Meenal Thakur is a project manager, solutions journalism trainer and former journalist. She currently divides her time between Prague-based Transitions where she is developing and managing solutions journalism programmes in Central and Eastern Europe and Dart Center Europe where she is supporting the growth and new partnerships of the organisation. Prior to

Radiodays Europe Prague 2023  The Prague Congress Centre has a rich history. "The construction of a new building with a multilateral social mission of national significance was approved on February 27, 1975." The building is grand in scale and a perfect venue for this year's Radiodays Europe.  Locate at: Prague Congress Centre, 5. května 1640/65, 140 21

Jeremy Druker is the executive director of Transitions (TOL), one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading media development organizations, and editor in chief of TOL's flagship publication, Transitions, which focuses on solutions journalism in CEE. He has led dozens of workshops on solutions journalism across Central and Eastern Europe and co-authored an online course on

In the Finale of Radiodays Europe 2022 it was announced that Prague would be the host city for this now three-day event, in 2023, 26 – 28 March.  Peter Niegel, General Manager of Radiodays Europe said, “We are happy that next year we are going to Prague to celebrate the 100th birthday of Czech

Thomas Korponay-Pfeifer (Programme Director of Radio 88.6) is giving five commandments for Programme Directors.  The first is to always remember station values and ensure everyone is on the same page.  Faith in your people is important too; let your team do their job, trust your talent and do not micromanage.  A lack of failure indicates

In the last few years technology in radio has drastically improved. Once we didn’t even have audio editing software, now we have presenters doing shows from home.    New technology, descript, allows you to edit a transcription of audio and those edits appear in the audio file. It even allows you to change words

One of the things that both big and small companies are all thinking about is how to digitise radio and audio content says Sam Bonham (Podcast Editor at BBC). Vincent Benveniste (CEO of DAVID Systems) points out the Øresund Bridge and how it's used as a connecting lifeline between two countries. We

Music classics never get old. From Bohemian Rhapsody to Yesterday, classics remain on listeners' playlists and broadcast on radio. Sean Ross in this session showed how old and classic hits took over the radio. The truth is that the classics didn't just stay in the memory of the last century. Classics are increasingly broadcast

Patricia Sonius, Head of Research & Development at STER, notes that when a brand spends money on media only 5% of that goes to radio despite it making up a much higher percentage of the media people consume.  Her research shows that media and marketing professionals don’t understand how beneficial radio can be,

In this detailed session, James Cridland, the Radio Futurologist and Editor of Podnews, chatted with Johan Seidefors, the Nordic Head of Content at Spotify.  Johan looks after both podcasts and music for the streaming giant. He said that he said that that makes sense, especially in a smaller market like the Nordics. "We