ECONOMIC JOURNALISM IN RUSSIA (IN PUBLICIST AND SCIENTIFIC VIEWPOINT)

Abstract

Minginos V. P. (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)

Key words: economic journalism, media, economic science, economic journalist.

The author characterizes the notion of economic journalism. The paper presents a variety of opinions, attitudes, evaluations of scientists, journalists and politicians about the current state of economic journalism, analyzes its characteristics, features, aspects of content, positive and negative aspects of sociological studies with expert commentary are given.

Among the negative aspects of economic journalism researchers identify commercialization of economic content, lock in the detriment of informative analytics, lack of a clear position of the media in the area of economic policy, the reliance on press releases enterprises and departments, the use of statistics, numbers, without specifying the source. All this has a detrimental effect on the objectivity of such publications and the level of trust of the audience to economic media.

To date, according to some researchers, the media mostly confined to light the key developments in the economy, which cannot be surveyed, as well as sensational, scandalous stories, giving an integral view of the Russian economy and its individual regions, in terms of investment attractiveness.

Describing the economic media, researchers emphasize the level of training of journalists, trying to answer the questions: What should know a journalist, whether it is necessary an economic education, may be it is easier to teach an economist to write, than a journalist to comprehend financial realities, can a journalist write without economic education a qualitative financial analytics?