Media Hungry for news from home? You shouldn’t have a problem finding English-language newspapers and magazines on newsstands in the city center. The best place to look is at the two newsstands at the bottom of Wenceslas Square – they definitely have the best selection. Generally newspapers are a day old, but The Guardian – printed in Frankfurt – usually arrives on Prague newsstands by mid-morning, day of publication. Unless you have cable or satellite, TV is a bit trickier. Basically your only choice is EuroNews, which comes on once a day on the CT-2 station, although times vary. (Supposedly they also show news from the BBC weekday mornings at 8am and weekend mornings at 7am, but we’ve never been up early enough to confirm it.) For radio news, BBC World Service can be picked up loud and clear on 101.1 FM. As far as local news is concerned, there are a few options. Since the early ‘90s, Prague has seen around a billion expat publications bite the dust for one reason or another (a partial summary of these can be found here http://www.think.cz/issue/50/1.html.) The best of these was probably the Prague Pill, the archives of which can be found online at www.prague.tv/pill. Today, the best are probably the bilingual Think Again (www.thinkagain.cz) and the Provokator (www.provokator.org), both available for free around town in various establishments where tourists and expats congregate. The Prague Post (www.praguepost.cz) is widely despised by the expat community, and is basically staffed by hack reporters who couldn’t get real jobs back in the States, where most of them come from. You’re much better off reading it online than paying their audacious 50 CZK asking price. Better yet, check out the news portals at www.prague.tv and www.praguemonitor.com.
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