{
  "id": 20229600,
  "title": "Czechs stage huge rally against public-media funding overhaul",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/czechs-stage-huge-rally-against-public-media-funding-overhaul-20229600",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-15T21:11:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3374518/czechs-stage-huge-rally-against-public-media-funding-overhaul"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hundreds of thousands of Czechs rallied in Prague on Sunday against the nationalist government’s plan to overhaul public-media funding, which critics see as a threat to press freedom. The government of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis wants to switch from funding Czech TV and Czech Radio through licence fees paid by viewers and listeners to payments from the state budget. Opponents say the…",
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    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Czechs gather in big numbers to reject government’s plan to overhaul funding of public media",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/czechs-gather-in-big-numbers-to-reject-governments-plan-to-overhaul",
        "published": "2026-11-15T15:22:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Czechs stage huge rally against public-media funding overhaul",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/czechs-stage-huge-rally-against-public-media-funding-overhaul",
        "published": "2026-11-15T16:46:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "BBC World",
        "title": "Czechs rally against plan to switch funding of public media",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/czechs-rally-against-plan-to-switch-funding-of-public-media",
        "published": "2026-11-15T17:23:40.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}