Lindsay France

Lindsay France is an American journalist focusing on 2016 election politics and voter issues^[1] for RT America. At the Democratic National Convention, Lindsay because a ^[2] focus of The New York Times reporting of an alleged Russian hack into the Democratic National Committee emails.

Early Life

Lindsay France grew up in Wenatchee, Washington and attended Wenatchee High School.^[3] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in International Affairs from Seattle Pacific University and served as the school's Amnesty International chapter president.

Career

Prior to her work at RT America, Lindsay was based in Moscow with ^[4] RT International. She delivered extensive live coverage on the ^[5] ground from Moscow's Sheremtyevo Airport, where National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden took refuge from the American government after his public disclosure of top secret information. She anchored breaking news of the suicide terrorist bombing in ^[6] Volgograd, the ^[7] Boston Marathon bombing, the ^[8] Iran nuclear deal, riots in ^[9] Kiev's Maidan Square and the 2014 Winter Olympics ^[10] in Sochi.

While based in Russia, much of her reporting focused on domestic issues such as post-Soviet ^[11] graft,^[12] racism,^[13] homophobia and animal cruelty laws,^[14] orphans,^[15] human trafficking, and the Russian space program,^[16] Roscosmos. From Kazakhstan, France delivered a three-part ^[17] series on the devasting effects of the Soviet planned economy on the Aral Sea. France returned to Kazakhstan in 2011 to cover the blast off of voyage 29 to the International Space Station.

She began her career at CNN based in New York, where she assisted with the coverage of the 2004 presidential elections, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the London bombings and Hurricane Katrina.

Awards

Lindsay was ^[18] awarded the Steinbrenner Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.

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