Echo of Moscow
Since 1990 he has been working for Echo of Moscow radio. He started out as a newspaper observer and reporter and later headed the news division. He has been editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow since 1998. During his tenure he interviewed presidents Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac, Francois Hollande, Kersti Kaljulaid and Ilham Aliyev; German chancellor Angela Merkel; US Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice; Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and many other prominent political leaders. From 2002 until 2010 Venediktov also served as president of Echo TV Russia.