The Topic of Stress in Russian Professional Media for Journalists

Abstract

The article analyzes the content of two popular professional media for journalists in Russia – the Journalist magazine and Sdelano.Media official websites. The focus of the study is to understand the conceptual orientation, readership, editorial approaches to the topic of stress.The article analyzes the range of thematic materials on the websites, high-lights the subject of the most popular thematic blocks among regional journalists in Penza region through a survey conducted by the author, identifies what place takes the mental health in content structure of professional media. The article pays great attention to the texts that discuss the peculiarities of journalistic stress and the practical value of such content for media employees and press services. This approach allows for a characterization of the local practice of journalism and the strategies that make it possible to talk about journalistic stress in an uncertain geopolitical situation.