The fate of many television reporters, periodically appearing on the screen, quite often interested in the audience. Curiosity is shown not only to their biographical data, but also to facts concerning personal life.
Tatyana Mitkova: biography
The daughter of a war veteran who worked for a long time at the First Main Directorate of State Security of the Soviet Union, and a worker at the Soviet embassy, Tatyana Mitkova, born on September 13, 1957 in Moscow, lived on early childhood in Switzerland.
Even while studying at an English special school, she attended the School of Young Journalists at Moscow State University.
1982 was marked for Tatyana Rostislavovna by the end of the evening department at the faculty of journalism of the above university.
By this time she was already on the staff of the Central Television of the Allied State Television and Radio. In this structure, she served as editor, senior editor, special correspondent, television commentator in International Panorama, 120 Minutes.
Tatyana Mitkova resigned after the conflict, when in January 1991 she did not announce the comments made by the leaders of Ostankino on the 13th of Vilnius events.
Then she worked as a TV correspondent for the German company ARD.
In 1991, she won the contest, which hosted the leading TV-Inform, in addition, she was awarded the corresponding prize from the American organization for the protection of journalists.
1991-1993 Tatyana conducted information programs at the Ostankino television center.
The difficult period of the emergence of democracy in the 90s
After the events of the State Emergency Committee, Tatyana Mitkova, by order of the head of the State Security Bakatin, got access to archival materials of this closed structure.
As a result of this, a ten-minute video about the facts of cooperation with the State Security Committee of the higher church hierarchs was shown in Novosti. For example, according to Mitkova, Metropolitan Pitirim, as an informant, was assigned the pseudonym "Drozdov" by the secret service.
Director Nikita Mikhalkov made a return telecast where the honor of Pitirim was defended.
Work on NTV
Since 1993, the journalist has joined the ranks of the NTV television company, where she began to conduct the Today news program in the evenings, she led it for 11 years.
In early 1994, she was awarded the Lithuanian medal, issued in honor of the events of January 13. Of interest is the fact that in 2014 she refused this award after her colleague Dmitry Kiselyov was deprived of a similar medal by the President of Lithuania for his freedom-loving statements.
In 1997 Tatyana became the TEFI Prize laureate as the best news anchor.
In late 1998, the Russian Communist Party’s public committee against television journalists declared it an "accomplice of the regime."
At different times, Tatyana Mitkova conducted the television news Today, along with Mikhail Osokin, Pyotr Marchenko, Kirill Pozdnyakov.
In 2006, she was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples in connection with advances in the development of television.
Since 2001, Tatyana Mitkova served as the NTV editor-in-chief, and from 2004 until today, the deputy general director of the television channel in the field of information broadcasting, she also headed the directorate in this area.
10.24.2011 Mitkova went on the air as the presenter in the amended information program "Today. Results.", Which she led until 2014.
About Conflicts
April 2001 was remembered as a serious confrontation, the participants of which were Media-Bridge, headed by Vladimir Gusinsky, and Gazprom-Media OJSC.
Among them, a struggle broke out for the right to own the NTV company. Many journalists of the television company, its leadership, including CEO Evgeni Kiselev, took a certain position in this confrontation, with which Mitkova categorically disagreed.
To protest, she left the NTV team. Tatyana returned as part of the renewed administration after the channel went under the wing of Gazprom Media, which led to the forced departure of the previous team.
Currently, the only employee who has worked at NTV since its inception is Tatyana Mitkova, whose photo rightfully adorns the corridors of the television company.
