Press Release
The Paul Klebnikov Fund Awards 2007 Prize for Excellence in Journalism to a Business Editor from Yekaterinburg, Russia
October 3, 2007
New York, NY – The Paul Klebnikov Fund will award its 2007 Prize for Excellence in Journalism to Anton Kazarin, editor-in-chief of the independent Yekaterinburg based weekly business magazine Delovoy Kvartal. As part of the prize, Kazarin will participate in a five-week fellowship at South Florida Business Journal.
Delovoy Kvartal, a network of local privately owned business weeklies founded in 1994, is the first such endeavor to be initiated outside of the capital, Moscow. Under Anton Kazarin's leadership, the magazine is published in 7 of Russia's largest regional centers, helping local businesspeople to more successfully manage private enterprises.
"It is very hard to develop an independent network of local business magazines in Russia," said Anton Kazarin when talking about his eagerness to benefit from exposure to U.S. standards of producing a publication and managing a newsroom, as well as free market frameworks. "This will be especially important as Russia is attempting to join the World Trade Organization and has to reconsider many of its traditional business ways."
Kazarin will receive the award at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) annual dinner in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2007.
- International Center for Journalists 2007 Award Dinner
- Kazarin's Acceptance Speech to the International Center for Journalists
About Anton Kazarin
Anton Kazarin is an accomplished journalist and head of an independent weekly magazine Delovoi Kvartal, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Since becoming editor-in-chief of the magazine in 2006, he has increased circulation by 30% and has initiated an educational and training program for the publication's business reporters and editors.
About the Fund
The Paul Klebnikov Fund upholds the growth of civil society in Russia by supporting journalistic integrity, the rule of law and the preservation of its cultural heritage. The Fund awards an annual prize to a journalist whose work advances Paul's vision of journalism as a means of social growth.
