JD
Jeremy Druker
Executive Director of Transitions & Editor-in-Chief of Transitions magazine
✱ Programs · Coursework
Going on Assignment.
A foreign-correspondent training course in Prague. Since 2005, it has taught hundreds of participants to report from the field — learning from correspondents who’ve written for Reuters, The Financial Times, The Observer, and Radio Free Europe. You’ll leave with a publishable piece of foreign reporting.
✱ Curriculum
What you’ll
actually do.
From the classroom to the streets of Prague — hands-on reporting with coaching at every step, ending in a finished, publishable story.
- Learn directly from working foreign correspondents
- Chase a real story on the streets of Prague
- Extensive coaching before you arrive and throughout research and writing
- Guidance on story structure, finding and reaching sources, and weaving in multimedia
- Help setting up interviews, including interpreters and local “fixers”
- Detailed, one-on-one feedback on your finished piece
- Visits to prominent Prague media institutions
- A solutions-journalism approach throughout
Day by day · July 10–25, 2027
The full itinerary.
- Sat · Jul 10
- Arrivals — hotel check-in from 15:00
- Free time
- Sun · Jul 11
- 09:50 Registration at the hotel lobby
- 10:00–13:00 Walking tour with Lucie Lacková
- 13:15 Welcome lunch with Jeremy Druker
- 15:00–17:00 “Life as a Foreign Correspondent” with Raphael Minder (Financial Times)
- Free evening in Prague
- Mon · Jul 12
- 10:00–12:30 Panel moderated by Jeremy Druker — correspondent roles, news cycles, gender, interviewing, safety, war coverage, ethics
- 14:00–16:30 News-Writing Lab with Michael Winfrey
- 16:30–18:00 Story-pitch session with faculty feedback
- Tue · Jul 13
- 11:30–14:00 Writing Lab with Michael Winfrey & Michael T. Martinez — research, sources, interviewing
- 15:00–17:00 Practical writing exercise with faculty review
- Wed · Jul 14
- All-day reporting and interviewing in the field
- Thu · Jul 15
- 10:45–11:45 “The Life of a TV Foreign Correspondent” with Dana Zlatohlávková
- 12:00–13:30 “The Power of Solutions Journalism in International Reporting” with Jeremy Druker
- Afternoon field reporting & first-draft prep
- Fri · Jul 16
- 9:30–11:30 Visual Communication with Michael T. Martinez
- Afternoon print-story preparation
- 19:00 First-draft deadline
- Sat–Sun · Jul 17–18
- Free days
- 19:00–21:00 Individual feedback on first drafts (15 min each)
- Mon · Jul 19
- 11:30–13:30 Multimedia Reporting with Will Tizard — video journalism & story structure
- 15:00–17:00 Field video exercises with review
- Tue · Jul 20
- Working on video / audio stories
- Wed · Jul 21
- 9:30–11:15 Tour of Seznam.cz + innovation session
- Rest of day on video / audio stories
- Thu · Jul 22
- 11:00–13:30 Visit to RFE/RL — security, building tour with Jakub Tesar, expert meeting
- 17:00 Print-story deadline
- Fri · Jul 23
- All-day shooting & editing
- 17:00 Video deadline
- 17:00–19:00 Individual feedback on final versions
- Sat · Jul 24
- 11:00–13:00 Video / audio critique with Will Tizard & Michael T. Martinez
- 13:00–13:20 Evaluation
- 14:00–16:00 Farewell boat cruise with lunch
- Sun · Jul 25
- Departures
✱ Faculty
Taught by working correspondents.
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Raphael Minder
Central Europe correspondent, The Financial Times (based in Warsaw)
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Michael T. Martinez
Professor, College of Communication & Information, University of Tennessee
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Jana Ciglerová
Journalist (Prague & London); formerly The Observer
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Ondřej Kundra
Reporter, Respekt magazine (since 1999)
PJ
Peter Jančárik
Leads Seznam's media-quality evaluation projects
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Will Tizard
Prague-based journalist & documentarian, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
DZ
Dana Zlatohlávková
Editor & presenter, international news desk, Czech Television
✱ Tuition & fees
Book early, pay less.
Super Early-Bird
$2,500
€2,450
Pay by 30 November 2026
Early-Bird
$2,800
€2,650
Pay by 15 March 2027
Standard
$3,350
€3,200
After 15 March 2027
What’s included
- Full course tuition
- Pre-course online learning
- Twin-room accommodation with breakfast & wifi (check-in 10 July, check-out 25 July)
- Prague city public-transport pass
- Select social events — welcome lunch, sightseeing, farewell boat cruise
- 21% VAT
Not included
- Travel to and from Prague
- Most meals
- Visa and insurance
- Personal expenses
Cancellation policy
No fee
Before deposit
25%
Until 31 January 2027
50%
1 February – 30 April 2027
100%
From 1 May 2027
Payment by bank transfer — quote your full name and “941” when you pay.
✱ Optional, after the course
Keep reporting.
Stay in Prague, or head out to Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, or the Balkans to do your own reporting. We’ll team you up with a local contributor who acts as translator and “fixer” — arranging interviews, helping choose a strong story, and finding accommodation.
Plan on at least a week. Transitions editors and course staff edit and give feedback one-on-one, and stories that meet our standards are published and distributed globally through our syndication system.
When
Immediately after the course, July 2027
Who
Enrolled 2027 participants only
Arrange by
Email education@tol.org before 1 April 2027
✱ Student achievement
Published, for real.
Stories written by past participants and published in Transitions magazine. Each year we select course-produced stories and help them reach international readers.
Travel
“Can Prague Tame Its Tourism Boom”
by Josephine Böllhoff
Society
“No Way Home”
by Lauren Holladay
Culture
“An Epic Journey Home”
by Sadie Self
News
“Restore or Reconstruct? Prague Is in a Conundrum Over the Vyšehrad Railway Bridge”
by Josephine Böllhoff & Lamija Kovačević
✱ Educational affiliations of past participants
They came from everywhere.
Balkh UniversityBoston UniversityCarleton UniversityChinese University of Hong KongColorado State UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State UniversityDanish School of Media and JournalismDiablo Valley CollegeETH ZurichGeorge Washington UniversityHong Kong Baptist UniversityHoward UniversityMarist CollegeMiddle Tennessee State UniversityMount Royal UniversityNortheastern UniversityQueen's UniversityRegis UniversityRoskilde UniversityRyerson UniversitySeton Hall UniversityShanghai International Studies UniversityUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of California–Santa BarbaraUniversity Ca' Foscari of VeniceUniversity of CanberraUniversity of Central LancashireUniversity of DenverUniversity of GeorgiaUniversity of King's CollegeUniversity of PortsmouthUniversity of ReadingUniversity of RichmondUniversity of South AustraliaUniversity of Wisconsin–Eau ClaireTemple UniversityThe London School of JournalismThe University of TennesseeVassar CollegeVirginia Commonwealth UniversityZHAW
Going on Assignment · July 10–25, 2027
Ready to file your first foreign story?
Applications are open. Lock in the Super Early-Bird rate by 30 November 2026.