Johannesburg bureau
Robyn Dixon, Bureau Chief
Robyn Dixon covers sub-Saharan Africa for the Los Angeles Times. She has also reported from Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq. She spent 10 years in Moscow, traveling extensively to Ukraine, Georgia, Tajikistan and across Russia. She started as a cub reporter in her home city of Melbourne, Australia. After doing every conceivable job, from writing a daily TV column to covering national politics in Canberra, she went to Moscow for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, sister papers of the Fairfax group in Australia. In 1999, Dixon moved to The Times' Moscow bureau. She became the Johannesburg bureau chief in 2003.
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