The article analyzes the literary and critical activity of V. Bryusov in Soviet Russia. Bryusov’s article “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of Russian Poetry” (1922) is one of the most important articles of this period. The critic considers in detail the past, present and future of Russian poetry, namely, symbolism, futurism and proletarian art. At the same time, the composition of Bryusov’s article repeats the composition of Ellis’ book on Russian symbolism (1910). Ellis argued that in the history of symbolism, K. Balmont is the past, Bryusov is the present, Andrey Bely is the future. On the contrary, Bryusov hints that all symbolism (Balmont, Andrey Bely) is the past. However, critic Bryusov hints that the true future of literature is not proletarian art, but the poetry of Bryusov himself. Bryusov’s polemic with proletarian art coincided with V. Lenin’s struggle against proletarian art (A. Bogdanov’s theory).

The article deals with the early publications of Lazar Karmen in the Odessa press. It analyzes the essays from the early 1900s, reflecting the social issues of the city (the collections such as ”Dikari” / “The Savages”. Life in the Odessa port” and “The Children – glukhari/capercaillies”: Life of the Children in the Odessa port”). The influence of Vlas Doroshevich and Populist literature on his work is noted. In addition to depicting the lifestyle and mentality of the outcasts, the narratives prominently featured scenes of the harborand information about the activities of the different port services played a significant role in his stories. The work of the Portovoye sanitarnoye popechitel’stvo (The Port Sanitary Guardianship) whose work is directly reflected in the essays published in the newspapers Odessky Listok / Odessa Leaf and Odesskiye Novosti / Odessa News, which are being studied for the first time in the article. Soviet literary criticism associated Кarmen with Gorky’s trend in literature, but A. Izgoev, A. Markevich and Vl. Zhabotinsky emphasized the difference between his descriptions and Gorky’s methods of romanticizing the “bosyak” (a tramp). The writer’s contribution to the formation of “Odessa literature” is illustrated through essays from the 1900s, highlighting its characteristic themes and imagery, including the sea and the port as iconic elements of the “Odessa text”. The memoirs of Vl. Zhabotinsky, K. Chukovsky, V. Lvov-Rogachevsky, I. Orsher and V. Kataev are the important sources for studying Karmen’s oeuvre.

The article analyzes the critical reception of V. Grossman’s story “Glukauf” as well as his short stories published in the mid-1930s. Primary attention is paid to the political side of these texts and its construing in Soviet periodicals. It is concluded that the controversy was not only due to aesthetic factors, but also due to those political: namely – the rivalry between the leaders of Soviet Writers’ Union and those in charge of the so-called “Agitprop”.

The article considers the formation of the myth about V. Vysotsky in Soviet and Russian criticism. During his lifetime, Vysotsky held the status of a recognized actor and a popular songwriter. In Soviet society, he was subjected to a newspaper campaign of vilification in 1968. However, that had no consequences for Vysotsky: he continued to perform, act in the theater, and appear in films. From a semi-recognized bard, Vysotsky, after his death, was transformed into a “classic” included in school curricula. At the same time, his image underwent a process of “banalization”, as various social groups began to appropriate it to serve their own interests.

The article considers the features of media consumption and media behavior of generation Z. It exactly is the generation that plays a key role in the development of the creative economy, the formation of the media space and the media communication system. Under the influence of zoomers, significant changes are taking place in the development of media platforms, the labor market, and media marketing.

Since its inception, investigative journalism has been one of the most important genres of analytical journalism, which aims to solve acute issues and combat illegal actions by various individuals, regardless of their position and social status. Exactly because of that reason such publications are in demand and popular with the audience. The purpose of the article is to trace the processes of transformation of investigative journalism methods by analyzing the content of high–profile investigations in the USA and Russia of different time periods. The article presents an analysis of the investigations of the two countries (a total of 37 publications were studied) for the reason that the United States is the birthplace of investigative journalism, and such an approach allowed determining similarities and differences in the ways of development of that genre in the two countries. During the research, three key stages were identified: the era of muckrakers, the period of careful fact-checking and working with documents, and the stage of active use of digital tools.

A relatively new phenomenon of “thrash writing” – the technology of writing texts with increased emotional stress, the use of colloquial and obscene language – until recently was typical only for public social networks and messengers. However, an empirical study of local media in Krasnoyarsk revealed the use of that technology by professional editorial offices. Such speech strategy is typical for the so-called “chaotic media” – professional and amateur media that seek to destabilize the communicative space for the sake of their own political or commercial interests.

This article is about journalistic techniques in the Decembrists’ propaganda practice: it describes the ways of recruitment into the secret organization, starting with the collection of information about the candidates for the conspirators and ending with the proposal to commit regicide. The article analyses the role of poetic journalism, primarily Pushkin’s poems, in attracting new members to the conspiracy. The article centers on the figure of the Decembrist M.P. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the most effective agitator, whom A.Kh. Benckendorff called “the demon of propaganda”.

The article opens a series dealing with the perception of the Decembrist phenomenon in poetic journalism. At first, the author formulates journalistic concepts for understanding the Decembrist phenomenon (monarchist, romantic, liberal, revolutionary) and describes in detail the first two, relevant to the specified time period.

The first concept arose almost immediately after the Decembrist revolt on Senate Square: it was, of course, forbidden to consider the Decembrist uprising from other positions. The second concept is directly opposite to the first and is inextricably linked to the name of A.I. Herzen, who spent more than two decades in exile due to his political position and founded the “Free Russian Press” abroad.

Then the author considers in detail poetic works about the Decembrist phenomenon and the Decembrists themselves, related to one or another of those two concepts. For example, the Decembrist A.I. Odoevsky even before Herzen formulated a whole set of symbolic phrases characteristic of Herzen’s interpretation, while A.S. Pushkin subscribed to monarchist views and wrote a message to the Decembrists in Siberia from those positions.

In conclusion, the author notes that he does not equate poetic works as such with journalism, but proceeds from the fact that any work in which historical events are interpreted cannot but contain a journalistic component.

The article discusses the journalistic aspects of the novel The Twelve Chairs, prepared for publication in 1928 by I.A. Ilf and Ev.P. Petrov, as well as the interference of censors and editors in the text of the novel. The author considers the various revisions, which were influenced by both political factors and the editors’ personal tastes. The author argues that the original text of the novel was in line with the propaganda of the period, which saw an intensification of the struggle between the party leadership, headed by I.V. Stalin, and the opposition, led by L.D. Trotsky. But in the autumn of 1927, the opposition was crushed, and many fragments of the manuscript that had previously been appropriate became unacceptable. In the course of reissues, censorship became stricter and editorial revisions became more abundant.

The article deals with particularities of the metaphor of disease in P. Struve’s journalism in the period of 1925–1935. The material for analysis consisted of articles published in the regular column of the editor-in-chief “The politician’s journal” in newspapers “Vozrozhdenie”, “Rossiya”, “Rossiya i slavyanstvo”. The article defines the specifics of metaphorical subjects and images, appropriate frames, the dominant syntactic type of metaphors, features and principles of using the morbual metaphor in Struve’s journalism as an important component of the 1920–1930s emigrant discourse.