About

We tell stories built from data, we look for the context, and we have learned first-hand that describing reality faithfully sometimes takes a bit of courage: we lost our jobs and income overnight because of it, and had to start again.

We care about our work reflecting reality as closely as possible. Our advantage is that we can find data, read it, visualise it and interpret it. We look for the facts and record them honestly. We don’t tint them, we don’t work for interest groups, and we are not afraid.

Data. Context. Clarity. Courage.

Who we are

Kateřina Mahdalová, editor-in-chief and owner

Journalist, analyst, author of thousands of visualisations and analyses. In 2016–2019 she led data projects at the Czech News Agency (ČTK) and has long worked with leading media in the Czech Republic and abroad. She visualises data, looks for context, and focuses on human rights and holding the powerful to account.

Two-time winner of the Czech Journalism Award (Novinářská cena) and eight-time finalist, including a Data Journalism Award nomination. She graduated from the Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy and in information science at Masaryk University, and studied at the University of California, San Diego and Bangor University in Wales.

Michal Škop

Statistician, demographer and programmer, founder and director of the non-profit Voting Advice Applications, which since 2006 have helped millions of voters in many countries make better decisions at elections.

Winner of the Czech Journalism Award (2025) and a three-time finalist. He has worked at the Max Planck Institute in Rostock, at the University of Salamanca and at Charles University. He specialises in election analysis and forecasting, and now works, among other places, at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň.

Why

We believe a well-informed public is a condition of a working democracy. Whoever stops wanting to know the truth eventually loses the most valuable thing: freedom.

Producing and spreading unverified information, half-truths and PR messages is a hundred times cheaper than doing good journalism. We won’t promise to save democracy on our own or to rid the internet of lies. But we do support freedom and democracy, and we don’t intend to stop. Instead of grand gestures, we name the slice of reality our work can reach, and where we can, we measure whether we have really moved it.

Our main site, in Czech, is DataTimes.cz.