Robyn Dixon is a journalist and Moscow bureau chief for ''

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''.

Early life and career

Dixon was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne , motto_translation = The law of God is the Lamp of Life , established = 1875 , type = Independent, single-sex, day and boarding, Christian school , denomination = Presbyterian , princip ...

. Her mother is a housewife and her father is a judge in the

County Court of Victoria The County Court of Victoria is the intermediate court in the Australian state of Victoria. It is equivalent to district courts in the other states. The County Court is the principal trial court in the state, having a broad criminal and c ...

. Since 1978, Dixon has worked as an editor for The Herald newspaper in Australia. From 1993, she worked as a Moscow correspondent for ''

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'' and ''

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'' for four years. Since 1999, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''

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''. In 2003, she moved with her daughter Sylvia to

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, South Africa, where she became bureau chief for the ''Los Angeles Times''; and in 2018 she became bureau chief in Beijing, China.'''' Since November 2019, she has been the Moscow bureau chief for ''

.'' Dixon speaks English, Russian and French.

Awards

* 2007

Sigma Delta Chi Award The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism. The SPJ states the purpose of the award is to promote "the free flow of information vital ...

for international reporting; * 2008

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is a journalism award named after Robert F. Kennedy and awarded by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The annual awards are issued in several categories and were esta ...

for "outstanding reporting of the lives and strife of disadvantaged people throughout the world"; * 2008 Citation by the

Overseas Press Club The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member, as was the war correspondent Peggy Hull. The club seeks to maintain a ...

in relation to the Joe and Laurie Dine award for international reporting dealing with human rights; * 2009 Batten Medal by the

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; * 2009

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Award for courage and integrity in reporting; * 2016 Madeline Dane Ross Award by the Overseas Press Club for the "best international reporting in print or digital showing a concern for the human condition".

References

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