Karoun A Demirjian was born on April 28,1981 and is a multimedia international journalist and freelance reporter at the Washington Post covering defense and foreign policy and was previously a correspondent based in the Post's bureau in Moscow.
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Karoun Demirjian has worked in Jordan, Russia, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Germany.
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Karoun Demirjian is a classical soprano, and an amateur pianist and guitarist.
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Karoun Demirjian is fluent in Armenian and English, and conversational in Russian, German, Arabic, and Spanish.
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Karoun Demirjian was a church soloist at St Stephen's Church Armenian Apostolic Church of Watertown, Massachusetts, where her mother, Karen Demirjian, was a long-time choir member and assistant organist.
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Karoun Demirjian sang in Harvard College Opera for several years and was its treasurer during her senior year, and she was a contributing writer for the Harvard Crimson in 2003.
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Karoun Demirjian was an intern at National Public Radio's All Things Considered, from 2003 to 2006.
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Karoun Demirjian worked for the Congressional Quarterly from 2008 to 2009, then at the United Nations, co-authoring reports on peacekeeping operations, disaster relief and emerging democracies, before she committed to her journalistic career.
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Karoun Demirjian then covered Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly and the Chicago Tribune, and worked at the Tribune as a Metro reporter covering crime, the courts, and community news.
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In 2014 and for a year, Karoun Demirjian joined The Washington Post's bureau as a correspondent in Moscow, Russia while working for NPR as a freelance reporter.
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Karoun Demirjian can be seen as a political analyst for CNN and CNN International.
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Karoun Demirjian's articles were nominated for the Washington Press Club Foundation's David Lynch memorial award for best regional coverage of Congress in 2012,2013, and 2014, and her video packages have appeared on The Washington Post's website.