Paula Slier
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Paula Slier is a television, radio and print journalist who heads up her own company in the Middle East called Newshound. She is also the Middle East bureau chief and correspondent for a 24-hour English channel network, broadcasting in English from Moscow.
Slier started her career with several years working as a news anchor, correspondent and news editor with the South African Broadcasting Corporation
before joining Russia Today.
She has reported from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, the Palestinian territories, Serbia, Bosnia, Africa and Europe, including from both Israel and Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
She later reported from Israel and Gaza during Operation Cast Lead at the end of December 2008.
She was one of the few correspondents working for Russian television to report from Tbilisi, Georgia, during the South Ossetian conflict in 2008. She also spent several months in Kosovo covering the Serb reaction to Kosovo’s declaration of independence. She covered the arrest and extradition of wartime Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
from Serbia and was one of the few foreign journalists to be granted interviews with his daughter and brother.
She has interviewed leading politicians including Israeli president Shimon Peres
, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniye and the former foreign minister of the Soviet Union Eduard Shevardnadze
.
Slier started her career with several years working as a news anchor, correspondent and news editor with the South African Broadcasting Corporation
South African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African Broadcasting Corporation is the state-owned broadcaster in South Africa and provides 18 radio stations as well as 3 television broadcasts to the general public.-Early years:Radio broadcasting began in South Africa in 1923...
before joining Russia Today.
She has reported from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, the Palestinian territories, Serbia, Bosnia, Africa and Europe, including from both Israel and Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
She later reported from Israel and Gaza during Operation Cast Lead at the end of December 2008.
She was one of the few correspondents working for Russian television to report from Tbilisi, Georgia, during the South Ossetian conflict in 2008. She also spent several months in Kosovo covering the Serb reaction to Kosovo’s declaration of independence. She covered the arrest and extradition of wartime Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadžic
Radovan Karadžić is a former Bosnian Serb politician. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre.Educated as a...
from Serbia and was one of the few foreign journalists to be granted interviews with his daughter and brother.
She has interviewed leading politicians including Israeli president Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres
GCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniye and the former foreign minister of the Soviet Union Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze is a former Soviet, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. He served as President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, and as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , from 1972 to 1985. Shevardnadze was responsible for many top decisions on...
.