The article analyzes the content of two popular professional media for journalists in Russia – the Journalist magazine and Sdelano.Media official websites. The focus of the study is to understand the conceptual orientation, readership, editorial approaches to the topic of stress.

The article analyzes the range of thematic materials on the websites, high-lights the subject of the most popular thematic blocks among regional journalists in Penza region through a survey conducted by the author, identifies what place takes the mental health in content structure of professional media. The article pays great attention to the texts that discuss the peculiarities of journalistic stress and the practical value of such content for media employees and press services. This approach allows for a characterization of the local practice of journalism and the strategies that make it possible to talk about journalistic stress in an uncertain geopolitical situation.

The article analyzes the genre features and specific means of expressiveness of television fundraising reporting on Russian television. While classic television reports and their characteristics have been described in detail by both practicing journalists and academic researchers in the works of G. V. Kuznetsov, V. L. Tsvik, A. Ya. Yurovsky, there is a lack of scientific literature on the unique features of modern Russian TV fundraising reports. Meanwhile, they have unique characteristic and features that distinguish such television reports into a special subgenre. These include structural, visual and linguistic elements that work together to create an image that evokes emotions of sympathy in the viewer. The video contains an abundance of close-ups and details, and the interview features a clearly defined circle of heroes: the child’s parents and an expert, a doctor. Fundraising reports necessarily use infographics, captions and QR codes with details for making a donation, but such an important structural element of a television report as stand-up is usually absent. The voice-over text of such reports employs artistic means inherent in the journalistic style – metaphors, epithets, hyperboles, personifications, personifications, and so on. Based on the study of 60 fundraising reports published at different times on three Russian federal and regional television channels, the author examines the history, the current state, and the immediate prospects of television fundraising in Russia.

The study aims to analyze the factors determining the process of transformation of the media sphere of the digital era. Journalists face increasing competition from non-professionals – bloggers, citizen journalists, just eyewitnesses of bright events who post messages on social networks and messengers. Therefore, it is crucial to find / develop unique methods and techniques to organize creative activity. The study is based on the systemic and cognitive approaches. From March 2022 to March 2023, the Russian federal and regional (macro-region of the Greater Urals) media spheres were monitored. The empirical base includes the results of the analysis of 68 publications, as well as the materials of a previously conducted survey of regional journalists. The authors of this article identifies and describes the most productive ways to use the capabilities of end-to-end technologies in everyday journalistic activities. Based on the results of the system analysis, they characterize the indicators of effective texts, which determine, among other things, the digital competencies of the professional success of modern journalists.

Telegram channels (TG channels) have become a valuable part of people's daily lives. The number of non-unique users of Russian TG channels has doubled in 2022, and the number of news channels has increased by 55%. In the first half of 2023, 41% of Russians logged into Telegram daily. TG channels penetrated all spheres of public activity, becoming tools for information exchange and for forming public opinion, a source of information about what is happening in the world, the country, and the hometown. The article analyzes TG news channels of the largest cities of Siberia. It describes the current stage of development of regional news channels in the context of changes in the popularity of this media platform in 2022–2024 and conducts their «mapping». The article examines the change in the number of subscribers and the specifics of the content of the most viewed and reposted TG channels, as well as TG channels of existing media.

The article analyzes the current editorial business processes of a news agency, with a focus on the News Hub and the editorial office of the website tass.ru of the TASS agency. From an industrial point of view, TASS is one of the oldest and most highly cited media outlets in the country, and is part of the 'Big Three' along with RIA Novosti and Interfax. The study uses semi-structured expert interviews with agency media managers, analysis of open data, and observation method. The hypothesis is that the editorial offices of the news agency have diversified their processes as much as possible due to the importance of b2c platforms in the editorial practice of the media, which is also reflected in the re-structuring of divisions (increase in departments, groups, the emergence of new specialists). The novelty of the study lies in the description and analysis of the work of key structural divisions of a news agency, which has not previously been studied in academic discourse and has not been studied in detail in the news media industry. The editorial activities of TASS are one of the subjects of a large comprehensive study of the transformation of business processes of federal news agencies in Russia. In this article, the author conducts an audit of current business processes and identifies expert assessments regarding the development of such processes.

Political communication on Telegram, one of the most popular platforms in Russia, has become a topic of interdisciplinary research. Telegram channels serve as spaces for political discussion and demonstrations, where various points of view on the same events are broadcasted. In this article, the authors uncover general trends and features of argumentation on the internet. They examine how analytical posts in political Telegram channels express different opinions on ongoing political events. Using content analysis, the authors conducted an empirical study of popular and ranking political Telegram channels. The authors reveal the characteristics of argumentation in analytical texts devoted to two of the most debated political events in recent years: the death of Mikhail Gorbachev (a federal event) and the return of the monument to the founder of the PMSC Felix Dzerzhinsky from the Muzeon park of arts to Lubyanka Square in Moscow (a local event). Based on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the content, the format of the message transmission, tone of publication, level of event consideration, tactics of argumentation, and other aspects, modern models of argumentation in political network communication are described. The authors identify four models based on the statement's purpose: realistic, reflective, subjective, and critical.

The author analyzes various types of structural and functional connections between two key elements of the communication process – mass media and its audience. The configurations of such connections are a reflection of the realities of modern media landscape and the result of objective and subjective factors: mass communication drift towards the digital Internet Galaxy, dramatic extension of media interactivity area, equalizing influence of the net structure and rhizomorphic constitution of cyberspace on the communicators’ subjectivity and the statuses of media products; spread of event-and-news paradigm, active search of new forms of interaction with the audience, redefining the mission of journalism and its place in media space. Based on the research of modern journalism practices, their theoretical grounds and their supporters’ notes, the article identifies and describes five basic configurations of interaction between media and the audience: media dominating the audience, media determining the audience, media and audience being equal and influencing each other, media and audience collaborating in creating media products, media serving the everyday needs of their audience. The analysis of the positions that journalists take towards the audience or get into under the circumstances reveals the modes of media process from the communicator’s subjectivity point of view, ways of making content, selection of topics, values and meanings the product contains; and their ideal substance updates the issues of the meaning and the mission of journalism.

The article aims to study the sports segment of Telegram, determine the current topics and genres of publications about sports, and identify the most popular sports on this social network. To accomplish this, the author selects the Top-10 Telegram author and group blogs based on the number of subscribers in the «public sports channels» category according to TGStat service. The genre, format, thematic, and visual features of publications have been studied for six months, from April 2022 to September 2022. As a result, the general and particular patterns of their development are revealed. The author conducted the content analysis of 2275 publications from twenty Telegram channels. The article finds out that a quarter (25%) of the channels are universal sports blogs, while football and MMA are the most popular sports in specialized blogs. The most popular forms of posts are photos and text but 12% of publications have no visual component. Despite the disqualification of Russian athletes, the competition topic is the most popular one (37%), and there is no political agenda. In terms of genre, news prevails (27%).

The article discusses the communicative potential of the period (and its absence) in personal messages. The research is based on the results of a survey of NSU students as well as scientific works on the theory and practice of punctuation. It has been observed that many internet users believe that using a period at the end of a text can convey aggression, and therefore avoid using it. To study the persistence of this stereotype a questionnaire survey was conducted amongstudents. The reasons for the absence of a punctuation mark in personal communication can be attributed to several factors: 1) saving time; 2) forgetfulness; 3) disregard of punctuation norms; 4) meaninglessness of the action; 5) force of habit and laziness. One of the most common reasons is communicative in nature, which involves accommodating the interlocutor who might perceive punctuation as negative. According to the respondents, the omission of the end- point is seen as a marker of informality in communication, and the period is primarily perceived as a dividing sign rather than a signal of sentence completion: the empty end-of-line space swallows up the sign. The action of «completing a thought» that the period sign expresses is replaced by another action, where the addressee gives the command to send a message instead of typing a punctuation mark. The punctuation system thus includes linguistic and discursive units. In addition, in the context of Internet communication, the period acts as a signal of the end of communication.

The research focuses on transformations in speech etiquette in political Telegram channels. Effective communication is essential in media communication between the addresser and the recipient. The article aims to highlight certain features of political Telegram blogging speech by examining speech etiquette. Speech etiquette in the online environment is considered to be a line of meta-markers of online interaction (or etiquette line by L. Duskaeva), which helps optimize communicants' interactions in various communication situations. The article examines the different nodes of the speech etiquette line such as the beginning of contact, maintaining communication, and its completion. The research then delves into analyzing units with semantics that focus on addressing and responsiveness. It reveals various scenarios that are typical in establishing contact, maintaining communication, and regulating communication in Telegram. These include creative appeals, textual techniques for creating simultaneity and informality, commenting on other positions, supporting other channels, and responding to subscribers’ activities.

Political Telegram channels’ speech etiquette is transformed in accordance with the communication goals and technological features in this milieu. The configuration of the etiquette line in online interaction with the audience strives to create an atmosphere of direct interpersonal communication, «friendly» talking, discussing current political news, and clarifying the peculiarities of public life. The study concludes that communicative scenarios in political Telegram blogging are focused on maintaining an intimate communication environment and avoiding formalization.

The article analyzes chronotopic dominants in the discourse of the literary almanac called «Siberian Athens». The study is based on 38 issues of almanac published between the years 1994 to 2007, comprising a total 1073 publications. The research examines the dynamics and content, and identifies the specifics of the topical and temporal components of the chronotopein literary, journalistic and local historical texts. The article concludes by arguing that the almanac's discourse is dominated by the Tomsk and Siberian chronotope, and explains how and why it has become so. The article also demonstrates the retrospective nature of the chronotopes of literary and local historical texts by identifying the historical events that serve as the most frequent temporal background of the works published in the almanac.

The article presents the results of a study of the television media system of the Tomsk region from 1990 to 2020. This period is considered critical due to the formation of a unique media situation known as the «Tomsk media anomaly». During this time, many subjects of the media system were active, but not all of them were studied, resulting in a fragmented description of the television media system. The aim of this study is to identify trends in the transformation of the television broadcasting system and determine their causes. To achieve this, an interdisciplinary methodology was used, which combined historical and sociological approaches, such as historical source studies, the method of in-depth interviews. Empirical material sources included the register of licenses for television and radio broadcasting of the Tomsk Oblast Department of Roskomnadzor, electronic extracts from the registry of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, and 12 interviews with representatives of Tomsk television companies. The study reveals that during 1990–2020 about 30 legally independent and separate subjects of television broadcasting operated in the Tomsk region. Two typological groups were identified: a television company and a production studio. It also indicates the trends of transformation from growth in 1990 due to socio-political reasons to reduction in 2010 due to new economic conditions are revealed.

The review is devoted to the collective monograph “Institutes of Literature in the Russian Empire” (2023). The book, written by researchers from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, IRLI RAS and Lomonosov Moscow State University, presents various methods and approaches for analysing the literary field of the 18th and 19th centuries as an institution. By synthesising the concepts of Russian formalists, semioticians and the classics of Russian literary sociology with the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Jurgen Habermas, the authors demonstrate the differentiation of the social field of literature.

In spite of the unity of method and approach, as described in the preface by the authors and scientific editors Kirill Zubkov and Alexey Vdovin, the language of the researchers' descriptions and the chosen perspective remain individual, which gives a clear idea of the diversity of the objects and subjects of research. At the same time, the plurality of points of view makes the book readable as a “project for the future”, allowing us to speak of the creation of a fundamental work on the classification of the main institutions of literature in nineteenth-century Russia. The review also points out methodological problems that arise in translating Bourdieu’s concept into the language of analysing social and literary institutions.