Anatoly Kurmanaev

Anatoly Kurmanaev   (journalist)
Born	Novosibirsk, Russia
Nationality	US (Born: Russian)
Journalist in corporate media including Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times  Moscow Correspondent In office 2022 - Present Employer New York Times  Venezuela Correspondent In office February 2019 - May 2021 Employer New York Times "Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense."  Venezuela Reporter In office October 2015 - February 2019 Employer Wall Street Journal "Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense."  Economy & Government Reporter In office December 2012 - October 2015 Employer Bloomberg "Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense."

Anatoly Kurmanaev is a journalist in corporate media including Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Career

Kurmanaev built his journalism career in Latin America, where he arrived in 2010 as a young freelancer. He spent the following decade covering the region's economy and politics for a range of publications, including at Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He joined The New York Times's Moscow bureau in late 2022.

Opinions

“"Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense. You’re there to provide information to a particular client that they find important and it's not good or bad, it’s just the way it is...A couple of times from my experience you try to use, I wouldn’t call them 'cheap tricks', but yeah, kind of sexy tricks. Just last week we had a story about condom shortages in Venezuela. At the official exchange rate condoms were at like $750 dollars or something and the headline was something like ‘$750 dollar condom in Venezuela’ and everyone clicks it, everyone is like 'Jesus, why do they sell it for like $750?'" (We don't learn until the ninth paragraph of Kurmanaev's article that a pack of condoms actually cost about the same as it did in the US at the time.)”
Anatoly Kurmanaev (2019) 

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