Free Press In Exile: Galina Timchenko gives Russians uncensored news
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- Author:
- Kohlman, Emily Marya
- Area of Honors:
- Interdisciplinary in Journalism and Russian
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Anthony Barbieri, Thesis Supervisor
Anthony Barbieri, Thesis Honors Advisor
Irina Mikaelian, Thesis Honors Advisor
Russell Edgar Eshleman Jr., Faculty Reader - Keywords:
- Media
Russia
Galina Timchenko
Latvia
Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump
BuzzFeed
Journalism
Censorship
News
Press Freedom
International Reporting
Committee to Protect Journalists
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Meduza
Lenta
Social Media - Abstract:
- I traveled to Riga, Latvia, in November 2017 to report in both English and Russian for this profile on Galina Timchenko, CEO and one of the founders of the independent Russian media outlet based in Riga, called Meduza. In a Kremlin "media purge" in the heat of the crisis in Ukraine in 2014, Timchenko was fired as editor in chief from Lenta, an online news outlet so widely read that it was referred to as the "Russian New York Times." She, along with members of her staff at Lenta who left in protest to her firing, moved to Riga to start an outlet under protection of the European Union so that they could not be censored. Meduza now has more than 10 million unique visitors a month and, in September 2017, announced a partnership with BuzzFeed. I have written both English and Russian versions of Timchenko’s profile and included the images from my visit to Meduza’s Riga office.
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