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Content:

• Media Economics

  «Revealing Interests of Major Owners in Newscasts of Controlled TV Channels (the Cases of NTV and REN)»

  The article presents the results of the study of owners’ influence on formation of the newscasts of N TV and REN. Monitoring of the midday newscasts December 2013 to March 2014 revealed major trends in covering facts and events related to activities and business interests of legal entities and persons that can be described as the owners of the channels as well as of affiliated organizations. We believe that relying on analyzed data we can prove that news agenda is fanned by two major Russian networks’ newscasts under evident influence of their owners.
  Keywords: REN, NTV, Natzjonal’naya Media Gruppa, Gazprom-Media Holding, gatekeeping, agenda setting
  Mikhail I. Makeenko, Anna A. Kugusheva 3
• Theory of Journalism and Media

  «Criteria of Perceived Quality of Journalis- tic Texts (on Example of Business Media)»

  The article is based on the analysis of quality criterions of journalistic texts. The research was designed as poll of business media employees and readers. The focus was on the two basic genres — news and features. The article also deals with the problems of perceiving the quality criterions of journalistic texts by the different participants of communication process. The authors conclude that content producers and content consumers estimate the texts quality in substantially different ways.
  Keywords: quality criterions of texts, perceived quality, quality estimation, journalistic texts, quality mass media, news, features, content producers, content consumers
  Andrei V. Vyrkovsky, Siranush V. Sharoyan 22
• Television and Radio

  «Business TV Journalism in Russia: Approach to Classification»

  This article represents an attempt to interpret the concept of business television journalism, as well as its classification given the Russian media system specifics. The author describes a brief history of the modem business TV journalism, makes a review of classifications offered by the researchers of business journalism, and develops her own content classification based on thematic aspects. The main part of the article represents an analysis of the modem business television in Russia.
  Keywords: business journalism, television, themes, classification
  Ekaterina A. Polishchuk 47
• History of Journalism

  «First World War’s Problems in Baku Russian Press»

  Before the First World War in Baku some names of newspapers in Azerbaijan, Russian and Armenian languages were issued. Those newspapers’ attitudes toward the World War were different since they were based on the national predilections of the publishers. Even the newspapers issuing in Russian were far from Russian interests, they supported point of view of their publishers. The author investigates the attitude of newspapers toward the World War which began in Europe.
  Keywords: First World War, newspapers «Kaspi», «Baku», refugees
  Hajiyeva L.O. 64

• «Beginning the Long Way: Orel Stage of Publicist’s Vasily Selyunin Biography»

  Having based on lhe archive materials the article is devoted to the study of the famous Soviet publicist Vasiliy Г. Selyunin ’s (1927—1994) initial period of career. He was one of the first graduates of the Department of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1954—1955 he worked for the regional newspaper “ Orlovskaya Pravda” where he published number of his articles on agriculture, but also many essays and reviews on other subjects. In this article numerous previously unknown facts of the initial period of his career were added for the scientific use.
  Keywords: история отечественной журналистики XX в., публицист, редакция, критика, аспирантура
  Aleksey I. Kondratenko 85
• Modern Journalism: Subjects and Issues

  «Anti-Corruption Journalistic Investigations on the Regional Sites (Part 2)»

  The main task of this article is an analysis of journalistic investigations of corruption in contemporary Russia. Author describes the practical experience of investigative journalism on the internet-sites. The goal of the research is also the detection of challenges to such investigations and search of methods to improve their effectiveness.
  Keywords: investigative journalism, corruption in Russia, regional internet-journalism
  Alexander A. Tertychniy 96
• New Media

  «Methods of Social Media Use in Political Communications (on the Presidential Elections in the US Example)»

  The article explores the ways social media can be used in political communica­tions. In the USA in the span of the past 20 years, there have been a number of changes in the election process, communication paradigm and voter behavior that affect political communications. Social media channels are an effective way of mobilizing the masses and raising their political engagement.
  Keywords: new media, political strategy, presidential election, Internet, Barak Obama, social media
  Anna V. Severse 108
• Criticism and Bibliography

  «Media Law Practice for Journalists (on The Defamation in Media / [Edited by] Arapova G.U., Ledovskikh M.A.) »

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  Keywords: review, media law, defamation
  Ivan A. Pankeev 117