Essey vs Publicism: New Trends in Russian Press

Section: Periodical Press

In the article the author analyses a new tendency of development of genres in Russian journalism connected with regeneration of the essay and its intensive penetration into the mass media. The interaction of the mass media and the genre transformed both the journalism and the essay. In the first place dictatorship of the «publicism» become democratic coexistence of the «publicism» and the essays. In the second place the essay has changed and acquired new signs. The research peculiarity of the modem essay allow to imagine the model of the work. It has got both theoretical and practical importance.