Characteristics of Stylistic Mistakes in Rewritten Online News Items

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Olga R. Laschuk

PhD in Philology, Head at the Chair of Editing, Publishing and Informatics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: olgafl@yandex.ra

Section: Media Language

The author researches the field of production the news messages on the Internet by rewriting, the specifics of this field, conditioned both by the method of production of the informational item and by the consumers’ requirements. The author investigates the stylistic mistakes in the news stories produced by the agencies that specialize on rewriting.

Keywords: Web-text, multimedia message, rewriting, stylistic mistakes