NYT to re-open Warsaw bureau
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
17.04.2014 09:08
Reversing a trend for foreign media to close permanent offices in Poland, the New York Times has announced it will be opening a central and eastern European bureau in Warsaw.
NYT building in New York: photo - wiki
The office will be run by journalist Rick Lyman, who first worked for the NYT in 1997 as a culture reporter, eventually becoming Houston Bureau Chief.
He's also worked at The Kansas City Star and The Philadelphia Inquirer and was part of a team that shared a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on a story on the collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City that killed 114 people.
Lyman has also worked as a correspondent from South Africa, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, China, Turkey, Mexico and Honduras.
On 29 March, NYT's new Warsaw bureau chief, a job he starts this summer, tweeted: "Had a massive meal at a Polish place in Greenpoint - white borscht in bread bowl, potato pirogies, ham, stuffed cabbage. Need stomach pump."
Warsaw was full of international media bureaus, including a NYT office after the fall of communism, but newspapers began closing down offices as life in Poland 'normalized' as democracy developed. (pg)
source: PAP