Anatoly Kurmanaev

Anatoly Kurmanaev LinkedIn Twitter (Journalist)
Born	Novosibirsk,Russia
Nationality	US (Born: Russian)
Journalist in corporate media including Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times

Anatoly Kurmanaev is a journalist in corporate media including Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Career

Kurmanaev built his journalism career in Latin America, where he arrived in 2010 as a young freelancer. He spent the following decade covering the region's economy and politics for a range of publications, including at Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He joined The New York Times's Moscow bureau in late 2022.

Opinions

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“"Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense. You’re there to provide information to a particular client that they find important and it's not good or bad, it’s just the way it is...A couple of times from my experience you try to use, I wouldn’t call them 'cheap tricks', but yeah, kind of sexy tricks. Just last week we had a story about condom shortages in Venezuela. At the official exchange rate condoms were at like $750 dollars or something and the headline was something like ‘$750 dollar condom in Venezuela’ and everyone clicks it, everyone is like 'Jesus, why do they sell it for like $750?'" (We don't learn until the ninth paragraph of Kurmanaev's article that a pack of condoms actually cost about the same as it did in the US at the time.)”
Anatoly Kurmanaev (2019) 

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