"1930, ""Tintin in the Land of the Soviets"" was syndicated to French Catholic magazine (""Brave Hearts""), recently founded by the Abbé Gaston Courtois. Courtois had travelled to Brussels to meet Wallez and Hergé, but upon publication thought that his readers would not understand the speech bubble system, adding explanatory sentences below each image. This angered Hergé, who unsuccessfully ""intervened passionately"" to stop the additions. The publication was highly significant for initiating Hergé's international career. The story was also reprinted in its original form in ""L'écho illustré"", a Swiss weekly magazine, from 1932 onward. Recognising the continued commercial viability of the"
"Irving R. Levine Irving Raskin Levine (August 26, 1922 – March 27, 2009) was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was the first American television correspondent to be accredited in the Soviet Union. He wrote three non-fiction books on life in the USSR, each of which became a bestseller. Born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Levine graduated from Brown University. In 1940 Levine went into journalism, starting at the ""Providence Journal"" as an obituary writer. During World War II, he served with the Army Signal"
"to starting his career as a writer, he worked as a technologist at a textile factory in Kalinin. As he began his journalism career in 1928, his talents were such that he was chosen to be patronized by Maxim Gorky. His ""nom de plume"" has several variations based on transliterations. It was derived from translating Latin ""campus"" to Russian ""pole"" (″a field″). He is perhaps best known for his reporting on the atrocities at Auschwitz soon after its liberation, which were the first to have been published in ""Pravda"". His accounts reportedly differ from what others found, including a description"
"on March 27, 2009. He was 86. The cause was complications of prostate cancer, said his son Daniel Rome Levine. Irving R. Levine Irving Raskin Levine (August 26, 1922 – March 27, 2009) was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was the first American television correspondent to be accredited in the Soviet Union. He wrote three non-fiction books on life in the USSR, each of which became a bestseller. Born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Levine graduated from Brown University. In 1940 Levine went into"
"organized by the Association of Moscow Photographers for the Press House (Moscow). In 1927 he went to then well-known newspaper Bednota (Moscow) as a press photographer, covering rural life, Volkhovstroy and the first Soviet-made turbines. In 1928 the editor assigned him to shoot the Ludorvaiskiy trial of rich peasants (kulaks) in Udmurtia. In 1929 eighteen of his photos appeared in Sovetskoe foto, in ten issues, two of them on the cover. From 1929 he was a professional photographer for the magazines ""Sovremennaia arkhitektura"", avant-garde Daesh' (which published 13 of his photo essays), ""Radioslushatel""' and Illiustrirovannaia rabochaia gazeta. He was one"
"son of German Communist from the Saar region of Germany. The boy is adopted by a Soviet journalist for ""Pravda"", Mikhail Koltsov, and his partner, the German journalist Maria Osten, who took the boy in 1935 to the Soviet Union. The boy's arrival in the Soviet Union was a very highly publicized event at the time, as it was a demonstration of the cooperation of fellow Communists to save a young boy from having to grow up in Nazi Germany. The boy was toured all around the country and he was even taken to visit Marshals Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Semyon"
"of the pioneers of ""Investigative journalism"" in the Soviet periodicals. Thus, in 1974 in Madrid he managed to interview a Nazi criminal, the favourite of Hitler Otto Skorzeny, who categorically refused to meet any journalist before. Then, being the ""Literaturnaya Gazeta"" newspaper correspondent in Germany, the writer succeeds in interviewing the reichsminister Albert Speer and one of the SS leaders Karl Wolff. The conversations with such people, as well as holding the investigation regarding the searches for the Amber Room and other cultural values moved abroad from Russia during World War II were published by Semyonov in his documentary story"
"New York, landing a job with the ""New York Daily Mirror"". After working for ""The Mirror"" for about a year, Hickok obtained a job with the Associated Press in 1928, where she became one of the wire service's top correspondents. Her November 1928 story on the sinking of the SS ""Vestris"" was published in ""The New York Times"" under her own byline, the first woman's byline to appear in the paper. She also reported on the Lindbergh kidnapping and other national events. By 1932, she had become the nation's best-known female reporter. Hickok first met Roosevelt in 1928 when assigned"
"Arkady Shaikhet Arkady Samoylovich Shaikhet (, September 12, 1898 - November 18, 1959) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist and photographer. In the history of Soviet photography, Shaikhet is known for a type of journalistic photography called ""artistic reportage,"" and for photographs of industrialization in the 1920s and 1930s. His first photographs were published in 1923 and in 1924 he joined the staff of the national magazine Ogonyok. His images were used for their covers from the magazine's first issue. Shaikhet was one of the founders (together with journalist Mikhail Koltsov) of ""Soviet Photo"" in 1926. Starting in 1930 he contributed"
"journalist, winning praise and notoriety as one of the best crime reporters in Moscow. His first book, ""The Stories of the Slums"" (1887) recorded his experiences with the Moscow underworld, the Moscow of poverty and crime, finding its epitome in the area of Khitrovka. After the revolution he dedicated himself to writing memoirs. Among those were ""My Travels"" (1928) and ""Newspaper Moscow"" (published posthumously), which recorded his reminiscences of the newspaper business of pre-revolutionary Moscow and of some famous people he'd worked with (such as Anton Chekhov), and ""Theatre People"" (also published posthumously). He died in Moscow on October 1,"
"succeeded him on foreign news (later in turn succeeded by James S. Allen). In 1929, he succeeded his brother at TASS and lived with his wife Vera Schaap (wife of Al Schaap, a Young Communist League founder) and his brother Joseph in an apartment on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, rented from Eugene Lyons (formerly with TASS, by then with United Press correspondent in Moscow). Chambers recalled Freeman's guests included Sender Garlin, Abe Magill, James S. Allen, Joseph North (of the ""Daily Worker"" and ""New Masses""), Anna Rochester, Grace Hutchins, Nadya Pavlov, and Kenneth Durant. When Freeman moved to TASS,"
"to Georgia, they encountered the starving Ukrainian peasants in Kharkiv. When the women arrived in Tblisi, Georgia, she was arrested on the charge of reporting false news about the USSR. Rhea Clyman Rhea Clyman (1904 – 1981) was a Canadian journalist who travelled the USSR and reported about the Holodomor. She was famously expelled from the USSR in 1932. Clyman was born in 1904 in Toronto. In 1928, at the age of 24, she travelled to the USSR to report on Soviet reforms; however, was exposed to the realities of the regime. She wrote for numerous newspapers which included the"
"was part of another mission, that of rescuing the ""Malygin"" ice-breaker. In 1930-1931 he published ""The Overseas Stories"", ""On White Land"" and autobiographical novel ""Childhood"", his own personal favourite. On July 1, 1934, Sokolov-Mikitov became the member of the USSR Union of Writers. After the personal invitation from Joseph Stalin Sokolov-Mikitov received a flat in Leningrad and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (all in all, he's had four of them) As the war broke Sokolov-Mikitov asked to be mobilized but has been evacuated instead to Perm where he started working as ""Izvestia""s Ural special correspondent."
"Alexander Bovin Alexander Bovin (, transliteration: ""Alexandr Yevgenyevich Bovin"") (9 August 1930 – 29 April 2004) was a Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat, notable for being the first Soviet, and then Russian ambassador to Israel after the re-establishment of Soviet-Israeli diplomatic relations. He was a leading journalist of Soviet Union and Russia of the late 20th century. ""The New York Times"" called him ""one of the most colorful and daring commentators of the late Soviet period"" and ""The Washington Post"" also said he was ""widely regarded as the Soviet Union's most sophisticated and best-informed political commentator"". Alexander"
"being America's earliest female photojournalist, photographing the Massachusetts state prison for the ""Boston Post"" in 1899. She was then hired by ""The Buffalo Inquirer"" and ""The Courier"" in 1902. Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875–1937) was an explorer whose expedition photographs were published in National Geographic. She served as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine in Europe during World War I, the only female journalist permitted to visit the trenches. Another war correspondent based in France during World War I was Helen Johns Kirtland (1890–1979) where she worked for ""Leslie's Weekly"". Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971) was the first foreigner to photograph Soviet industry as"
"articles from Moscow did not draw wide attention. It was after the advent of the first five-year plan (1928–1933), which aimed to transform Soviet industry and agriculture, that Duranty made his mark. In 1929, he was granted an exclusive interview with Joseph Stalin that greatly enhanced his reputation as a journalist. Duranty was to remain in Moscow for twelve years, settling in the United States in 1934. Thereafter, he remained on retainer for ""The New York Times"", which required him to spend several months a year in Moscow. It was in this capacity that Duranty reported on the show trials"
"Gareth Jones (journalist) Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who first publicized in the Western world the existence of the Soviet famine of 1932–33. Jones was born in Barry, Glamorgan. His father Major Edgar Jones was headmaster of Barry County School which Gareth attended. His mother had spent the period 1889–1892 as tutor to the children of Arthur Hughes, the son of Welsh steel industrialist John Hughes, who had founded the town of ""Yuzovka"" or ""Hughesovka"", modern day Donetsk, in Ukraine, and her stories inspired in Jones a desire to visit"
"for Izvestia, photographing Maxim Gorky in 1929, the expedition to the North Pole in 1930, the Russian-Finnish War (1939–40). A staff photographer for ""Izvestia"", ""Pravda"" and ""Ogoniok"" magazine. During the Second World War, he was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet as a correspondent for the Soviet information Bureau. Filmed and photographed the rescue of children at the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by the Red Army, January 27, 1945 ""We had brought with us to Waldia one European who did not belong to our Unit, the Russian, B. Zeitlin, a fearless and indefatigable film-photographer."" Zelma was a photojournalist on"
"Lithuania. When he was denied direct access to the Soviet Union, he relied on reports from refugees and correspondents he sent across the border. His experiences made him a committed anti-Communist, which was reflected in his reports, especially those on the forced collectivization of agriculture in the 1920s and the Soviet famine of 1932–1933. Day's uncompromising reports on the Soviet Union were almost unique at the time, completely unlike those of other Western reporters like Walter Duranty, the Moscow Bureau Chief of the ""New York Times"" from 1922 to 1936. Three months before the United States presidential election of 1936,"
"The Adjutant of His Excellency The Adjutant of His Excellency () is a Soviet television mini-series which was produced in 1969 and is set during the Russian civil war. The plot revolves around Captain Pavel Koltsov, an agent working for the Soviet secret police who is spying on the white Volunteer Army, posing as an adjutant to a chief commander, general Kovalevsky. In the spring of 1919, Pavel Andreevitch Koltsov (Yuri Solomin), an agent of the Reds, is sent as the head of the Cheka by Martin Latsis into the Volunteer Army. On the road, he and several other White"
"In 1929 he was deputy assistant to Estreicher. He travelled all over Europe contributing articles to the leading Polish papers. He joined the editorial board of the newspaper ""Czas"" from Kraków, first as a proofreader, then surveying the foreign press, and from 1930, author of a series of reports from Hungary. In 1932 he published his debut book, ""Sarajewo 1914, Szanghaj 1932, Gdańsk 193?"" (Sarajevo 1914, Shanghai 1932, Gdańsk 193?) about Gdańsk. In the 1930s he published in the magazine ""Bunt Młodych"" (Youth Revolt) and was a member of the young conservatives. He travelled in Palestine in 1933 reporting for"
"Stephen Laird Stephen Laird, born Laird Lichtenwalner, was an American journalist, working as a ""Time"" magazine reporter and CBS correspondent. He was also accused of being a Soviet spy, supposedly becoming a Communist in the 1930s and in the 1940s providing information to agents of the Soviet Union. Laird was allegedly recruited by the Soviets while he was at Swarthmore College in the early 1930s. Laird told the ""Allentown Morning Call"" in 1986 that he became close friends with former Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Oleg Troyanovsky, son of Aleksandr A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet ambassador to the United"
"while he was on leave. As a journalist, Nivat is most known for her reporting from Chechnya in 1999-2000 where she worked for ""Ouest France"" and as a special correspondent for ""Libération"". Nivat traveled to Moscow in September 1999, and when the Russians invaded Chechnya, she applied as a journalist for access but was denied. She gained access to the war zone by traveling there disguised as a Chechen woman and reported independently from Russian control. Nivat was in Chechnya for four months while she intermingled and blended with the local population and reported on the conflict during a ban"
"stunts, was spending a day in a circus lion's cage. But he was also the first foreign reporter to interview Adolf Hitler (whom he, despite his fascist sympathies, described as ""a dangerous man"".) He started writing crime stories, first as semi-documentary reports from the view of the reporter or as told by the retired police detective ""Asbjørn Krag"" (modelled on one or two well-known policemen). Soon Krag was developed into a classical private detective (though still with excellent connections to the police force). In 1908 Elvestad (under the pen name Kristian F. Biller) created the police detective Knut Gribb: a"
"1918-1922 Siberian Intervention during the Russian Civil War. At one point, the Bolshevik Red Army captured him. In 1937, he covered the Spanish Civil War. McCullagh died in White Plains, New York in 1956. Francis McCullagh Francis McCullagh (1874 – 26 November 1956) was a British journalist, war correspondent, and author. McCullagh was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, in 1874. He began his journalism career as a staff reporter at the ""Glasgow Observer"" (later ""Scottish Catholic Observer""), and would continue writing for the newspaper through 1906-1937. From 1898, he was a correspondent for the ""New York Herald."" In 1903, he"
"had associated in 1929 during the Gastonia trial), on a passport application for one ""Samuel Liptzen"" with a photo of Gerhart Eisler (identified in 1946 by former Communist and ""Daily Worker"" editor Louis F. Budenz as a ""mastermind"" Soviet spy). By 1935, Josephson was reporting to Alexander Ulanovsky, recently ""rezident"" or Soviet station chief in New York and whose network members included Whittaker Chambers). Ulanovsky had resurfaced in Copenhagen to head Soviet espionage ring that collected military information on Nazi Germany. The Danish police arrested Ulanovsky and two Americans, Leon Josephson and George Mink, following a search of their hotel"
"a Brownie camera when he was 10. As a child, he wanted to be a pilot and got his license at the age of 16. He attended State Teachers College and started his career as a sports reporter for the ""Butler Daily Democrat"". In 1961, he joined the daily newspaper ""Emporia Gazette"" as a photographer, and in 1962 ""The Kansas City Star"" as a reporter-photographer and, in 1966, he moved to Los Angeles to join as a staff photographer for the ""Los Angeles Times"". In 1971, ""National Geographic"" magazine hired O'Rear to document the lives of Russian villagers in Alaska"
"its advantage in atomic weapons. He saw no difference between the various communist countries and warned that both Yugoslavia and China were as bent on communist world domination as was the Soviet Union. Edward Hunter (journalist) Edward Hunter (1902–1978) was an American journalist, author, and intelligence agent who was noted for his anticommunism. Hunter's career in journalism began at the ""Newark Ledger"" in New Jersey before he moved on to the ""Chicago Tribune""'s Paris edition. Hunter worked in Japan and in China from the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, during the Japanese invasion of Manchukuo and its detachment from China. He covered"
"in Riga, Latvia, he received a Soviet visa and an offer from the European Director of the ""Chicago Tribune"", Floyd Gibbons, to be that newspaper’s Northern Europe Correspondent. Day accepted the offer and from August 1921 was the only U.S. reporter in the region. He reported on events in the Baltic States, Finland, and the Soviet Union. His visa for the Soviet Union was withdrawn when he refused to report on the Soviet system in a consistently favorable light. He was unable to comply when faced by the realities of Soviet tyranny and the Communist subversion of Estonia, Latvia, and"
"Many of his works of this genre were put on stage in the USSR, and later in Russia, as well as in CIS countries. Yulian Semyonov bibliography In 1960, reporter Yulian Semyonov became a member of the USSR Union of Writers and after that actively worked as a writer within almost 30 years. Semyonov achieved a wide renown in the USSR with his novel series, “Political Chronicles” by the common name, united by the principal character, Soviet scout Isaev – Stierlitz. Time Magazine's reporter John Kohan defined him as ""the Soviet James Bond"". In the USSR (and later in Russia)"
"on the state of the war. In his study of war correspondents, ""The First Casualty"", Phillip Knightley wrote that ""in Korea, the truth was that Burchett and Winnington were a better source of news than the UN information officers, and if the allied reporters did not see them they risked being beaten on stories"". In 1956 Burchett arrived in Moscow as a correspondent for the ""National Guardian"" newspaper, an American radical leftist weekly. He received a monthly allowance from the Soviet authorities and for the next six years reported on Soviet advances in science and the rebuilding of the post-war"
"Reporter"", where he became a critic and city editor. In 1940, he joined ""The New York World-Telegram"". In 1942 during World War II, he joined the U.S. Army and rose to first lieutenant. On July 21, 1948, the ""World-Telegram"" published a front-page article co-written with Nelson Frank called ""Red Ring Bared by Blond Queen."" The subject was an as-yet unnamed, Mata Hari-like Soviet ex-spy. On July 29, 1948, this unnamed ex-spy would come forward and testify before a Senate investigation committee and again on July 31, 1948, before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The spy's name was Elizabeth Bentley."
"Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Bovin died on 29 April 2004, after a brain hemorrhage. Alexander Bovin Alexander Bovin (, transliteration: ""Alexandr Yevgenyevich Bovin"") (9 August 1930 – 29 April 2004) was a Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat, notable for being the first Soviet, and then Russian ambassador to Israel after the re-establishment of Soviet-Israeli diplomatic relations. He was a leading journalist of Soviet Union and Russia of the late 20th century. ""The New York Times"" called him ""one of the most colorful and daring commentators"