Issue 6.
Mikhail Zygar’ and Arseny Khitrov
Mikhail Zygar’ is editor-in-chief of the Russian Optimistic Television Channel Dozhd (since October 2010). In 2009-2010, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Russian Newsweek where he was also in charge of the ’politics’ section. In 1999-2009, he worked in the Kommersant Publishing House. He is a columnist for openspace.ru, bg.ru, and snob.ru. He is a graduate of the Department of International Journalism at the Moscow State Institutue for International Relations (Ministery of Foreighn Affairs of the Russian Federation) and Cairo University. He is the author of War and Myth (2007) and Gazprom: New Russian Weapons (together with Valerii Paniushkin, 2008).
Arseny Khitrov is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies (School of Philosophy, National University ‘Higher School of Economics, Moscow’). His research interests include media and cultural trauma and collective memory.
6.6 Russian Optimistic Internet TV Channel Dozhd (Interview with Mikhail Zygar’)
Dozhd [rain, in Russian] is one of the newest Russian off-the-air television channels. It was launched in April 2010, and since then it has been available to users over the cable, satellite and on the internet. Dozhd is a small private TV channel with a pronounced social mission and an innovative style which is quite unique on the Russian TV market. Dozhd covers some current social and political issues that are sometimes absent from major Russian TV channels. As a result Dozhd has gained a lot of popularity amongst young politically active internet-users. In an exclusive interview with Arseny Khitrov, Mikhail Zygar’, editor-in-chief of Dozhd, discusses the evolution of the TV channel, its techniques of news presentation and the relations of Dozhd to other TV channels and audiences.
Language of contribution: Russian
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