New game format or new genre of political journalism?

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Viktor A. Savitsky

PhD Student, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: vsmedia@yandex.ru

Section: New Media

The paper discusses the game approach to working with reporter's information. Using a video game as an example, the author analyses a new format of game modeling of reality and investigates the publicistic potential of the video game technology as a new method of creative journalism.

Keywords: genres, game, political journalism, interactivity, virtuality