Korzun Sergey Lvovich is a well-known Russian journalist, writer and public figure. Many people know him as the founding father of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. In addition, Sergei Lvovich is a respected professor-teacher at the Department of Media and Communications at the Higher School of Economics.
Sergei Korzun: biography of early years
The future journalist was born on February 14, 1956 in Moscow. All of Sergei's childhood was spent in the capital of the USSR. Here he studied at the 24th specialized school with in-depth study of the French language. After receiving secondary education in 1978, he entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Torez at the Faculty of French.
It should be noted that Sergei Korzun showed himself as an active member of society from a young age. While studying at the university, he joined the ranks of student construction teams and fully supported their work. He not only fulfilled the tasks assigned to him, but also tried to convey the ideas of their organization to others.
Besides, Sergei Korzun worked as an announcer at the USSR State Radio and Television. At first it was just a practiceallowing to master the French language (he conducted broadcasts for Foreign Broadcasting). But soon the spirit of journalism completely took over him, which led to the fact that Korzun remained the announcer of the state company until 1990.
Birth of Ekho Moskvy
In early 1990, Sergei Korzun, together with his like-minded people, decides to create a potentially new radio station, Ekho Moskvy. In those years, they set themselves only one goal - to convey to the people the whole truth about the situation in the world and their country. And it just so happened that their project not only survived the difficult struggle for broadcasting, but was able to overtake all its competitors.
Nevertheless, in 1996, Sergei Korzun leaves the post of director of the company. This was due to the fact that he saw himself as a freelance journalist rather than the head of such a large-scale organization. But despite his departure, he was active in improving the quality of broadcasting on Ekho Moskvy.
Under his leadership, such programs as “Ivanov. Petrov. Sidorov”, “Delo”, “Pros and Cons”, as well as “Facing the People”. Some of these projects eventually made their way to television, which only strengthened the reputation of the journalist.
Careers outside radio
Since 1996, Sergei Korzun has been actively cooperating with the REN-TV-7 television company. It is here that he brings to life most of his first ideas and reports. This leads to the fact that in 1998 he was entrusted with the position of editor-in-chief of the REN-TV news block. However, a year later he leaves this post, ashis vision of the world was fundamentally different from what the channel's management had.
Between 2001 and 2013 is active as a journalist on various radio and TV channels:
- 2002 - editor at Radio News Online;
- 2003 - creator and presenter of the Internet portal PolitX;
- 2004 - own project on NTV "Secrets of Intelligence";
- 2007 - general producer of Businness FM station;
- 2009 – editor-in-chief of the Voice of Russia, oversaw broadcasting to Latin America and Europe;
- 2010 - one of the main producers of United Media Management Company;
- 2013 - post of the editor-in-chief in "Media Network Visor".
Farewell to Ekho Moskvy
In the spring of 2015, Sergei Korzun completely severed all ties with the leadership of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. This was due to the fact that the journalist could not forgive the chief editor Alexei Venediktov for his policy of "censorship". In his words: “That “Echo” that we created in the early 90s has already died - it does not exist. Now we easily sacrifice the main values for the benefit of the rating and the desires of the audience.”
Since 2015, Sergei Korzun has been broadcasting weekly on one of the French radio stations, where he briefly outlines the situation in Russia. In addition, in 2015 he was invited by the Higher School of Economics as a journalist-teacher at the Faculty of Media, Design and Communications.
