Tamar Kintsurashvili

Tamara Kinzuraschwili ( born May 8, 1970 in Zqaltubo, Georgia) is a Georgian journalist. Since August 2005 she has been Director General of the Public Broadcasting of Georgia ( SSM).

Life

She studied journalism at the State University of Tbilisi, did internships at daily newspapers New York Times and Washington Post and Reuters. In 1994, she took off her exams.

From 1993 to 1995 she worked as a freelancer for Georgia's first non-partisan newspaper, Droni (German Time ). In 1995 she was there political editor, deputy editor in 1999. As of October 1999, she wrote for the U.S. newspaper Deseret News. In 2001 she moved temporarily as a public relations manager for the Georgian- French wine producer Castel Georgia.

In the same year she was employee of the Freedom Institute in Tbilisi, took over the management of the program for communication and media. She wrote and published standard works on the Georgian press freedom and media self-regulation.

In March 2005, she was elected by the Georgian Parliament in the Board of Trustees of the Public Broadcasting of Georgia, where she aufrückte Deputy Board Chairman. On August 22, she chose the Board of Trustees for six years for the General Board of the broadcaster. She finished based on patronage, traditional staff structures, subjected all employees of a qualitative evaluation and hired new employees.

Kinzuraschwili is unmarried. She speaks Georgian, English and Russian.

Works

• Freedom of Expression in USA and in Europe. Vol 1, Liberty Institute, Tbilisi 2005 ( ed.)
• Freedom of Expression in Georgia. Vol 2, Liberty Institute, Tbilisi 2005 ( with Zurab Adeishvili )
• Media and Law. Liberty Institute, Tbilisi 2004 ( ed.)
• The media self-regulation guide. Liberty Institute, Tbilisi 2003 ( ed.)
• Professional standard of the media. Liberty Institute, Tbilisi 2002