Beata Balogová is the editor in chief of the SME daily newspaper, one of the major independent dailies in the Slovak Republic. She is also a member of the International Press Institute (IPI) executive board.

Ms. Balogová has a degree cum laude from Comenius University in Bratislava, majoring in journalism, and was a Fulbright scholar of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She subsequently graduated with a master’s degree in journalism from the School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York in 2007.

Ms. Balogová joined the SME in December 2014. Prior to this, she served as editor in chief of Slovakia’s English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator between 2003 and 2014. Previously, she worked for Slovakia’s first and largest private newswire, SITA Slovak News Agency, and the state newswire, TASR. She is one of the co-organizers of the Best Media Traditions program, which brings Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to Slovakia.

Ms. Balogová currently lives in Bratislava.