Andrey Norkin is a journalist, presenter of television programs and radio broadcasts, laureate of the TEFI-2006 national prize, member of the Academy of Russian Television since 2007.
Childhood and adolescence
The future journalist was born into a Muscovite family in 1968. His extraordinary creativity manifested itself in his school years. The boy has repeatedly won at the city contests of variety and circus art. He dreamed of an acting career, but the fate of the talented child turned out differently.
Before the army, he worked for a short time as a mechanic in a model workshop, then he was called up to serve in the artillery troops in the Transcaucasus. Two years later, a young sergeant returned from Kutaisi to Moscow, whose ideas about life had completely changed during this time.
The young man got a job at the Luzhniki stadium as an announcer. He became an editor, then headed the information department. At this time, he made his final choice and decided to connect his life with journalism.
Radio work
In 1991, Norkin came to the radio. He got his first experience at the radio stations "Maximum" and "Radio 101", where he was responsible for the information block. Radio Panorama invited him to broadcast music news. His first author's programs appeared on Radio Russia Nostalgie. Then there was cooperation with the radio stations "Echo of Moscow", "Moscow speaks" and "Kommersant FM". This was followed by work on television. But three years later, the journalist returned to radio broadcasts, this time on Komsomolskaya Pravda. The author's program "120 minutes" found its listeners and had high ratings.
TV journalism
Andrey's television debut took place at the NTV company in 1996. In the daily issues of "Today" he introduced the audience to the latest news. On weekdays, the continuation of the newscasts was the “Hero of the Day” talk show, where the host Norkin, together with famous politicians and cultural figures, discussed the events or topical issues. Cooperation with NTV was replaced by work on other channels: presenter on TV-6 and STS, editor-in-chief on Echo TV. In 2008, the journalist switched to Channel Five. He hosted the morning news, programs "The Real World" and "Dear Mom and Dad." In 2013, he was invited to ORT, a year later - to the Russia-24 channel. After collaborating with many channels, he returned to NTV in 2014, where he began his career as a television journalist. Discussions about the problems of politics and society in the shows "Meeting Place" and "Norkin's List" received a rather scandalous reputation. Since 2015, he has headed the news service on the Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV. The cycle of his programs dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October events aroused great audience interest.
In the late 90s, it became necessary to reinforce practical skills with a theoretical basis. Norkin studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, but never became a graduate. A decade and a half later, at the Ostankino Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting, he led a specialized workshop, where he himself taught students the basics of journalism.
Personal life
There were two marriages in the biography of the journalist. The first time Andrei started a family in 1985. He found his second great love on the radio. The acquaintance of colleagues, which began in 1992, ended with a wedding six months later. The long-awaited joint child was the daughter of Alexander. Today the girl works with her father in the same program. The family has three more children: Sasha, Yulia's son from his first marriage, Artem and Andrei, whom the couple adopted. After a big friendly family moved to a new home, my wife had to end her career and start raising children.
A gentle and calm family man cannot be recognized at work. In the studio, he is a man of solid character. One of the leading journalists in the country is distinguished by his adherence to principles and his own position on many issues. Saying it, Andrei Norkin backs up his words with specific sentences. He considers an important task of modern Russian society to revive the patriotic education of young people, which should be headed by the state itself.
