Defense of graduation qualification works in the master’s program of Universal Journalism successfully finished at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications of the ISSH Faculty of Journalism. These are the first masters’ degree students to graduate the Journalism program of South Ural State University. Two years ago, practicing media specialists, including correspondent for Business FM Radio Chelyabinsk Ivan Sukhonosov, correspondent of Woman’s Day website and Telesem magazine, Anastasiya Lysyuk, specialist in SMM and social networking Olga Vasilyeva, and others enrolled in SUSU to study in this field.
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“During their education, our master’s students,” said Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, master’s program supervisor, Lyudmila Shesterkina, “gained advanced knowledge of the theory and practice of universal journalism and spent a lot of time on research work under guidance of professors and lecturers. All of the master’s students took part in science-to-practice conferences on modern media issues at SPbSU, KSU, SUSU, and other leading universities. Research articles written by journalism master’s students were published in prestigious research collections, including the Mediascope journal from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Humanitarian Herald from Transbaikal State University, journals reviewed by the Higher Attestation Commission, and other publications.”
Topics for graduation qualification works of the journalism master’s students were also notable for the relevance of problems being studied and the scientific novelty. Among them, the paper “Longforms as Multimedia Communication in Modern Journalism” by Anastasia Bevs, the research project “Creation and Development of Scientific Journalism as a Sphere of Professional Activity” Yulia Ionova, the final project “Special Features of Open Journalism and the Modern Information Space” by Arina Khramova, and more. Members of the State Examination Commission: Senior specialist of the Informational Support Division in the Office of Press Services and Information of the Chelyabinsk City Government, Valentina Yakobi; Executive director of the Association of Ural Distributed Power Generation, Head of the Department of Public Relations for the MKS companies group, Maria Nevolina; and the Chairman of the State Examination Commission, Deputy Head of the Administrations of the Governor and the Chelyabinsk region government, Head of the Informational Support Division in the Office of Press Services and Information for the Chelyabinsk region Government Dmitriy Fedechkin noted the high level of the papers, originality of the presented ideas, and practical significance of the graduation mater’s works.
“The region’s media space,” noted Dmitriy Nikolaevich in his farewell speech to graduates, “needs highly qualified workers who can find and create up-to-date information, who have mastered advanced informational technologies. In this regard, training of master’s students in the sphere of universal journalism is not just timely, but necessary. This once again proves that the Faculty of Journalism is ahead as always – at its best as always!”