Strike media at Charles University during the Velvet Revolution 1989

The aim of this thesis is to find all available media published by strike committees at the Charles University and at other universities, to describe them and to compare them with the official daily and each other. Moreover, the publishers of those media should have been contacted with the request for interview. However, after discussion with my supervisor, interviews with publishers and editors were not done, because of complexity and scope of the thesis. The thesis summarizes activities of students during the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and focuses on student newsletters and magazines that were published by student strike committees and other independent student associations during the time of the revolution. Eleven media published in Prague, Pilsen and Olomouc are described. The described magazines are the following ones: Čaje o páté, EM89, Informační bulletin, Nezávislí, Plzeňský student, Proto, Přetlak, Reflex, Růžové právo, Situace 89 and Skoba. In addition, individual journals are compared with each other. Firstly the journals from the Charles University and secondly the other magazines. One subchapter deals with comparison of students' media with the official daily Rudé právo, which was the most read newspaper in Czechoslovakia by that time