Description
Book SynopsisRussian Regional Journalism: Struggle and Survival in the Heartland takes an intimate look at the enormous challenges and small victories experienced by local Russian journalists across the post-perestroika and Putin eras. The book examines 13 years of journalists' struggles for independence and meaning as they weigh their professional goals and community obligations against their growing dependence on local elite. Russia's sub-national levelsits provinces and communitiesremain understudied but important. Local newspapers are the only means by which news reaches many rural Russians, and Russia's heartland regions are a significant source of support for the current national regime. The book contributes importantly to our understanding of Russian journalism, and to our understanding of local journalism generally, an increasingly vulnerable institution in countries around the world. Russian Regional Journalism seeks answers to a number of questions: How do challenging p
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Section I: Russian Regional Journalism and Its Contexts – Introduction – Russia’s Regions and Regional Journalism: The Current Context – Local Russian Journalism as a Social Space: Field and Ecology Perspectives – Findings: The Three Regions, Their Journalism, Journalists and Communities – Russian Regional Journalism and Its Environments – Regional Journalists: Scarcity, Divisiveness and Persistence – Russian Regional Journalists in a Digital Era – Journalists’ Shifting, Versatile Roles – Cracks in the System: Journalists’ Pursuit of Autonomy – Conclusions: Daunting Challenges and Ways Forward – Methodology – Index.
