TV presenter and journalist Mikhail Osokin

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The once popular television presenter has disappeared from the blue screens of the country for several years. Mikhail Osokin is now engaged in literary and journalistic activities, as he himself says. His articles regularly appear in various publications, including the Interlocutor, where he works as a columnist. The presenter is not going to return to radio and television, because he likes a quiet creative activity, when a journalist can write about what he is interested in.

Origin

Mikhail Glebovich Osokin was born on January 14, 1952 in Tver. Mother Anastasia Ivanovna Osokina and stepfather Viktor Kadievich Magataev worked on television in Novosibirsk, then they were invited to organize Volgograd TV. The director of which later worked as the mother of Mikhail Osokin. His own father was for some time an announcer on the Tver radio, then in the magazines "Peasant Woman" and "Around the World". With thisOn the other hand, he has German roots, great-great-grandfather Osokina - a state councilor, lived in Courland, and later moved to the central regions of the country.

Osokin's parents divorced before the birth of their son. After Anastasia Ivanovna remarried, Mikhail had a younger brother, Alexander Magataev. The latter worked for a long time in the editorial office of the Seven Days publishing house, and then became a project manager at the Russian Nanotechnologies company.

Early years

Childhood years of Mikhail Osokin were spent in Volgograd, where he studied at a school with in-depth study of the English language. He began to take an early interest in politics: he read the British Communist Party newspaper Morning Star and listened to broadcasts from the banned Radio Liberty. After graduating from high school, Osokin entered the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

However, from the second year he was expelled for participating in a protest action: during the harvesting of potatoes, a group of students were outraged by poor living conditions. Activists were expelled from the Komsomol, which then meant automatic expulsion from the university. In the same year, Osokin was drafted into the army, Mikhail served in the air defense forces, as a squad leader, and was a transport aircraft mechanic.

After demobilization, he re-entered the university, graduating in 1975. Then he continued his education as a part-time postgraduate student at Moscow State University, in 1983 he defended his Ph. D. thesis on the history of the Middle East

Getting Started

Immediately after graduation, when he could not get a job in his speci alty, friends invited Mikhail Osokin to the radio. From 1977 to 1999, he worked as a broadcast editor for the US and UK on the Moscow Radio World Service. At that time, many later famous journalists worked there, including Vladimir Pozner and Alexander Lyubimov.

In 1990, he went to work for Central Television in the information department. As TV presenter Mikhail Osokin writes in his biography, he was accidentally offered a place when the editors of the Vremya program were looking for new faces. At first, he did the same thing as on the radio - he commented, prepared stories on various international topics. And since 1991, Osokin became the host of news releases, first nightly, and then evening.

NTV face

Since the founding of the new TV channel in October 1993, Osokin has worked as a presenter of various information programs. He worked at the NTV television company from 1993 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2006. For many viewers, TV presenter Mikhail Osokin is primarily associated with this channel, where he hosted the program "Today". Many have noted that he is the only American type presenter on Russian television: an elderly, intelligent and calm man who tells stories. The journalist himself believes that such an image has a calming effect on the audience.

From 2006 to 2008 he was the host of the information program "Now" on the international channel RTVi, which broadcasts in Russian oncountries of the post-Soviet space. Then for several years he led the final news releases on the REN TV channel. The last television work was the program "What happened? with Mikhail Osokin", broadcast on YouTube. Since 2014 he has been writing columns in various publications, since 2017 in Story magazine.

Personal Information

Almost nothing is known about Mikhail Osokin's first family. Only that the daughter from her first marriage, Anna Osokina, after graduating from the journalism department of Moscow State University, works on television as an editor for the information service of Channel One.

With his second wife, Elena Savina, Osokin worked for a long time on various television channels. She was the chief editor of almost all of her husband's programs. It was Savina who suggested for the author's program "What happened?" combine drawings with news releases. The cartoons for the broadcast were drawn by Mikhail Glebovich himself.

Osokin is fluent in English and French, knows ancient Greek and Latin well. She loves to read and collects rare stamps. Roller skating. On NTV for a long time it was believed that he gets to work on them. However, Mikhail Glebovich himself said that he simply took skates to work in order to skate later. And from the center of Moscow to Ostankino, you simply cannot get there on roller skates.