According to materials of newspapers and magazines public reaction to the amnesty for decembrists, declared by coronation manifesto of Alexander II, of 26 August 1856, is restored in this article. It is shown that, contrary to popular researcher’s opinion that the amnesty provoked strong public reaction, which made the decembrists heroes of public opinion, in fact, nothing like that happened. In perception of the society a declaration of the amnesty for decembrists was inseparable from the other amnesty provisions, which were integral to the news of coronation ceremonies in public consciousness. The first public edition of M.A. Korf’s “The accession of Emperor Nicholas I to the throne” caused a genuine public interest in 1857. This article revises the traditional view of reasons which prompted Alexander II to insist on public edition of the work.

The researchers analyze the autobiographical investigative testimony of 1930 and 1938 of a leading journalist of the newspaper “Izvestia” Alexei Garry. The date of his birth, the information about his father and family, about education are specified, and his role in the Civil war in Russia is revealed. Researchers also analysed how one of the prominent Soviet journalists managed to remain nonparty.

The article analyses with the propagandistic campaign initiated according to decisions of the XVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In particular, without ceasing the Great Terror the party hypocritically called to stop repressions and to rehabilitate innocent people. This campaign was described in Leonid Leonov’s play “The Snowstorm” and in the story “The Rehabilitation” by the avantgarde writer daniil Kharms.

The aim of the essay is to analyze the specific features of critical reception of V. Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate” in Russian emigrant periodicals. The scholar investigates the problem of there being very few intermittent reviews of the novel in the 1980s and assumes that it must have been caused by unspoken confrontation between Grossman and Solzhenitsin, whose authority was then indisputable among many emigrant groups. Another obstacle was ambiguous Grossman’s reputation as a writer. It was formed in the 1970s, shortly after the appearance of his story “Everything flows”, which ideology could not be accepted by most Russian emigrants.

The article based on periodical materials analyses how articles about the art helped to accomplish propaganda tasks during the cold war with the USA as exemplified by reviews of Hollywood movie “Star wars”. The author reveals what methods and language tools soviet critics used in media stories to form the image of the enemy with the film audience.

The article presents to the history of business press in Great Britain and the USA up to XXth century. It describes those factors which stimulated its evolution and the stages it passed on the way to the modern stage. By the example of several leading business magazines different approaches to the economics news are being compared.

The function of priests’ activity description in Ancient Russian publicism is analyzed in this article. The priest had to serve as the Confessor - that was a part of his job. Through spiritual fathers, their conversation with the congregation and the texts written in the genre of journalism, the Church influenced members of society - in particular, shaped their behavior.

The article is devoted to an analysis of one of the techniques of emotional speech influence applied by modern publicists, - the metaphorization of the word noose in the texts of newspapers “Novaya Gazeta” and “Zavtra” (2015). The author shows that the journalists keep the associative field generated by the direct meaning of the word, so metaphorical image of noose is able to bring the reader into a state of fear, disgust, anger and create a favorable emotional background for the propaganda.

The article explores the practice of speech mask use as a language game species in media polemic in twentieth years of XXth century. It is proposed to consider the speech mask as a kind of manifestation of speech aggression in the journalistic text.

Basing on the research of methaporsʼ theme groups author reveals the characteristic of the modern manʼs image set by glossy magazine. Portrait essays in globally recognized fashion and lifestyle “Vogue” magazine were used as a material for the study.

This article examines the purpose of question structures included in the titles of publications on the material of electronic media. The author reveals a high pragmatic potential of interrogative sentences, which perform the functions of attracting attention, notification, emotional impact, text-formation and some others.

The article is devoted to the practice of implementation of the competence approach in professional journalistic education in the use of the master class. The range of general and professional competencies that are formed effectively enabling the master class in the educational program “Journalism” is defined. The relationship of the master class use with the processes of formation of professional self-determination and identity of future journalists is observed.

The issue of the quality of higher education has received increasing attention in the global educational space. There are different approaches, and different methods of evaluating the quality of higher education. Especially now in the process of forming the requirements for assessing the quality of higher education, the role of employers as one of the interested parties is increasing.

This article represents the result of the research of sociopsychological aspects of managing TV creative and production groups which was done in indissoluble connection with the study of personal and professional qualities and competencies of subjects of the management - managers. The research worked out generalized version of media manager professiogram, demands to their qualifications, conditions of work of media managers and socio-psychological factors of his work. Main specifics of professiogram and psychogram of TV media manager were presented.

This article discusses basic issues that arise in the study of ideologems in a modern digital communications network. In particular, the author’s experience of research the ideologem “oligarch” with the use of the Internet in the framework of research directions of “digital humanities” is presented. This experience is intended to assist other researchers in identifying research strategies, methodologies, methods and techniques in the study of ideologems with the help of modern information and communication technologies (ICT).