The Breakthrough: What American Journalists Can Learn From Reporting Under Putin - ProPublica
Elizaveta Osetinskaya, chief editor of the RBC, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 18, 2015 (Sergey Mihailicenko/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Last year, Osetinskaya and two of her colleagues were ousted from the RBC after they published stories on the Panama Papers, tying Putin’s associates to offshore bank accounts.
This week on The Breakthrough, Osetinskaya takes us inside the world of Russian investigative journalism, where reporting on corruption can have serious consequences.
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Enjoy the podcast and want more? Dive deeper into this week’s episode:
- Read about the demise of the RBC in The New Yorker.
- Listen to a Wilson Center event on the future of muckraking in Russia.
- Learn about the history of Russian media in The Interpreter.
- Read about the other newsrooms that have faced intimidation from the Kremlin.
- Check out the most recent Freedom of the Press report on Russia.
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