Leonid Parfyonov
Leonid Gennadievich Parfyonov (Russian: Леонид Геннадьевич Парфёнов, b. January 26, 1960, Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast) is a Russian news anchor, journalist and an author of some popular TV shows. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of the Russian edition of Newsweek.
He is also the author and narrator of the documentary cycle Namedni 1961-2003: Nasha Era in 42 TV series (1997). For this work he was presented with the TEFI award and also a special prize in 2004.
In November 2010 he became the first recipient of the Listyev Prize, in honour of Vladislav Listyev, a Russian journalist who was murdered in 1995 in Moscow. On receipt of the prize, he made a speech damning Russian TV, saying “journalists are not journalists at all but bureaucrats, following the logic of service and submission”.[1] In the past, Parfyonov had refrained from making political statements, saying "I am a professional journalist, not a professional revolutionary. My job is to report, not to climb the barricades".[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Russian TV Host Slams Media in Award Speech". The Other Russia. http://www.theotherrussia.org/2010/11/28/russian-tv-host-slams-media-in-award-speech/. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ^ Eastern Approaches. "Parfyonov's magic touch". The Economist. http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/11/russian_media. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
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