2024-05-28 02:40:52
The principle factor to do good journalism is to have an interest, to be curious!
In 2008, with these phrases, Borislav Zyumbylev acquired the “Chernorizets Hrabar” award within the “Commentator” class. At the moment, he was the primary deputy editor-in-chief of “24 chasa”.
Borko, as he was known as by his colleagues, with whom he made the perfect media in Bulgaria for years, was not solely a journalist, devoted to his work, at all times curious, pondering exterior the field, looking out, studying, open to the whole lot new on the earth. Borko was additionally many different issues that made him an excellent newspaperman –
extraordinarily erudite, an individual with contemporary concepts,
with a knack for locating essentially the most exact phrases and the clearest theses, with unerring aptitude and fast response. He had a distinct, however at all times deep view of the processes in public life and the connections between them. He was not a slave to clichés and pettiness. He had a beneficiant soul, a free spirit, a powerful character and a knack for sensing the pursuits and moods of his readers.
Due to this fact, he wrote magnificently, colorfully and at all times with glorious arguments. That is acknowledged even by individuals who didn’t at all times agree along with his theses. He ran the newspaper with a private strategy to every of the workforce.
The truth is, we now have lengthy been greater than only a high quality content material workforce. Greater than as soon as, Zyumbylev has mentioned that he feels “24 hours” as his huge household.
On Monday, two hours earlier than she entered together with her normal swing and salute of a glider, Borko, aged 55, handed away. However not from the household. Not since “”24 hours”. He left unexpectedly, shortly after the primary espresso. And
within the final minutes of this world he was along with his spouse
Polly Hussain – the love of his life. On Friday, he parted along with his colleagues enthusiastically – he was getting ready to journey on enterprise to his hometown of Silistra on Tuesday.
From a reporter at “168 Chasa” he grew to become straight the deputy editor-in-chief of “Sega” journal. He got here to “24 Chasa” as an editor within the “Evaluation” division in 1999, and in 2012 he was already the editor-in-chief.
Earlier than that, he was first deputy editor-in-chief of the every day newspaper and editor-in-chief of the weekly “168 Chasa”.
Destiny confronted him with main life trials – in 2008, a bullet swept his automobile on the Trakia freeway. Borislav was severely injured and survived. Years later he had a stroke. These trials solely made him stronger, wiser, extra motivated, extra curious. Even after the crash with the tractor trailer, he drew from his private expertise frequent issues and launched a marketing campaign associated to security on Bulgarian roads.
The truth is, Borislav has a powerful contribution to actually all public initiatives of “24 hours” – from “Medical doctors we belief” to the ranking of universities in Bulgaria.
“A well-written article ultimately results in motion”,
Zyumbylev was satisfied. And he knew the best way to write readable and persuasive articles. Listed below are the titles of only a small fraction of them from latest years:
With out the worry of God, there isn’t any means Bulgaria can grow to be a authorized state
Necessary one-week laborious labor for evil propaganda
Why do not TV stations report from the theatre
Lengthy studying – an excuse for our huge nationwide laziness.
Who would be the wealthy of the XXI century?
Only a few days in the past, Borislav wrote and edited an essay printed in Saturday’s difficulty – “What’s an All Ages get together – the shameful secret of membership life in our nation”, which tells about one other pattern – each dangerous and nonetheless not lined by the media.
Thanks, my buddy, for the peaks we climbed every single day collectively!
The workforce of “24 hours” grieves and shares the grief of his family members.
We acquired dozens of condolence calls within the editorial workplace, many others expressed their grief on Fb. Amongst them have been all of the media, the political scientist Ivan Krastev, the manager director of the Open Society Institute Georgi Stoichev, Veselin Valkanova, dean of the School of Journalism, the TV presenter Niki Kanchev, the journalist and producer Georgi Toshev, the singer Bogdan Tomov, the poet Margarita Petkova, Yordanka Fandakova, former ministers Anton Stankov and Vladi Goranov. “We proceed the change – Democratic Bulgaria” despatched a letter of condolence to Borko Zyumbylev’s spouse Paola Husein and the “24 Chasa” workforce.
Radi Nedelchev, a buddy from Silistra: He was extra the phrase, not me. How he will get used to such a loss, I do not know
I am unable to clarify what I really feel. We now have been associates since childhood. My head is a whole mess, I am very upset – it is simply not true. I am unable to communicate – he was a talker, a talker, he liked and spoke superbly. I do not know the way he will get used to such a loss.
