Features of the reflection of economic issues by Russian internet media

Abstract

© International Research Publication House Economics remains one of the important topics raised in modern media and it requires a special approach from journalists. The reflection of economic issues in the mass media solves a number of significant tasks: it is designed not only to satisfy the needs of the audience in this type of mass media, but also to influence the authorities and business in order to make decisions that contribute to social development, if possible. The research is devoted to the analysis of economic materials and headings in leading Russian Internet publications, as well as in electronic versions of printed publications. They differ in a number of parameters: the status of their founder (state and commercial titles), their information policy implemented (pro-state or opposition). Attention was drawn to the problems of the materials, their linguistic features, genre specificity, locality and geographical boundaries of materials, the status of the author (journalist, expert), source (information from the media, press releases, official documents, etc.). The results of the study show that economic topics are represented quite widely. On the one hand, these are guidelines that promptly notify about relevant and significant processes in the economic sector; on the other hand, there are evaluative materials containing the author's position, and the clearly traceable information policy of publications.