Runetology (138): Editor-in-Chief of Cnews.ru Maxim Kazak

Maxim Kazak about the history of the creation of CNews, about the market of specialized media from a business point of view and from a journalism perspective, about the prospects of the Russian IT industry, about the Cnews Forum, how Cnews.ru works from the inside, and much more.


Interview with a guest:

• Is there high-quality IT journalism in Russia?
• Do Cnews.ru and RBC audiences overlap?
• How old is Cnews.ru profitable?
• What should novice IT journalists write about?
• How did the IT-editions in the early 2000s?
• How was the editorial policy in Cnews.ru?
• “For those publications that write only about mobile phones, the range of advertisers and partners is limited, so they are very dependent. CNews advertisers, thanks to our extensive thematic coverage, hundreds. We have a very diversified business both by advertisers and by type of business, so we can afford to refuse advertising budgets in case we encounter blackmail by advertisers. ”
• How strong is the corruption component in public procurement?
• How does Cnews.ru work from the inside?
• Why do you need Cnews Forum?
• What is the situation with informatization in the Russian army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
• How much is the US IT market more than the domestic one?
• Why didn't the paid subscription model work in Russia?
• Who competes with Cnews.ru?
• Will competitors from the West come to the domestic market of IT journalism?
• Is there a shortage in the journalism market?
• “We have been observing how the industry is developing for 10 years. Obviously, as of today, there are both successes and failures. One of the main failures is the skulling of the hardware business in Russia. If 10 years ago, Russian assemblers of computer equipment dominated the market, today there is no trace of their dominance. In fact, international vendors managed to completely oust Russian assemblers of computers from the market, primarily due to the fact that desktops were replaced by laptops. Russian assemblers could not rebuild, could not produce laptops of proper quality, with this technological transition, they lost the market. The same thing happens in the server market. Russians lost their iron business. ”
• Does Russia have an information technology development strategy?
• What is the dynamics of relations between the state and IT?

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