Eliot Brown of The Wall Street Journal writes about the life of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, sentenced last week to 16 years in a Russian prison. Brown writes, “A soccer star in high school at Princeton’s public schools, Evan studied philosophy at Bowdoin College in Maine and then moved to New York after a year in Thailand. After a time working as a line chef, he pushed his way into journalism and landed a job as a news assistant at the New York Times. “Then in 2017, Evan took a career risk: He left his job at the New York Times and moved to Moscow to work at the Moscow Times, a scrappy English-language outlet that has a history of nurturing talented Russia correspondents. “He was comfortable in New York, but he felt the pull of Russia—a place he’d visited just once but that fascinated him.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 22, 2024 05:14 UTC