Famous American journalist turns out to have Ukrainian roots

The former president of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Anne Nelson, currently teaches at Columbia University in New York and has Ukrainian roots.

Anne (Anna) comes from the Mykolayiv Region, her father still lives in the Mykolayiv Region, and her son works within a volunteer mission in Kramatorsk, according to the latest issue of the Visti Snihurivshchyny.

While in New York, Sergiy Tomilenko, the President of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), got acquainted with Anne Nelson and handed one of the issues of Visti Snihurivshchyny over to her.

“By the way, it was the NUJU to help the newspaper resume its publishing after the long-term occupation of Snihurivka,” the publication says.

NUJU Information Service