Yasen Zasursky welcomes online journalism

The Dean of the Moscow State University Journalism Faculty Yasen Zassoursky sees the future of Russian journalism in its strengthening through more active use of information technologies. “It is very important to consolidate journalism in the virtual sphere,” he said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta . - This is a global trend. And the virtual word is rapidly developing in Russia. ”

As a negative trend, Yasen Zassoursky mentioned the lack of attention of the pen workers to analytical genres. He is also worried about violations of journalistic ethics. But be that as it may, Russian journalists “show off samples of new, exciting, and mostly intelligent journalism.”