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Chief editor of Full Moon Magazine, member of SoundCzech Board advisory

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Head of PR and marketing at SoundCzech, the official music office that would like to help Czech music develop. Many years on the route of journalism, PR, marketing, music and culture in general. In the past, working for Czech Radio 1, Brutal Assault, Médea, River Promotions, Obscure Promotion, E15, Aerofilms, Muzikus or Full Moon. Currently, for example, the Artu Kus festival, Headliner, Frontman.cz, several bands and projects and another thousand small things. If I'm not behind the podium, I may be standing on it. Or somewhere else.

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Music publicist, musician, traveler and photographer. At present, in addition to the UNI magazine, he contributes to Lidové noviny, the monthly magazines Harmonie and Rock & All and to the website of the Czech Radio Jazz station. He travels not only for music, he has traveled to a number of African countries, the Middle East, Indonesia, Indochina, India, China and part of Latin America, he has also visited Antarctica and Siberia. In the 1990s, he made a living as a musician, including a member of the band Domácí kapela, and released his solo album Shadows in Silence. He organized three exhibitions of photographs with music and travel themes.

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Editor of Headliner magazine

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Editor-in-Chief of the Opera Plus portal

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I was born in 1980 in Prague. I studied journalism and media studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences. During my studies, I started working in the supplements of Lidové noviny, where I eventually spent five years. This was followed by a one-year stop at MF Dnes. For seven years, I ran the music website of the media group Lagardére Active ČR.

I was a member of the editorial board of the Czech Newsweek, where I took care of the cultural section, then I edited culture on Aktuálně.cz for a year. I work on the Vltava as an editor and presenter of the show Vizitka.

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Owner and director of OPTIO CZ. He has been involved in DTP and print production since 1990, both in large companies, in advertising agencies and in his own studio. At present, he is mainly involved in leading the OPTIO CZ team and digitally publishing both his own music magazine Headliner and other client projects.

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He began his journalistic career in 2009 and, in addition to stable positions in Muzikus and Rock & All magazines, he also collaborated with Rock & Pop, Full Moon, Harmonie, HardRocker, Rock Hard and the English magazine Metal Hammer or the music portal The Aardvark. He is mainly engaged in interviews and his best-known guests included Adam Clayton (U2), Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica), Stewart Copeland (The Police), Richard Kruspe (Rammstein), Andrea Bocelli and Goran Bregović.

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Alex Švamberk is a Czech writer and journalist who originally graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Czech Technical University. However, he never devoted himself to this field, on the contrary, he decided to work for many newspapers and magazines. Initially, he focused on musical topics and for a long time contributed to the acclaimed music magazine "Muzikus". At present, however, Švamberk's focus is completely different and his articles can be read mainly on the Novinky.cz internet server, for which he works as a foreign editor. In this work, he focuses mainly on war conflicts in the Korean Peninsula, the Balkans, but also Ukraine and South Africa. However, he still focuses on music, especially in his literature, but also in reviews of contemporary music news, often of marginal genres (eg industrial or hard core). Švamberk published three books, two of which dealt mainly with the beginnings of the punk scene, the last one after the war in Korea, which took place in the 1950s and in which Czechoslovak soldiers were also deployed as part of a peacekeeping mission. So you can read from the author "Deployed in Korea", "No Future!", Or "Don't be fooled again".

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After an episode with a student radio program, he joined the then completely new Radio Proglas in 1995 and has been working as the head of the music department for the whole time. In addition to the musical dramaturgy of the all-day broadcast, he is in charge of a number of programs, including his author's weekly Listen, People! (in which he focuses on topics related to world music, jazz, folk and alternative music) or conducting musical interviews from the daily cycle How Do You Like It (in which he moderated thousands of interviews with musicians). He collaborates externally with the Czech Radio Jazz station, as a writing music publist he contributes to the Cultural Magazine UNI, Harmonie, the Catholic Weekly, the Polish magazine Twój Blues or the portal Brno - město hudby. He is a professional guarantor of the Anděl Awards in the Folk and Jazz genre categories. He is the author of a book interview with violinist Jan Hrubý. He is a member of the panel of European radio publicists World Music Charts Europe and in the autumn of 2020 he took over the leadership of this panel after its founder Johannes Theurer.

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