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Filip Láb, PhD, is a lecturer at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague. He received both a Master‘s degree and PhD from the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He also holds a Master´s degree in Media Studies from the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague.Sandra Štefaniková is the EJO’s Czech web editor and a PhD candidate of media studies at Charles University in Prague. Sandra is a member of the European Communication and Research Association (ECREA). Currently, she is working on her doctorate thesis dealing with the relationship between media, culture, and political authorities in the non-democratic political systems. At the same time, she is working on research concerning the transformation of Czech photojournalism in the last twenty years. In edition to her academic career she has been working as a journalist for Czech online daily Aktualne.cz since 2011.