Reports in Russian Media: the Impact of Editorial Policy and Aauthor's Position on the Development of the Genre

The research theme is dedicated to the evolution of the reportage as a genre in the Russian mass media and how this evolution depends on the editorial policy of media and the author's attitude to the subject of reportage. Reportage is one of fundamental genres of journalism. It aids people to discover information about certain events by eyewitness. Today in reality of crisis events in Russia and other countries mass media are not as objective as they should be, reportage as a genre lost its impartiality. Subjectivity of reportage determined by editorial policy and author’s position and usually it is expressed in reticence of certain facts, accents on eloquent details, expressing author’s attitude to the object, using one-side-sources. It is important to be able to make the objective picture of what is happening around, using the flow of information, distorted by editorial policy of a media and a specific vision of the situation by the author and do not believe what someone wants you to believe. The novelty of the research is determined by the fact that the author investigates the modification of the reportage as a genre in the context of last resonance political events. The subject of the research is the genre of reportage in modern Russian mass media. The object is evolution of the reportage as a genre in the context of the influence of editorial policy and the position of the author (on the example of the «Komsomolskaya pravda» and «Novaya Gazeta» newspapers). The purpose of the research is to reveal how editorial policy and author’s attitude to the theme manifested in modification of classical standards of the reportage. In the process of the research the author revealed that nowadays the reportage is not especially information genre – the new type of reportage is forming. For this type of reportage is characteristic clearly expressed author’s position.