Liz Wahl

Liz Wahl (born May 27, 1985) is an American journalist. and a Hungarian American father. She was raised in Connecticut. She graduated from Fairfield University. Her paternal grandparents were refugees from Hungary, who fled the on-coming Soviet invasion during the Hungarian Uprising. She and colleague Abby Martin began criticizing RT’s coverage of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation on-air on March 3, 2014. Wahl stated "I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin."

The video of Wahl's resignation immediately went viral on the internet, with millions of hits on YouTube. She appeared on three major American cable news outlets – CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC – was also invited to appear on The View, and the shows of Anderson Cooper, and Stephen Colbert

Post-RT career Wahl has reported for Newsy. Wahl spoke at a peace conference in the Hague and addressed the Parliament of Canada on foreign interference in the digital era.