Jill Dougherty (born 1949) is an

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n journalist and academic. She is considered an expert on

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and the former

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. She worked as a correspondent for

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for three decades. She served as White House Correspondent, Foreign Affairs correspondent covering the US State Department, US Affairs Editor, Managing Editor for CNN Asia/Pacific, and for almost a decade, as

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Bureau Chief. Dougherty began her career as a Russian-language broadcaster and writer for

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, USSR Division. After three decades at CNN, she left in 2013, but continues to report on Russia as an analyst and independent consultant.

Education

Dougherty received her bachelor's degree in Slavic Languages and Literature from the

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and her master's degree from

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, where she researched Russia's soft power diplomacy. She was a Benton Fellow in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Chicago, as well as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. As an undergraduate Dougherty also studied at Leningrad State University in the Soviet Union. Dougherty spent much of her career as a journalist and in 2014 she started also contributing as fellow at academic activities. She was Centennial Fellow and instructor at

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Personal life

Dougherty was diagnosed with

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in 1999 at age 50.

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