Ekonews

Ekonews was established by two economic journalists, Martina Patočková and Veronika Němcová, in 2020. Ekonews covers business and ecology and explains how climate change affects the economy, including companies and people. The outlet also produces a podcast.

"Most companies promote themselves as green, but we do not listen only to what they say. There is much greenwashing, but we check the numbers. You can do business and act ecologically, but it will never be sustainable if it doesn't work economically. The numbers tell the truth," editor-in-chief Martina Patočková said.

According to her, ecology is unreported in the Czech Republic; it is not as mainstream as in Western Europe.

"The economy and business are what we know and enjoy. Almost everything now has a thin but growing green line, and that's why we decided to start a website that will describe environmental issues from this point of view," Patočková added. But she also clarified: "We are not activists. We are journalists with an economics background."

Patočková and Nemcova previously worked for the newspaper Mladá fronta DNES. After the media outlet was purchased in 2013 by politician Andrej Babiš, it was difficult to write about the economy and ecology as it became a conflict of interest for the politician. That is one of the reasons behind the creation of Ekonews.