The article analyzes the deformations of boundaries between literary and newspaper texts which took place in the 1920s. The paper identifies reasons and consequences of the levelling of boundaries between the two kinds of verbal art. The research is based on the published and archival works of V. P. Polonsky and pages of the magazine Pechat’ i Revolutziya (Press and Revolution).
The article deals with one of the vital issues of journalism, the issue consisting in singling out such a genre as interview among other similar ones in mass media (on the basis on newspaper and radio interviews).
The article defines system features of a special type of periodical that emerged in the early XXth century – a journal-manifesto. The typological assessment of the first representative of this type of media – of the journal Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) – is made.
In article the condition of periodicals of Tatarstan Republic in the Tatar language in 1990–1999 is considered, the changes in their ideas and topical orientation are allocated.