The Forum of the Union of Journalists called “All Russia – 2019”, participating in which were more than one and a half thousand media specialists from all Russian regions and 22 countries of the world, concluded in Sochi. At the Forum, SUSU was represented by the Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Liudmila Shesterkina, and the Head of the Press Office at the Marketing and Strategic Communications Department, Tatiana Stroganova.
There were more than 140 professional master classes, training sessions, discussions, exhibitions and art meetings with notorious politicians, community officers and professionals in the sphere of media held at the Forum. Forum participants paid the main attention to the issues of developing the national and international media space, mass media’s interaction with state and public structures, and to the issues of digital transformation of the media and the necessity to maintain the social significance of professional journalists under these conditions. This topic was also discussed at a roundtable meeting of Deans of Russia’s leading Faculties of Journalism entitled “Media consumption by ‘digital’ youth”, coinciding with a meeting of the Training and Methodology Board for Journalism, on which the Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Liudmila Shesterkina shared SUSU’s experience of taking part in the World Journalism Education Congress.
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“The Festival in Sochi is the second large-scale forum on journalism in which our university, an institutional member of the European Journalism Training Association, is taking part this year,” said Liudmila Shesterkina. “Such venues for professional discussion bring the system of journalism training at SUSU to the world level indeed. This time, we will take home not only the up-to-date knowledge acquired from the best practitioners of the media sphere as well as from Russian and foreign scientists, but also the experience of establishing an education centre at the Russian Union of Journalists, in which education programmes are intended for both aspiring and experienced journalists. We intend to cooperate with instructors of the Centre in the cluster of SUSU Faculty of Journalism’s elite training on the issues of universal journalism under conditions of transmedia.”
At the Journalism Forum, many spoke that mass media act as an efficient mechanism of public control and activate the dialogue between citizens and the society. All of this contributes to the increase of quality and influence of Russian mass media which play a huge role in our country’s promotion to large-scale goals of development. Also in Sochi, results of multiple contests in journalism have been drawn. Delegation of the Chelyabinsk region achieved especially good results – its representatives have been awarded nine honorary credentials and prizes in various categories for creative approach and professionalism. Among the winners is the Head of the Press Office at the SUSU Marketing and Strategic Communications Department, Deputy Chair of the Union of Journalists of the Chelyabinsk region, Tatiana Stroganova, who has been awarded a diploma of the Russian Union of Journalists for winning a professional contest as the director of an art project – the second volume of a book entitled “Names and Times”.