Interactivity as a Basiс Value of a Journalist Gained in the Process of Higher Professional Education

Section: Education in Journalism

The article is devoted to the issue of necessity of interaction between the active part of the audience and a modern journalist. The author states that the latter do not posess the competences to fulfill the interaction, which cases discrepancy between theory and the expectations of practicing journalists. The article touches upon the issue of academic mobility, and in connection with that the author provides the results of the experiment on using the instruments of distant learning (in the form of analysis of the students'feedback). The conclusion that the author makes is that real work of a journalist with the active audience comprises perception of the audience's voice in order to be heard.