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New Prodata Search Criteria

THE PRODATA DATABASE OF COMPANIES ADDS NEW SEARCH CRITERIA.
We are always striving to increase comfort and navigability of our database. Therefore, to the traditional company name, name of an individual, business identification number, and many other categories, we have added the following criteria:

• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
• TURNOVER
• ECONOMIC RESULTS
• AREA OF ACTIVITY
• REGIONS AND DISTRICTS

Seminar on the Infobank

PRODATA DATABASE OF COMPANIES ON OCTOBER 26, 2004 AT 10:00 A.M.
We look forward to your visit to our headquarters at CTK, Opletalova 5, Prague 1. If you are interested in participating, please notify us at docekalova@mail.ctk.cz.
Participation is free of charge.
We also offer holding seminars on the Infobank for corporate clients. We will tailor the topic, time and place of the seminar to the client’s needs. (tel.: +420 222 098 326)

A New Documentary Category: Culture

We have added culture as a new category in the World documentary database in CTK’s Infobank. This category includes several interesting documents, such as a list of the world’s main orchestras or a list of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

CTK’s Documentary Databases: Anniversary Database

NEWS FROM CTK IS BASED ON MANY SOURCES OF INFORMATION, BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL. WE THEN ADD RELATED INFORMATION, SUCH AS HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL OR GEOPOLITICAL FACTS TO THE LATEST NEWS.
CTK uses its own constantly updated databases, which were created in 1996 by transferring information in paper files into electronic form. The paper files were meant for internal purposes only, but putting them into electronic form gave way to the opportunity to offer this information to the public. The documentary database offers a cross section of a variety of information. Today, we would like to present the Anniversary database, which, like all the other documentary databases, is available over the Internet in CTK’s Infobank.

The Anniversary database offers a unique point of view on the world, the past and the present from the perspective of various areas of human activity. For example, try entering today’s date in a query and you may be surprised at the amount of important events connected with this date. Anniversaries are a tool when looking for historical contexts and offer a guide as to what to write when and what important events to commemorate. The Anniversary database received its name from its original purpose: to mark the date of the birth or death of an important political, cultural or societal figure or to mark the signing of an important treaty, formation of an important group, etc.
The database can be searched using a concrete date and year, or only a day of the month, as well as full text searches of each entry; according to names, for example. The database is updated daily and is divided into domestic and foreign sections.

From the History of CTK – The First News Report

MANY JOURNALISTS REMEMBER OCTOBER 28, 1918 AS THE BIRTH OF NEWS AGENCY REPORTING IN THE CZECH LANDS, WHEN THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEWS AGENCY (CTK) WAS BORN ON THE SAME DAY AS THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
A look into the documents of the time shows Karel Mečíř, Jan Hajšman and Cyril Dušek as the grandfathers of Czech agency journalism, but it has been shown that agency journalism has its roots deep in the 19th century and its leaders have been forgotten. The first agency office in Prague was opened in 1867 with the creation of the Austro-Hungarian duality. The “operational space” of the official Austria news agency k.k. Telegraphen-Korrespondenz-Bureau (well known under the name Korrbureau, the first news agency in the world) became limited to Austrian areas of the monarchy. Independent Hungarian journalism began to flourish in the rest of the empire, culminating in the creation of the official Hungarian news agency MTI in 1883.

The Austrians continued to found new offices following the Prague office, but these mostly functioned as facilitators of information between the authorities in Vienna and Czech newspapers. The Brno and Ostrava offices were both founded in 1894, followed by offices in Olomouc, Plzeň and others. German was the language of correspondence, of course. Even CTK published a rich German-language service in the inter-war period. Some of the Czech cities where only CTK’s German reports were wired to up until World War Two include Karlovy Vary, Teplice, Usti nad Labem, Liberec and Opava. Czech agency service began only in the 20th century, in 1906, when the Prague office of Korrbureau created a Czech section.

The abbreviation CTK did not appear for the first time in 1918, but at the beginning of World War One, when Czech exiles in Washington initiated the creation of their own news agency. A similar institution founded by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in London in 1916 also held the name of Česká tisková kancelář (Czech News Agency, CTK).

Photographic Exhibition by CTK Reporter Michal Doležal

CTK PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAL DOLEŽAL PRESENTS HIS WORK CREATED DURING REPORTS AND IN HIS FREE TIME IN THE ACADEMIC CLUB OF PRAGUE’S FAUST HOUSE UNTIL OCTOBER 22.
Michal Doležal has worked as a photo reporter for CTK for 18 years, accumulating thousands of photographs in CTK’s archives. One of the pictures he values the most is the picture that won the Czech Press Photo prize in the sports category in 1999. The picture is titled Sex and Violence in Figure Skating and shows a Russian ice dancing pair in a position that can cause lively discussions among viewers.
Besides photos of sports, the exhibition also has portraits of politicians and artists, pictures from trips abroad by Czech politicians, and pictures from 2002’s devastating floods. Besides the 40 photographs on display, the exhibition also has Doležal’s portable computer that he used to send his first electronic pictures to CTK ten years ago. Visitors can also experience for themselves how heavy the 30 kilogrammes of equipment that a photo reporter has to carry are.