New Editor-in-Chief Appointed to The Moscow Times

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – November 6, 2015)

Liberal Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman was appointed editor-in-chief of English-language paper The Moscow Times on Thursday, the newspaper’s owner Demyan Kudryavtsev said.

“He is a decent, well-known and well-connected person,” Kudryavtsev, who bought the paper earlier this year, said in e-mailed comments to The Moscow Times.

The appointment of Fishman comes less than three weeks after former editor-in-chief, and veteran The Moscow Times reporter, Nabi Abdullaev, resigned because of what he said were “differences” with Kudryavtsev.

Prominent journalist Fishman was the editor-in-chief of Russian Newsweek when it was shut down – reportedly because of financial losses – five years ago. He has since hosted his own show on liberal television station Dozhd and is an editor at Internet news site Slon.ru.

First published as a daily paper in 1992, The Moscow Times switched to a new, 16-page weekly format this week.DJ: We all face difficulties and obstacles in trying to find a balanced assessment of current issues. One neglected problem may be the heavy burden of the overconfident Maidan Versteher who insists on always being right. No one is completely right but some have a hard time accepting that.