Education

Glenn Kates is Managing Editor for Digital at Current Time / Radio Free Europe, a new Russian-language TV channel. His team was the first news organization in the Russian-language news market to pursue a distributed content model, focusing on adapting video content for mobile and social audiences.

Previously Glenn served as a digital editor in Radio Free Europe’s central newsroom, where he helped launch the organization’s popular Ukraine Liveblog and was the producer for a Sochi Olympics investigative project that became a finalist for an Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) award. Before joining RFE/RL in 2012, he worked as a journalist in Russia and at the Moscow bureau of The New York Times, where he monitored and wrote about Russian social media. Glenn’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and other media. In 2014, The Guardian named him one of the “top tweeters on the post-Soviet world.” He holds an M.A. in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science from Binghamton University.