Tikhon Viktorovich Dzyadko (Russian: Тихон Викторович Дзядко, IPA:[ˈtʲixəndzʲɪtˈko]; born June 23, 1987) is a Russian journalist, television presenter and media manager. He is the editor-in-chief of the TV Rain channel, former deputy editor-in-chief and host of the RTVI TV network. He previously worked at the radio station Echo of Moscow and the Ukrainian channel Inter.
He worked at the portal Polit.ru [ru]. From 2007 to 2012 he worked as a correspondent in Russia for the international organisation Reporters Without Borders.
From 2005 to 2013 he worked as a correspondent and presenter at the radio station Echo of Moscow, hosted the programmes Разворот, Одним словом, Обложка-1 and Супервласть.[1][2]
From May 2010 to October 2013, together with his brothers Philipp [Wikidata] and Timofei [ru], he led the weekly public affairs programme Dzyadko3 on TV Rain.[3] Since May 24, 2011, on the same TV channel he has hosted the weekly Hard Day's Night programme.[4] In 2012, Tikhon was nominated for the Made in Russia award for the programme.[5][6]
In August 2015, he left TV Rain to start working on the TV channel Inter in Washington, D.C. He started working as a news anchor on RTVI in 2016. From January 2018 to December 2019 he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the TV channel.
In December 2019, Dzyadko became the chief editor of TV Rain, replacing Alexandra Perepelova in this position.[9][10]
Family
Tikhon's father, Dzyadko Viktor Mikhailovich (1955—2020), was a programmer, Soviet human rights activist and artist.[11] His mother Zoya Svetova is a journalist and human rights activist.[12] He has two brothers, Philipp and Timofey.[13][14]