"I felt pride, shame, shock. But above all, adrenaline. And in a certain twisted sense, even a feeling of happiness," he says.
In an interview with Pavla Holcová, the editor-in-chief of investigace.cz, he speaks about his journalistic beginnings, as well as the major cases linked to corruption and Russian influence that he has worked on. He talks about how an academic, who originally wanted to focus on antisemitism in literature, became a reporter facing surveillance, disinformation, and attempts at discreditation.
You will learn what the life of a person looks like who knows that his communication is being wiretapped, that he is being watched during meetings with sources—and yet refuses to be broken. "The most important thing is not to go crazy. If you lose a cool head, you become a bad journalist—and you can't afford that," he says with a certain bitterness and slight humor.
This episode is a raw testimony about fear, anger, determination, and professional obsession. It is about what happens when an investigative journalist encounters a system that is democratic in name only.
