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It takes a brave person to visit the third-floor offices of The Prague Post, an English-language weekly at Na Porici 12, Praha 1, in the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic. Visitors have to test their athletic prowess by jumping off an elevator platform that refuses to stop. There is no time for hesitation.
The elevator may be a deterrent to some, but it has not scared off the staff, mostly American-born and -educated editors. They have happily fled their homeland for expatriate journalism in liberated central Europe. Given the frontier conditions that the elevator represents, the question is, why?
Martin Huckerby, the Post's British editor, has an answer: job satisfaction. "I read somewhere that job satisfaction in the States among journalists is way down," he says. "It's no surprise that many good people are coming here, not just because of the quality of life, but because they want to work in an exciting environment." The Prague Post, he says, provides "a seat on the balcony of Europe with a glass of Czech...