Summary
Aleksandr Amzin is an experienced media publisher, product manager and consultant with 12 years of practice building and advising digital news products across Russia, the CIS and Western Europe. He founded themedia.center, a case-study almanac reaching tens of thousands of media, PR and marketing professionals monthly, and currently publishes the Signal newsletter that untangles propaganda and media spin. His background spans leadership roles at The Bell and Medmedia (sites with 10M+ MAU), product and media relations work at Yandex, and editorial management at Lenta.ru, giving him rare fluency across editorial, product and growth. For more than a decade he taught online news journalism at Moscow State University and authored both a textbook and a practical lifehack collection, blending theory with hands-on workflows. Colleagues know him for pragmatic information architecture and relaunch strategies for legacy outlets and corporations like Norilsk Nickel and Rambler. Based in Berlin, he combines startup energy with institutional experience and a knack for turning complex newsroom challenges into scalable product and training solutions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian