Trailblazing Armenian Journalist Passes Away
The very active expatriate journalism community in Glendale is mourning the loss this week of Armen Dilanyan, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday at age 56.
Before coming to the U.S. in 2006 and establishing a daily political talk show on SoCal’s Horizon Armenian Television, Dilanyan built up a solid reputation working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Per an obituary on azatutyun.am, he was one of the first correspondents for the service in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan and helped launch a local bureau after the territory gained independence in 1992:
Armen Koloyan, a longtime member of RFE/RL’s Prague team, had worked with Dilanyan since the early 1990s.
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