Surillo Ivan Biography

Ivan Surillo: “It seems to people that if I work for Russia Today, then I work for a bloody mode” - a video on March 24, 0 of the youngest journalists of Russia was in the center of special attention after employment on the Russia Today channel. At 20, Ivan Surillo recorded more than fifty interviews with politicians, journalists, directors and public figures. In M, he created the project "Interview of Personal".

More than 55 thousand people have been signed to the interview with Ivan.

He was in the favorites of the metropolitan media coupling, until he began to work for the "bloody regime". True, Ivan himself does not think so. In an interview with TNV, he talked about how he withstood the injury from public people and explained that he did not want to ruin himself for wild millions. Have you specially selected them to annoy the metropolitan party even more? Valeria Kasamara - this was generally a trial option, which we recorded on the camera, we realized that after filming on this camera it is difficult to mount everything.

We shot an interview in December, just met and talked. Then I had a vacation, and we can say fully I started work only in February. I hope that on Monday the third interview will be released. I ask the producer to help find the contacts of these people. And the second option is when the producer comes to me and says, for example: “There is Father Dmitry Smirnov, he is now beginning to gain popularity, let's talk with him!

I am about the hero, I understand that he is interesting and what needs to be said. They write to me: “Van, listen, I will give you an interview, but not on Russia Today.” It always seemed very strange to me. Now I hope that despite this whole story with coronavirus, some heroes refuse, by the way, to sign up, they are afraid to get infected and do not want to meet personally, I will have heroes.

I want to go to a stable number of interviews per month. There is a conflict interview when a journalist begins to put pressure on the hero and ask him inconvenient questions, to sequent him to the wall so that the hero will come to emotion. And there is an interview, what I do is to reveal a person so that he answered as in a conflict interview, perhaps he would not answer.

What it seems to me, the problem of a conflict interview: when you are attacked and it does not matter to you with fists or with uncomfortable questions, a person begins to close and defend himself. He does not tell everything or very carefully thinks what he says. In the case of my interview - they often tell me about a person and about a person that they are like a psychotherapist.

I really wonders how a particular person makes such decisions, etc. A certain dome of trust is created between me and the interlocutor. And just in this atmosphere of trust, people tell more than they could tell in a conflict interview. I know the journalists who do this and very cool. But a similar genre is not for me. I am interested to find out why people are difficult.

I think that my success is very much tied to recognizing my work by some people important to me. For example, these can be the heroes of my interview, my family, guys from the Russian Today TV channel, who can appreciate me, other journalists, whose opinion I trust. I think that the success for me is associated with the approval of my work by other people - this is the first, and the second is associated with the number of views, discussion.

If we are talking about journalism, which I called, they are not so much an example for me, but as older comrades, for whom I am watching and learning something. This story is more about the apprentice institute. I see my mistakes with their eyes. I worked in The Village by a special correspondent. I did rather strange experiments, went around Moscow in Putin’s mask for 3 days and went to a mask for a week that hides his face from cameras and does not allow him to recognize.

I just walked the streets and recorded the reaction of people. But once 5 months ago, I realized that the interview is the most interesting thing I did! And how did you come to the fact that you need to become a blogger-journalist? It seems to me in journalism, such as in medicine, there should be the principle of “do not harm”. The journalist needs to try not to suffer because of you!

I began an “interview about the personal” when I was still studying at the “tower”, and I had to interview someone. I went to Petersburg, there was a Galina Timchenko course founder of the Meduza publication and I interviewed her. In the process of preparation, I realized that asking her the next question about “who is the“ Medusa ”investors is boring, and ask:“ What is missing in life ”is cool and interesting.

There were several such “human” questions to which she answered. After that, I returned to Moscow, launched the project “Interview of Personal”. Now this project is in a temporary coma due to the lack of time, but given the quarantine, I think it will be revived. Fortunately, life develops so that I have a certain choice. Recently, one company with an offer to conduct Instagram for quite large money by the standards of Moscow contacted me.

They offered thousands of rubles.I created a concept, honestly tried myself in this, but I realized that I did not want to conduct Instagram. I just gave this work to my friend. Fortunately, I now have a level of income that suits me, although the aforementioned thousands of rubles would be a good increase. I do not want to ruin myself, for some wild millions. It seems to me that it is better to work for less money, but more comfortable.

My youthful maximalism was seething and in the article I described why I do not like our education system. After it, half of the Russian Facebook scolded me. I had it “let me try! As a result, the newsletter became one of the largest in Runet, but now it is in a coma. Because the focus of my attention shifted from the news towards the interview. When I went there, I only had my project with an interview with an interview about personal and I did not work in any edition.

I am very grateful to the guys from Medusa that they chose and believed in me. I think that without them there would have been nothing. The “farm” tells how the media is made on the example of, in fact, “Medusa”. Moreover, training is not so much about how to write Longrid, but about crystallization of views on the world. The most cool is informal communication with the editorial staff.

The main reason is to somehow study at journalism for 4 years, and then go to work if you can go immediately to work. With the exception of doctors, etc. In journalism and media, everything changes every day and it turns out that we were given out of obsolete information. The main problem is that at journalisms they are not at all teaching. From a financial point of view, this does not pay off yet: during the time that I will spend on study, I can earn more money and get more benefit than the diploma will bring me.

And given what education should not be paid for the budget - higher education is precisely unprofitable in my case. Maybe in about three years I will understand that I need a higher education and go to study abroad. At the moment, I am attending the highest level of the school of Channel One. My dad is a businessman, and used to be a diplomat. I also had to be a diplomat, but at some point I realized that I would not pass the exam on history.

I thought what I could still, I read a lot, and, as you know, all writers are former readers. Then the thought of journalism came. A good blogger, it seems to me, has this too, but to a lesser extent. Was there many disfigures? When this whole story began, I just gave my phone to another person and did not go to Facebook. In general, I was on vacation in Vienna at that time.

Therefore, that day was in the contemplation of paintings in the Albertin gallery. I said: "You sometimes read to me what they write there, but do not come to me, because I will be upset." As a result, he survived everything very easily. It was hard for me when there was persecution on Twitter, the first persecution, due to an interview with Afisha. With the most part of the party, I still communicate.

And with those with whom I did not talk - most of them have not changed my attitude towards me. And there were also those who publicly said that they would not give my hands anymore, and then sent me personal messages: “Well, you understand? In fact, everything is wrong, we still love you, appreciate, respect! I did not feel some supermedist mockery or blow by my reputation.

The only time I was preventing me that my very good friend had to interview me, but her editor was embarrassed that I was with Russia Today. As a result, the person’s attitude to my transition was an interesting marker for me. Absolutely sincere. If I had the opportunity to go back and live all this again, then I would do so. The phrase was almost prophetic.