YEVGENIA ALBATS: JOURNALISM IN CRISIS

Hosted by Dick Polman
Co-sponsored by the Perry World House
Supported by the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Arts Fund
What happens to the world of journalism under governmental rule like that of Vladimir Putin? YEVGENIA ALBATS, editor-in-chief of the Russian political weekly THE NEW TIMES, will help us understand exactly that on Monday, October 30, at 12:00PM. Over lunch, DICK POLMAN will talk with Albats about her work in Russia, how information is shared or controlled, and how the state and her job interact. Please join us by RSVPing to wh@writing.upenn.edu or by calling 215-746-POEM.
YEVGENIA ALBATS is editor-in-chief of the Russian political weekly The New Times. She is also an anchor with the Echo Moskva broadcasting and a recipient of several journalism awards worldwide. She received the Golden Pen Award in 1989, the highest journalism honor in the then-Soviet Union. She was an Alfred Friendly fellow in 1990 and a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1993. Albats is the author of four books, including The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia. Past, Present and Future. Albats has a PhD in political science from Harvard University. She has lectured at many universities in the US and Europe, including Yale University and Oxford University. She is a permanent professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.