RBC TV appoints new Chief Editor
MOSCOW. July 22 (Interfax) - Alexander Lyubimov will quit his post as chief editor of Russian news channel RBC TV on August 1 to focus on his job as the channels CEO.
Andrei Reut, Lyubimov's deputy, will be the new chief editor, a source from the television channel told Interfax.
Reut was born in 1975. He worked at the Volgograd newspaper Fondovy Vedemosti and headed the social and political information department at information agency AK&M. In 2001-2004 he was a Kremlin pool commentator and editor of the politics department at the Gazeta newspaper. From 2004-2011 he was editor of the economy department and deputy editor-in-chief of Izvestiya. He was appointed deputy chief editor of RBC in 2011 and he participated in a reorganization.
"Ambitious challenges have been set before me that the RBC team can carry out. But to do this we need to continue with the reforms we have begun - to maintain the channel, the video content and the team," Reut told Interfax.
RBC TV is part of the RBC holding company that is controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim group.