Janek Rubeš

Janek Rubeš (born Jan Rubeš, 24 December 1987) is a Czech reporter, documentarist, vlogger and director.[1] He is mainly known as Honest Guide, which is the name of the YouTube channel which he runs with his cameraman friend Honza Mikulka (born Jan Mikulka).[2] The channel provides tips for tourists, including tips on how to avoid tourist traps and scams in many cities, mainly Prague.[3][4]

Janek Rubeš
Rubeš in 2019
Personal information
Born (1987-12-24) December 24, 1987
Prague, Czechoslovakia
EducationFilm School in Písek, Tomas Bata University in Zlín
OccupationJournalist
YouTube information
Channel
LocationPrague, Czech Republic
Websitehttps://honest.blog/
Years active2015-present
Subscribers790K
Total views117 million views
(12 September 2020)

In 2016 the Czech edition of Forbes featured Rubeš in 30 under 30: 30 of the most talented Czechs under 30 years old.[5] In 2019, he won the Novinářská křepelka (Journalist Quail, awarded to young journalists under the Award of Karel Havlíček Borovský) for his investigative and brave journalism.[6] British newspaper The Independent called him and Jan Mikulka "the patron saints of Prague tourism".[7]

Early life

Rubeš studied The Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Písek and Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. His father, Jan Rubeš, is known for his engagement 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 Seznam Zprávy, 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 Honza 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 800 thousand subscribers and more than 100 million views.

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