Jan Kaliba
Jan Kaliba is a long-time reporter for Czech Radio. From 2017 to 2023, he served as a correspondent in the USA and surrounding countries. His reports from North America won the international Reportage category at the Prix Bohemia Radio festival twice in a row. Before moving to Washington, he worked as a sports reporter and commentator for Radiožurnál for over ten years, covering the Olympic Games, World and European football championships, European cups, and international skiing competitions. Currently, in addition to sports and the USA, he focuses primarily on issues concerning climate change.
The Struggle for America
Voices from a Divided Nation
August 2024, 256 pages
Available material: English synopsis, English sample
The United States and the struggle for its future and for ours – told from the inside
How do Donald Trump’s supporters think, and why have they become so devoted to him? How do indigenous inhabitants view their American citizenship? Why do the descendants of Black slaves speak of persistent systemic racism? What do those trying to enter the U.S. across the southern border experience? The author, a reporter for Czech Radio, spent six years in the field focusing on these “voices of America,” letting them speak far beyond the scope of ordinary journalism. He takes you to the crowds of Trump supporters during the attack on the Capitol, to the sinking island of Tangier with its deeply religious crab-fishing community, to the remote reservation of the Yurok tribe in Northern California, to protest organizers in a poor Black neighborhood in Brooklyn following the murder of George Floyd, and to a refugee camp on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
