Alexey Pivovarov (Russian: Алексей Пивоваров) (born 12 June 1974, Moscow) is Russian television journalist, producer and media manager. He is also a documentary maker and an author of historical movies for television. He was the television host and managing editor for NTV News Division since 2005 until he left for STS Media. From 2013 and through February 2016, he was a producer at STS Media.
Pivovarov is currently editor-in-chief and general producer of RTVi (International Russian-Speaking Television, based in NYC), appointed in September, 2016. Pivovarov's tasks include the creation of a new news team and of an image that is attractive to advertisers. "We want to see not just the TV channel RTVi, but a modern media, available in on all environments our audience, both on air and through mobile applications and on social media," said Pivovarov
Pivovarov began his career in 1988 working in radio. In 2005 he became a news presenter for Evening News "Segodnya" ("Today"), usually appearing with Lilia Gildeeva, and for his own TV projects. At the beginning of his TV career, Pivovarov was a protégé of Leonid Parfyonov. In 2004-2005 when Parfyonov was fired from NTV, Pivovarov supported him with a sarcastic comment on the air, and was suspended from the Evening news as punishment. The news agency Reuters called Pivovarov "an unlikely opposition hero" after the website of the newspaper Kommersant reported that he allegedly refused to read the news on December 8, 2011 if he could not report on the ongoing protests in Moscow, which were being ignored by the state-controlled media. The next day, reports on the protests were included in the evening NTV news report, and other channels followed their example. NTV denied that Pivovarov had made any ultimatum, and Pivovarov himself never confirmed the report.