Eve Conant
As a college student traveling in Russia, she became entranced by the changes taking place.
“I was hanging out as student, but I wasn’t chronicling anything,” she says. She went back to school, and two years later moved back to Moscow.
She realized that working in journalism would be the perfect way for her to express the intricacies of a country in transition, a country for which she had a personal love. “I always thought the life of a foreign correspondent was a really sexy job,” she says. “It really attracted me. Once I got to Moscow, I already spoke Russian, and I realized I could do it. I was at a place where I could be doing it in a worthwhile way. And so those two things clicked.”
Conant started out her career on the assignment desk for NBC News and worked for Voice of America Radio. She also previously worked for Newsweek as a stringer in Moscow and in Washington, D.C. She has contributed to The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and Vogue.
In her new role at Newsweek, she hopes to “perfect” what she says Newsweek does best: staying ahead of the curve.