jan Petranek, Drew Martin, and Natalia Vasquez (GALERIE CALIFIA, HORAŽĎOVICE, 1. 8.–19. 9, 20012) 
  • The Freak Show, group show with artists Veronika Bromova, Josef Bolf, Doro Krol, Lenka Vitkova, Marie Hladikova, Clint Takeda, Jolana Rucharova, and Drew Martin
  • GALERIE CALIFIA, HORAŽĎOVICE, 21. 8.–31. 10, 2009, 
  • The Freak Show II, group show with Veronika Bromova, Josef Bolf, Lenka Klodova, Clint Takeda, Lenka Vitkova, Marie Hladikova, Jolana Rucharova, and Drew Martin, A.M. 180, PRAGUE, 13.8.–27.9.2010
  • “Censor This!” Umělec, volume 14, 2-2010
  • “El Czechano” The Return of Král Majáles. Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990–2010. An Anthology. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2010. 621–645. Print.
  • “21st Century Czech Decadence”, Umělec Live, March 2–June 9, 2010
  • “1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future?”, Umělec Live, October 9, 2009–February 7, 2010
  • “Muz Bez Korenu”, Los Angeles Hosti Vystavu Znameho Ceskeho Fotografa Josefa Koudelky. Expozice Pote Poputuje Do Madridu. Hospodarske Noviny, Kultura, Ledna 2015, 

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