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This study analyses changes in the journalists’ union triggered by a change in the head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in January 1968. The journalist organisation management responded to the power shake-up at the highest levels of Czechoslovak politics with restraint. They ended their tactical passivity at the turn of February and March 1968 when influenced by a renewing society-wide process, they formulated proposals for reforming the organisation’s internal structure and rehabilitating journalists in society.