from mid-2014 until the fall of 2017, fancy bear targeted numerous journalists in the united states, ukraine, russia, moldova, the baltics, and other countries that had provided articles discrediting putin and the kremlin. according to the ap and secureworks, this group of journalists is the third largest group targeted by fancy bear after diplomatic personnel and u.s. democrats. fancy bear's targeted list includes adrian chen, the armenian journalist maria titizian, eliot higgins at bellingcat, ellen barry and at least 50 other "new york times" reporters, at least 50 foreign correspondents based in moscow who worked for independent news outlets, josh rogin, a "washington post" columnist, shane harris, a "daily beast" writer who in 2015 covered intelligence issues, michael weiss, a cnn security analyst, jamie kirchick with the brookings institution, 30 media targets in ukraine, many at the kyiv post, reporters who covered the russian-backed war in eastern ukraine, as well as in russia where the majority of journalists targeted by the hackers worked for independent news (e.g. "novaya gazeta" or "vedomosti") such as at and mainstream russian journalists tina kandelaki, ksenia sobchak, and the russian television anchor , all of which worked for dozhd.