The Prague Post was an English language newspaper covering the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe which published its first weekly issue on October 1, 1991.
[10][11] Together with Monroe Luther, an investor from Houston, Texas, they formed Lion's Share Group, a privately held, Czech limited-liability company (spol s r.o.)
The mission of The Prague Post was simple and direct: to publish the best possible English-language newspaper for and about the rapidly changing Czechoslovakia and more broadly, Central Europe.
Alan Levy, a foreign correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and author of So Many Heroes, an eyewitness account of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, was hired as the Founding Editor-in-Chief.
[12] The original staff hired by Levy included former reporters and editors from a wide range of magazines and daily newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Union, The New York Review of Books, Business International, the Grinnell Herald-Register, Fortune magazine and the Tampa Tribune.
The first paper covered news and business, offered a weekly calendar of listings and included a regular pub guide.
The paper underwent extensive redesign, increased to 24 pages, switched street delivery days from Tuesdays to Wednesdays and moved printing operations to Frankfurt, Germany, on 18 November 1992.
This enabled it to offer color capability to advertisers, higher quality print resolution and more timely international distribution.
An additional suite of rooms was added to the offices at Politických vězňů and the staff continued to expand, along with the company's investment in computers and publishing equipment.
The Prague Post launched special pullout sections on 1 September 1993: "Money & Markets," "Travel & Leisure" and "Real Estate."
The remaining week(s) of each month were filled with a series of special topics, including "Computers & Technology", "The Modern Office", "Human Resources" and "Fashion."
1994 The Prague Post underwent a significant redesign on January 19, 1994, transforming the second section into the tabloid-size pullout "Night & Day".
It also introduced several new additions such as the Service Page, Ask Eva (an advice column), My Gene Pool (a cartoon strip) and reviews.
The front section of the paper, consisting of news, business, sports and opinion also received a design improvement at this time.
1996 The Prague Post celebrated its 5th anniversary on 28 September 1996, with a black-tie, gala evening at Národní Dům na Vinohradech, hosted by Publisher Lisa Frankenberg, and attended by over 1,000 guests with dignitaries, including five ambassadors, past and present employees and clients.
This Gala event was a memorable evening, aptly marking a significant occasion in the life of the newspaper and its importance in the market.
Lisa Frankenberg was accepted to Harvard Business School in Boston, and promoted Advertising Director Coleen Nelson to General Manager to take over the day-to-day operations of the newspaper.
2000 Since its strong debut, The Prague Post has attracted much international media coverage, with articles about the paper and its staff appearing in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Fortune, The Columbia Journalism Review, Advertising Age, The European and Telegraph of London.
Two weeks later, The Prague Post said goodbye to its founding editor-in-chief in a public memorial service attended by numerous personalities of Czech political, business and cultural life.
2005 The company also worked toward improving the quality of the paper and the services provided, including the rest of its publishing portfolio – the Book of Lists and Dining Out Guide.
Former and current staff were recognized on the night for their contributions to the development and growth of the Czech Republic's oldest and most popular English-language newspaper.
[14] 2010 The Prague Post Blogs section was launched, offering additional content not published in the newspaper on topics including politics, food, film, books, music, news and education.
“It is necessary to reflect our progressive reporting style from various fields in the layout," he said, adding “we are very proud of Caroline Wren's work.” [17] In 2010, the paper won Best Sectional Front Page at the same event for its Tempo cover story on guerrilla knitting, "Going Rogue".
He is the author of Pink Tanks & Velvet Hangovers (North Atlantic Books/Frog Ltd) and bureau chief for Bloomberg News in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and an editor for Eastern Europe.
She presently writes on Central and Eastern Europe for The New York Times, USA Today and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
[34] He is currently a resident of Prague where he runs his own wedding & portrait business https://www.kurtvinion.com in addition to guest lecturing at local universities.
Since 1999 he has been the Founder and CEO of BarristerBooks, Inc., the entity which operates the Internet's largest network of independent legal academic bookstores.
Originally the PPF published a weekly column, "Networking," which was the only source of news and information about the newly developing Czech Civil Society and non-profit sector.
It also provided bi-weekly English-language education programs based on The Prague Post newspaper for secondary schools throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia.