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Robyn Dixon

Robyn Dixon is a journalist and Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post . [1]

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Early life and career

Dixon was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. [2] She graduated from Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne. [3] Her mother is a housewife and her father is a judge in the County Court of Victoria. [2] Since 1978, Dixon has worked as an editor for The Herald newspaper in Australia. From 1993, she worked as a Moscow correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for four years. [4] [3]

Since 1999, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times . In 2003, she moved with her daughter Sylvia to Johannesburg, South Africa, where she became bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times; [4] and in 2018 she became bureau chief in Beijing, China. [3] [5]

Since November 2019, she has been the Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post. [6]

Dixon speaks English, Russian and French. [3]

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