NYT opens Warsaw bureau
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
29.08.2014 15:03
Reversing a trend for foreign media to close permanent offices in Poland, the New York Times has opened a central and eastern European bureau in Warsaw.
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The bureau is run by journalist Rick Lyman, who first worked for the NYT in 1997 as a culture reporter, eventually becoming Houston Bureau Chief.
He's also worked at The Kansas City Star and The Philadelphia Inquirer and was part of a team that shared a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on a story on the collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City that killed 114 people.
"I think that maybe America has lost the thread of the story a little bit and we need to re-acquaint ourselves with what's going on here,” he tells Polish Radio.
“Maybe there's just not one new story to be told about the region but individual stories about individual countries which are going,as you would expect, in many different directions" Mr. Lyman says, adding that he will be covering 17 countries in the region for the New York Times.
Rick Lyman was talking to Danuta Isler.