Janek Rubeš

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Janek Rubeš
Janek Rubeš (2019) II.jpg
Rubeš in 2019
Personal information
BornJan Rubeš
(1987-12-24) December 24, 1987 (age 33)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
EducationFilm School in Písek, Tomas Bata University in Zlín
OccupationJournalist
YouTube information
Channel
LocationPrague, Czech Republic
Websitehttps://honest.blog/
Years active2015-present
Subscribers939K[1]
Total views139 million views[1]
(9 March 2021)

Janek Rubeš (born 24 December 1987) is a Czech reporter, documentarist, vlogger and director.[2] He is mainly known for the Honest Guide, the name of the YouTube channel he runs with his friend and cameraman Jan Mikulka.[3] The channel provides tips for tourists, including tips on how to avoid tourist traps and scams in many cities, mainly Prague.[4][5]

In 2016 the Czech edition of Forbes featured Rubeš in their 30 under 30 list: 30 of the most talented Czechs under 30 years old.[6] In 2019, he won the (Journalist Quail, awarded to young journalists under the of Karel Havlíček Borovský) for his investigative and brave journalism.[7] The British newspaper The Independent named him and Jan Mikulka "the patron saints of Prague tourism".[8]

Early life[]

Rubeš studied at The Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Písek and also at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. His father, Jan Rubeš, is known for his work in television production. His parents are divorced.

Career[]

In 2006, Rubeš filmed viral videos as part of a duo called Noisebrothers with Jindra Malík. Since 2006, he has been engaged with Czech internet television Stream.cz, for which he has created a number of successful programs over the years, including How to Do It, NBN, Life in Luxury, City of Scams ?, or Prague vs. Crooks. In Prague vs. Crooks (2015), he documented Prague as a city of organized crime. For example, he captured taxi drivers scamming tourists – charging them many times the normal price. He was also a cameraman for a series about architecture Gebrian versus or Jídlo s.r.o.

In 2018, he left Stream.cz and joined the newly emerging Czech news channel , which is under ownership of the Czech internet portal and company Seznam.cz. Between 2018 and 2019, he hosted the talkshow V Centru (translated as In The Centre) which he was the author of.

Honest Guide[]

Since 2016, he has published his most popular series Honest Guide with his cameraman friend Jan Mikulka on YouTube. It is filmed mainly in English and sometimes in Czech. The channel provides tips for tourists, including tips on how to avoid tourist traps and scams in many cities, mainly Prague. They have also filmed in multiple cities in the Czech Republic (such as Český Krumlov, Pardubice and Brno) or abroad (New York, Kyiv, Helsinki and Innsbruck).

The YouTube channel has more than 900 thousand subscribers and more than 100 million views. Many of the videos from the Honest Guide channel were deleted in March 2021 due to a copyright dispute. Janek Rubeš and Jan Mikulka were employed by TV Seznam until the end of 2020 and they shot the same videos from the Honest Guide for their employer. The videos for TV Seznam were in Czech, but the content was the same. On 2 October 2020 Janek Rubeš and Jan Mikulka founded their new Czech youtube channel Kluci z Prahy.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "About Honest Guide". YouTube.
  2. ^ "The Honest Guide to The City of Prague". Tres Bohemes. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  3. ^ Amendola, Mario (2019-04-15). "Honest Guide: i paladini dell'onestà a Praga". La voce del Trentino (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  4. ^ "Janek Rubeš: The Honest Prague Guide". Prague Visitor Magazine. 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  5. ^ "Map to the Honest Guide". Prague.tv. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  6. ^ "JANEK RUBEŠ". Forbes.cz. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Odvážná práce při odhalování šmejdů. Janek Rubeš získal prestižní novinářskou cenu". Seznam Zprávy. 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  8. ^ "How not to get ripped off in Prague". The Independent. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2019-05-28.

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