The diploma thesis "Foreign Journalists of Czech Public Media: Comparison of the Conditions for execution of Profession" describes, maps and compares conditions for the work and life of permanent foreign journalists of public media institutions in the Czech Republic. These institutions are Czech Television, Czech Radio and Czech News Agency. After defining terms of public media, it continues by anchoring the public media in Czech legal system, a short description of history of each medium in context of foreign journalists, and the costs of operating a journalist network. Then it defines a journalist with regards to his or her profession and the necessary assumptions for doing such work. Later, foreign journalists are divided into several categories - permanent, ad hoc, freelancer, and war correspondent. Next, an operative part based on questionnaires had been sent to journalists and on two personal interviews with heads of the foreign editorial staffs of Czech Television and Czech Radio. The response rate to the questionnaires was over 60%. It investigated what kind of education current foreign correspondents have, as well as which languages they speak, their journalism career and experiences, what kind of equipment they have worked with, how often they are in contact with their central editorial...

La tesi si inserisce nella discussione intorno al quadro del sistema politico italiano in Germania e analizza le modalità secondo le quali viene trattata la politica italiana nella stampa tedesca “di qualità” nel periodo della cosiddetta “Seconda Repubblica”. Oltre a presentare l’immagine delle istituzioni, dei partiti e dei candidati alle elezioni politiche nei media tedeschi, il lavoro illustra l’origine della percezione e i processi comunicativi che riducono la complessità della realtà nella cronaca politica estera basandosi sulle teorie di gatekeeping, news bias, news values e framing. L’analisi del lavoro quotidiano dei comunicatori mediali (ca. 90 interviste e questionari) e la content analysis di 1.024 articoli mostrano che il quadro del sistema politico italiano nella stampa tedesca non si caratterizza tanto per una valutazione negativa della politica italiana tout court, quanto piuttosto per una forte personalizzazione – con valutazioni costantemente aggiornate – intorno alle figure dei leader politici. La tesi dimostra infine come, diversamente da quanto avviene per le questioni di politica interna, l’orientamento politico delle testate non condizioni fortemente la cronaca politica estera, bensì come ai corrispondenti venga lasciata estrema libertà nella mediazione culturale tra Italia e Germania e nella valutazione dei fatti e personaggi che compongono il complesso panorama politico italiano. / In the ongoing discourse about Italy's political image in Germany, the dissertation adds to the discussion the analysis of the modalities about how the present-day image of Italy's political system is handled in the German media during the so-called “Second Republic”. More than the illustration of Italy´s political institutions, parties and leader images in German media, the paper consults theories of gatekeeping, news bias, news values, and framing handles with the origins of the perception and in particular with the communication processes that reduce the accuracy in political foreign news. The analysis of journalist's daily work through 90 interviews / questionnaires and a content analysis of 1.024 newspaper articles shows that the media image of Italy's political system is not so much characterized as permanently negative as it is a never-ending personalization of Italy's political leaders. Finally, the dissertation shows the political orientation of newspapers in contrast to national news doesn't significantly influence foreign news. Moreover it was demonstrated the processes of perception and communication that take place in foreign news is determinant. Under these restrictions the correspondents are able to use the scope of development for writing articles and judging the events and the characters of Italy's political system.