

“And while that may be true of Russian officialdom -– though not all of it -– I have found that if you go looking for the right people, many of them want to tell their stories. “When you start reporting in Russia, you often hear that it will be very hard to get people to talk,” he said in the Bowdoin interview. Two years later, excited by what he’d learned at the Times, he wanted to get reporting experience and found a slot in 2017 at the Moscow Times, an English-language news site in the Russian capital. “I have followed his career with admiration and am horrified at this outcome.”Īfter college, Gershkovich worked for an environmental organization in Southeast Asia, then moved to New York and worked as a cook until joining The New York Times as a clerk on the foreign desk. “He was lively and outspoken and not afraid to express his views,” she said in an email.
