In this episode, we speak with Kate de Pury, EBU Moscow’s Bureau chief to get a sense of how she and her team have had to navigate the current challenges of reporting from Russia. Kate joined the EBU as its Moscow Bureau chief in 2021.
Kate de Pury, is a journalist and news editor with decades of international experience. De Pury’s broadcast news career has been dominated by roles at Associated Press (AP) and Reuters in Russia. She has also worked as a journalist in Chechnya, Ukraine, Georgia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since the end of the Soviet Union. As Moscow bureau chief for AP from 2015-19 she oversaw a multimedia team and liaised regularly with local and foreign news organizations in Russia and the wider region.
De Pury is a member of the Rory Peck Trust advisory committee which supports freelance journalists worldwide and has designed and launched a new online MA in Digital Journalism at Falmouth University in the UK.
A dedicated ‘Russianist’, she speaks fluent Russian, as well as English and French, and has thorough knowledge of the region and its history.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katedepury
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