Compositional Features of Rewritten News Items (on the Basis of Materials of Lenta.ru and NEWSru.com in 2000—2012)

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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

Results of research of composition of rewriter’s news messages of two Internet agencies are presented in article: Lenta.ru and NEWSru.com. The special attention is paid to a phenomenon of «lasting», repeatedly edited messages. Specifics of modem news Internet materials is revealed: impossibility to provide observance of require­ments to their composition with traditional methods. Taking into account this specifics the new technique of formation of composition of rewritwer’s Internet messages is offered.

Keywords: news agency, news message, composition, rewriting, editing