The former commentator for various newspapers, who worked with Czech Radio and Czech Television, died on Saturday after a serious illness, the syndicate said on its website. Černý has been a member of the Syndicate of Journalists since its inception in 1990, becoming its chairman in 2009. As the editor of the foreign editorial office of Hospodářské noviny in 2006, he received the Ferdinand Peroutka Award.
Černý graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism.
At the time of normalization in the field, he could not find a job because of his father’s anti-regime stances, journalist of the Prague Spring. That’s why he worked as a night watchman in the National Gallery, in St. Agnes Monastery and as a worker in the company Geodézie.
After the Velvet Revolution, he joined the editorial office Free speech, for which he has written since the 1980s. In the 90s he was at the birth of the renewed Lidové noviny. In the second half of the 90s. acted in the weekly Týden.
