LITERATURE AND CULTURE SEMINAR - Reporting Russia: In Conversation with Miriam Elder and Julia Ioffe

Date and Time

February 28, 2014
03:00PM - 04:30PM EST

Location

Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Walter Lippman House, 1 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Join the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies for a lively conversation with journalists Miriam Elder and Julia Ioffe. Both former Moscow correspondents now writing from the US, the two will touch upon Sochi, Putin-era politics, and reporting Russia in the digital age.

Moderated by Wendell Steavenson.

Reception to follow in S030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.

Miriam Elder is the Foreign Editor at Buzzfeed. Prior to her current position, she served as a Moscow-based correspondent for The Guardian.

Julia Ioffe is a Senior Editor at the New Republic. Previously, she was a Moscow-based correspondent for Foreign Policy and The New Yorker.

Wendell Steavenson (moderator) is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is also a current fellow at the Nieman Foundation.

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

If you missed the event, you can listen to the conversation on Harvard's soundcloud.

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