Janek Rubeš

Jan Rubeš
Rubeš in 2019
Personal information
Born
Jan Rubeš

(1987-12-24) 24 December 1987 (age 37)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
EducationFilm School in Písek, Tomas Bata University in Zlín
OccupationJournalist
YouTube information
Channel
LocationPrague, Czech Republic
Years active2015–present
Subscribers1.65 million[1]
Total views165.6 million[1]
Websitehttps://honest.blog/
Last updated: 8 September 2024

Janek (Jan) Rubeš (born 24 December 1987) is a Czech reporter, documentarist, vlogger and director.[2] He is mainly known for the YouTube channel Honest Guide, which he runs with his cameraman Honza 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 Novinářská křepelka [cs] (Journalist Quail, awarded to young journalists under the Cena Karla Havlíčka Borovského [cs] award of Karel Havlíček Borovský) for his investigative and brave journalism.[7] The British newspaper The Independent named him and Honza 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?, and 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 by charging them many times the normal price.[9] He was also a cameraman for a series about architecture Gebrian versus and for 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) of which he was the writer.

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) and abroad (New York City, Kyiv, Tampere, and Innsbruck). As of February 2023, the YouTube channel has more than 1 Million subscribers and more than 117.8 million views.[10] Many of the videos from the Honest Guide channel were deleted in March 2021 due to a copyright dispute. Janek Rubeš and Honza 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, Rubeš and Mikulka created a new channel called Kluci z Prahy which is the same format as Honest Guide, but in Czech.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Honest Guide". YouTube.
  2. ^ "The Honest Guide to The City of Prague". Tres Bohemes. 23 January 2018. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ Amendola, Mario (15 April 2019). "Honest Guide: i paladini dell'onestà a Praga". La voce del Trentino (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 February 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Janek Rubeš: The Honest Prague Guide". Prague Visitor Magazine. 30 November 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Map to the Honest Guide". Prague.tv. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  6. ^ "JANEK RUBEŠ". Forbes (in Czech). Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Odvážná práce při odhalování šmejdů. Janek Rubeš získal prestižní novinářskou cenu". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). 2019. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  8. ^ Scallon, Auburn (21 December 2017). "How not to get ripped off in Prague". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 September 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  9. ^ Tachecí, Barbora; Tesařová, Kateřina (7 January 2018). "S pražskými taxikáři jezdím obden, ale na ulici bych si na ně nemávl, říká Janek Rubeš". Czech Radio (in Czech). Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  10. ^ "HONEST GUIDE". YouTube. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Kluci z Prahy". YouTube. Archived from the original on 24 November 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
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