Galina Timchenko: the path of a journalist

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:45

A bright journalist with an interesting professional life - Galina Timchenko. She attracts attention with her sharp statements and bright projects. Her biography is full of mysteries and dark spots. How is the fate of this strong woman?

Childhood and youth

On May 8, 1962, a girl, Galina Timchenko, was born in an ordinary Moscow family. Her childhood was the most typical: kindergarten, school. Timchenko herself does not like to talk about her youth, she is characterized by closeness, so she does not distribute information about herself. After school, Galina, at the insistence of her mother, enters the 3rd Medical Institute in Moscow and studies there for five years, but in her last year she leaves the university, having considerably aggravated relations with her relatives, and also upset her supervisor. But Galina explains her act like this: “I didn’t want to spend more time on what I was never going to do in my life.” Maximalism and radicalism are Timchenko's main character traits, which have become her signature style.

The beginning of a journalist's journey

Nothing is known about the first steps in the career of journalist Galina Timchenko. She obviously worked for somesometimes in minor positions, but no one has ever told about this anywhere. If there are people in journalism who write their own life story, then this is Galina Timchenko. The biography of the woman, about whom she openly talks, began with a high start - she came to work at the Kommersant newspaper as an editor. This publication is known for making very high demands on personnel, so it is obvious that Timchenko has been able to achieve a lot in her new profession in 10 years after leaving medicine. She worked at Kommersant for 2 years and in 1999, during a severe crisis in the publishing business, she decided to change the editorial board.

With "Tape" for life

In difficult times, Timchenko, like many journalists, was looking for additional work. This led her to the editorial office of the news site Lenta.ru. At the same time, at first she did not know anything about the work of the online publication, but she was able to go from an employee of the monitoring department to the chief editor. She headed the publication for 10 years, and during this time the site entered the top five most cited Russian-language media and became the fifth most visited in 2013 among all news resources in Europe. Timchenko completely restructured the site, assembled a brilliant team of professional newsmakers, and ensured that the publication met the news needs of people from all walks of life. She expanded the genre diversity of the publication, it appeared videos, sharp reports and interviews. "Lenta" began to form the agenda, people are used to getting the full picture of the news on one site. At the same time, Timchenko faithfully observed the principleobjectivity of journalism, and it was impossible to accuse her of bias.

In March 2014, Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Lenta because the journalist's article contained a reference to a statement by an opposition nationalist from Ukraine. The owner of the Lenta.ru resource quickly took action and fired Galina Timchenko. This event stirred up certain segments of the population, who started talking about increasing pressure on the press. Timchenko did not comment on her resignation and, as is her nature, she kept her feelings to herself. The site team actively objected to Timchenko's dismissal, and almost all of her colleagues followed her into her new project.

Meduza

After leaving Lenta.ru, Timchenko pauses for a while, she teaches, actively participates in various programs of TV Rain, radio Ekho Moskvy. But already in October 2014, she announced the launch of a new news project, Meduza. The team was made up of former employees of Lenta, and Galina Timchenko became the head. Meduza is located in Riga and has a fairly pronounced opposition to the Russian government. The media attributed participation in the project to the released Mikhail Khodorkovsky, but Timchenko did not confirm these speculations. In the three months of its existence, Meduza has collected about 1.3 million visitors. The goal of the project is to publish the most interesting news of the day in Russian, while the requirement of objectivity remains immutable for Timchenko.

Privatelife

A good journalist not only knows how to find information, but also skillfully hides it, and Galina Timchenko is no exception. The personal life of a journalist is under the strictest ban, and no one can say anything about her hypothetical spouse, although it is known that once she was definitely married. Since no details of private life leak into the media, journalists conclude that it simply does not exist. Timchenko never talks about her ex-husband or children. She is obsessed with work and it takes all her time. Journalists lead an active life, Galina Timchenko also often appears at various events. Photos of her, however, never capture satellites that look like a life partner. Thus, the idea that Timchenko lives exclusively for work seems the most likely. Or she is a genius of disguise, and she succeeds in what remains impossible for all the celebrities of the world.