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RT Head Simonyan Appointed Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief
Margarita Simonyan
© RIA Novosti. Sergey Piatakov
14:11 31/12/2013
Tags: Margarita Simonyan, Russia
MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - Margarita Simonyan, the head of
the state-funded RT satellite news network, was appointed Wednesday to
head the Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that will include
Russia's major state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
"This key position could only be held by a person with a brilliant
journalistic reputation and contemporary managerial skills," Rossiya
Segodnya's director Dmitry Kiselyov said.
Simonyan will also retain her post as the head of RT, which formerly
broadcast under the name Russia Today.
Earlier in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree
to scrap RIA Novosti and the state-owned Voice of Russia radio and
absorb them into the new Rossiya Segodnya.
In a separate decree, the Kremlin appointed Kiselyov, a prominent
Russian television presenter and media manager, to head Rossiya
Segodnya.
RIA Novosti was set up in 1941, two days after Nazi Germany invaded
the Soviet Union, as the Soviet Information Bureau, and now has
reporters in over 45 countries providing news in 14 languages.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131231/186117507/RT-Head-Simonyan-Appointed-Rossiya-Segodnya-Editor-in-Chief.html
Margarita Simonyan
© RIA Novosti. Sergey Piatakov
14:11 31/12/2013
Tags: Margarita Simonyan, Russia
MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - Margarita Simonyan, the head of
the state-funded RT satellite news network, was appointed Wednesday to
head the Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that will include
Russia's major state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
"This key position could only be held by a person with a brilliant
journalistic reputation and contemporary managerial skills," Rossiya
Segodnya's director Dmitry Kiselyov said.
Simonyan will also retain her post as the head of RT, which formerly
broadcast under the name Russia Today.
Earlier in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree
to scrap RIA Novosti and the state-owned Voice of Russia radio and
absorb them into the new Rossiya Segodnya.
In a separate decree, the Kremlin appointed Kiselyov, a prominent
Russian television presenter and media manager, to head Rossiya
Segodnya.
RIA Novosti was set up in 1941, two days after Nazi Germany invaded
the Soviet Union, as the Soviet Information Bureau, and now has
reporters in over 45 countries providing news in 14 languages.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131231/186117507/RT-Head-Simonyan-Appointed-Rossiya-Segodnya-Editor-in-Chief.html