Florence Gallez

Florence Gallez was a Moscow-based journalist for eight years, most recently as a freelance producer for CNN's Moscow Bureau. She has covered Russian politics, economy and culture for print, broadcast and electronic media organizations, including The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Moscow Times, and the U.S. publisher Bureau of National Affairs. She has reported for the BBC World Service in Budapest and for the Russian daily Segodnya in London. At MIT she is developing a new system for collaborative online news production. She holds a BA in English and Russian from the University of London and a MSc in journalism from Boston University, with additional course work at Harvard. A lifelong Prince fan with an interest in copyright and cyber rights, she has covered Russia’s IP issues and legislation for BNA, and in her spare time she dreams of creating the “ultimate Prince music distribution system.”