The book includes articles published in three newspapers in which Yuri Shchekochikhin worked - Komsomolskaya Pravda in the 1970s, Literaturnaya Gazeta in the 1980s - mid-90s, and Novaya Gazeta in the late 20s and the beginning of the 21st century. Three publications that continued the best traditions of domestic journalism, three eras of the movement of social thought, three teams of very different people who managed to affirm the basic principles of honest, courageous and responsible journalism, independent investigation, accurate and accurate in different, and each time in their own difficult, conditions words. This is a book about our most recent history, about the profession, about personal choice, about professional duty. The collection includes well-known articles that became events in the life of journalism and society. “The Lion Leaped” was the first publication that spoke about the existence of organized crime in the USSR, “For the Motherland?! For the mafia! - about the hidden springs of the Chechen war, notes from the series “Slaves of GB” - about informers. And at the same time, very small notes about what is happening in Russia and the world.
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Shchekochikhin Yu. Three eras of Russian journalism. – M.: Moscow University Publishing House, 2010. – 376 p.
The book includes articles published in three newspapers in which Yuri Shchekochikhin worked - Komsomolskaya Pravda in the 1970s, Literaturnaya Gazeta in the 1980s - mid-90s, and Novaya Gazeta in the late 20s and the beginning of the 21st century. Three publications that continued the best traditions of domestic journalism, three eras of the movement of social thought, three teams of very different people who managed to affirm the basic principles of honest, courageous and responsible journalism, independent investigation, accurate and accurate in different, and each time in their own difficult, conditions words. This is a book about our most recent history, about the profession, about personal choice, about professional duty. The collection includes well-known articles that became events in the life of journalism and society. “The Lion Leaped” was the first publication that spoke about the existence of organized crime in the USSR, “For the Motherland?! For the mafia! - about the hidden springs of the Chechen war, notes from the series “Slaves of GB” - about informers. And at the same time, very small notes about what is happening in Russia and the world.
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Shchekochikhin Yu. Three eras of Russian journalism. – M.: Moscow University Publishing House, 2010. – 376 p.
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