Tatyana Gennadievna Lysova[a] (Russian: Татьяна Геннадьевна Лысова, born 18 March 1968) is a Russian journalist and media manager. Former editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper (2002—2007, 2010–2017) and former first deputy chief editor of the Meduza newspaper. Laureate of the 8th prize "Media Manager of Russia — 2008" (nomination "Print media. Newspapers").[1]
After graduation, Lysova worked as a system programmer at a research and development centre for the defence industry.[3] From 1994 to 1995 she was a correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper. From 1995 to 1999 she was the editor of the companies department of the Expert magazine.[2]
Since 1999 she worked as the editor of the Energoresursy (Russian: Энергоресурсы) department of the Vedomosti newspaper.[2] From January 2000 to December 2002 she held the position of deputy editor-in-chief, and then – first deputy editor-in-chief, from spring to December 2002 – chief editor, and from December 2002[4] to 2007 – editor-in-chief of Vedomosti.
Since April 2007 Tatyana was the editorial director and headed the development strategy of the company Business News Media, which published Vedomosti.[2][5][6]
From March 2010 to May 2017 she was the editor-in-chief of Vedomosti.[5][7][8] From April 2013 she was responsible for the website vedomosti.ru.[9] She was one of the authors of the internal rules of Vedomosti, those rules as a textbook on journalism was studied by employees of dozens of Russian media outlets.[10][11]
From January 2018 to December 2019 she worked as deputy chief editor of the Interfax political information service.[10][11][12]
In January 2020, she became the first deputy chief editor of the Meduza newspaper.[10][11] In August 2021, it became known that Lysova left Meduza and began working as the head of the investment department of Alfa-Bank.[13]
