Letter Writing to Support Evan Gershkovich
May 3 2023
WHEN:
May 3, 2023 at 11:00am
WHERE:
Bloomberg Room
CONTACT INFO:
Cecily Scott Martin
MORE INFO:
Special Event
Join us on World Press Freedom Day in support of Evan Gershkovich. The Wall Street Journal is collecting messages for the detained reporter and his family.
We will be gathering to write letters at 11 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room.
About Evan
Evan Gershkovich is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covers Russia, Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.
In March 2023, he was arrested in Russia while on a reporting trip and accused of spying, making him the first American journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the Cold War. The Journal vehemently denies the allegations. President Biden and news organizations around the world have joined the Journal in calling for Mr. Gershkovich’s immediate release.
Mr. Gershkovich, the American son of Soviet-born Jewish exiles, grew up in New Jersey. He graduated from Bowdoin College, a liberal-arts school in Maine, in 2014.
Before joining the Journal in January 2022, Mr. Gershkovich was a reporter for Agence France-Presse and the Moscow Times. He was also a news assistant at the New York Times.