Michael Schwirtz's guest appearances

Michael Schwirtz

The Lawfare Podcast

The Russia Guy

KIRO Nights with Jake Skorheim

Bernie Sanders

Keith Gessen

Maria Butina

Christopher Miller

Ivan Golunov

Rob Lee

Mark Galeotti

Kate Brown

Alina Polyakova

Natalia Roudakova

Miriam Elder

David Klion

Yasha Levine

Ariel Cohen

Emily Holland

OwlTail

On today’s show, “The Russia Guy” welcomes Michael Schwirtz, a journalist from The New York Times staff who just won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. The award was granted for “a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime.” The newspaper's winning work includes six articles and two documentary videos published in 2019. Now an investigative reporter with The New York Times, Michael has been with the newspaper for 14 years, having started in the Moscow bureau and then working at the Metro Desk, first covering the New York City Policy Department, then as part of Metro's investigative team, reporting about brutality and corruption in the New York State prison system and at Rikers Island in New York City. The four winning works that Michael authored or co-authored are the following:“Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.””Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say”* “How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader”* “How a Poisoning in Bulgaria Exposed Russian Assassins in Europe”You can read them all here:https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-new-york-timesFollow Michael Schwirtz on Twitter here:https://twitter.com/mschwirtzSupport this very podcast here:www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockMusic and audio:Ну погоди, episode 14, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&amp;t=7sОлег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock)

On today’s show, “The Russia Guy” welcomes Michael Schwirtz, a journalist from The New York Times staff who just won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. The award was granted for “a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime.”  The newspaper's winning work includes six articles and two documentary videos published in 2019. Now an investigative reporter with The New York Times, Michael has been with the newspaper for 14 years, having started in the Moscow bureau and then working at the Metro Desk, first covering the New York City Policy Department, then as part of Metro's investigative team, reporting about brutality and corruption in the New York State prison system and at Rikers Island in New York City.  The four winning works that Michael authored or co-authored are the following:<ul><li>“Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.”</li><li>”Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say”* “How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader”* “How a Poisoning in Bulgaria Exposed Russian Assassins in Europe”</li></ul> You can read them all here:<a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-new-york-times" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-new-york-times</a> Follow Michael Schwirtz on Twitter here:<a href="https://twitter.com/mschwirtz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mschwirtz</a> Support this very podcast here: <a href="http://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock</a> Music and audio: Ну погоди, episode 14, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&amp;t=7s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&amp;t=7s</a> Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> (<a href="https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock</a>)

E106: Michael Schwirtz on Journalism and the NYT's Pulitzer Prize