Russian Journalist Who Protested War on Live TV Hired by German Media Group Welt
- Welt says Ovsyannikova to write for newspaper and appear on TV
- Reporter interrupted TV news program with an anti-war placard
Marina Ovsyannikova
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Germany’s Welt media outlet has hired Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who interrupted Russia’s most-watched television news show with an anti-war protest last month in a rare public criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ovsyannikova, 43, will serve as a freelance correspondent for the Welt newspaper and its television channel reporting from Russia and Ukraine, according to a statement Monday from parent company Axel Springer SE.