Name Paula Slier | Employer RT | |
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Alma mater University of Witwatersrand Occupation Journalist, over 20 years Education University of the Witwatersrand Nominations TEFI Award for Best Reporter | ||
Rt reporter paula slier forced to flee ukraine after death threats
Paula Slier is a South African television, radio and print journalist, and war correspondent, who heads up her own company in the Middle East called Newshound. In 2012 she launched Newshound Africa, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also the Middle East Bureau Chief and correspondent for RT.
Contents
- Rt reporter paula slier forced to flee ukraine after death threats
- Paula slier at the daniel pearl international journalism institute
- Early life and family
- Career
- 119 Lives Unlived
- References
Paula slier at the daniel pearl international journalism institute
Early life and family
Slier was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she attended Waverley Girls' High. Afterwards, she enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating in 1995 with a degree in international relations and philosophy.
Slier is Jewish. Her Dutch grandparents and many other family members were killed in the Holocaust.
Career
She later moved to the Middle East as a freelancer, contributing reports to Eyewitness News, and Marie Claire South Africa.
In 2005, she was appointed Middle East Bureau Chief for RT.
She heads up her own company in the Middle East called Newshound. In 2012 she launched Newshound Africa, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
119 Lives Unlived
In 2015, Slier presented the RT documentary 119 Lives Unlived, about her relatives killed during the Holocaust. She traveled to Amsterdam, where letters from Philip "Flip" Slier, her first cousin once removed, were discovered in the 1990s during a renovation at the former home of her grandparents. The letters were written after Flip was sent to a work camp in the Netherlands after he turned 18. During the documentary, she interviews Constant Kusters, president of the Dutch Far Right Dutch Peoples-Union, and the grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess.