When will the Russian reporter come out. “Readers need to understand reality”: editor-in-chief of the Russian Reporter on the revival of the publication and long reports. Where such confidence

Lenta.ru: With the onset of the crisis, more and more publications are being closed. Is there a risk that the Russian Reporter will close?

Leibin: We will stand to the last. And while this last is not visible. But the transition to new format, of course, is related to the crisis, because part of our spending - on paper and printing - is rigidly tied to the exchange rate.

We considered the option of cutting costs. But recently, the Russian Reporter has already reduced its coverage so much, and in one issue we can no longer say everything we want. Therefore, we chose another solution - to reduce the number of exits, but to increase the volume of one issue. Plus, we continue to cut costs.

For what?

The three main items of expenditure are printing, distribution and staff. We are constantly optimizing the distribution system. We are working to sell more magazines where they sell best and less where they don't. If times were fat and incomes were high, we would rather invest more in distribution. We are also downsizing gradually. We will also raise the price of the room a little.

What will change inside the magazine itself?

The number will become thicker, and this will allow us to return to the old rubrics and add new ones. AT best years"Russian Reporter" we had such headings as "Story" and "Portfolio", in each issue - not only a big report, but also a big interview or essay about a person. This is all returned, including the completeness of the headings, which we have abandoned for economy.

In addition, some small rubrics will be added. We also want to bring back the fullness of the visual range, with reportage photos.

Most importantly, we want to bring back a large research report about Russia, which would be not only about current events, wars and crises, but on topics that we find ourselves, and not those dictated by the agenda and news agencies. This is what we know how to do best, but in recent years, due to economy, a significant amount of time has been occupied not by such reports, but by topical things.

Do you think it will be in demand now?

That is what is in demand. This allows you to see what cannot be seen in the news, in social networks. No matter how great we write a report from the scene of the conflict, it will still be a repetition. And a dramatic story about a person is something that has not yet been done, which you will not find on the Internet. It's certainly not trendy. social networks and short news items. We are in an anti-trend, but this is exactly where a person who is tired of noise goes. People are interested in reading about people. For this they take books, watch good films, read great reports.

That is, the magazine will not be about the momentary, but about the eternal. Some kind of almanac?

It will be a magazine with a long planning horizon. But we saw it that way when we invented it.

It turns out that you are moving away from the news.

In this genre, we cannot compete with newspapers and even more so with the Internet. We have a Featured section and it remains, but we've never tried to use it to communicate anything. We always had reports there, analytical articles or some new twist - infographics or interviews, that is, something that will not go out tomorrow. There are topical topics, but we are discussing them in such a way that they can be read in two weeks.

During the crisis, many publications went online. Do you have such plans?

Going online is a euphemism for saying that a publication is dead. enough on the internet advertising budgets have units of publications. There are news portals that have very cheap content with high traffic, they can become a plus. But there is no advertising market on the Internet to support a large and high-quality magazine, to pay for journalists' business trips.

But, of course, we are developing a joint website of "Expert" and "Russian Reporter", which has half a million readers a day. This is less than that of the leaders in production, but still a fairly large audience, which allows you to make the project unprofitable.

What is the fundamental difference between the Russian Reporter, which appeared in 2007, and the Russian Reporter, which will be published from the end of January?

When we started, we had hypotheses about who our hero was. Having made reports from different places, they began to understand social reality better. But now there are even more questions, they are more difficult than then. Previously, it seemed to us that there is a progressive middle class that should receive political rights. Now it doesn't look like a very relevant agenda. The country is in crisis and the class structure is not that important.

The problem of a person comes to the fore, not just his survival, but his creative, conscious life. When there is fire around, war, and a person continues to be a person despite the fact that nothing has anything to do with it. What allows a person to maintain dignity? This is precisely the key issue of this period. It intersects with the question of the meaning of life, but both Russian literature and large reports somehow raise it.

To what extent is the Russian Reporter interesting to people now, how is it being sold?

We are still read by students, the middle class, there is a demand. The last issue that we published, I could not buy yesterday. It ended in the editorial office, and in many kiosks that I went through. This, of course, is largely a consequence of our savings, but there is demand. We remain the largest federal publication in the regions in terms of sales. It is clear that we have competition in the capital, but if we look in the regions, there is almost none.

Is there a subscription to the Russian Reporter, or is no one using it anymore?

Subscription is important to us, but not the key to our distribution. Older editions have more of it. We have a corporate subscription, but it is almost impossible to use the mail one. Russian Post is not very helpful in this. We have a lot of subscribed readers who don't wait and buy the magazine from the kiosk.

How are you planning to survive?

But against the background of the crisis, it can only become less. Is not it so?

Where such confidence?

We already have pre-orders for advertising. Advertisers were sympathetic to the change in the release frequency, it seems that we are not losing orders. There are not so many ads, so it will all fit.

Employees of the Russian Reporter have long complained about salary delays. How is the situation with this at the moment?

We have financial difficulties in the company, now the debts are being paid. I am very grateful to the editors who continue to work. In recent years, our big reporters had to work for several publications, however, many of them did not leave, but continue to work for the Russian Reporter, because they like it.

How do you see the future of the Russian media in crisis conditions?

Hard times are coming for everyone. Some will close, some won't. We must try to endure. Those who persevere during this time will gain a large share of the market.

Interviewed by Alexandra Fedotova

While the circulation of newspapers and magazines is falling all over the world (even the famous Spiegel suffers losses!) And even eminent print publications are being closed, the Russian magazine Russkiy Reporter is confidently winning the battle for the reader against the Internet.

Why for Russian magazine"Russian reporter" Internet - not a competitor?

What is the secret of the success of this edition, which is already called phenomenal? Told about it Chief Editor"Russian reporter" Vitaly Leybin, who recently visited Riga at the invitation of the International Media Club "Format A3".

Many journalists came to the meeting with him, and the conversation turned to the most interesting thing - about the profession, which is now going through difficult times.

Quality journalism

After the meeting in Riga, immediately, by night plane, he flew to Moscow - in order to be in time for the editorial planning meeting. The topic of the next issue, "Russian Reporter", was born as soon as the death of the classic of modern literature Boris Strugatsky became known - to collect stories of famous people in Russia about how plots from the novels "Roadside Picnic", "It's Hard to Be a God" were refracted in their lives. , "Monday starts on Saturday" and others. The editor-in-chief, of course, had to explain the creative task to his colleagues and, honestly, it even became envious that it was not for us to carry it out ...

The weekly magazine "Russian Reporter" was published in 2007, and today its circulation is 165,000 copies. Say, not much for a huge Russia? But the average circulation printed edition rarely exceeds 25-30 thousand copies, with the exception of the “millionaire” Komsomolskaya Pravda and the Itogi magazine, the main competitor of the Russian Reporter.

Last year, the magazine led by Vitaly Leybin received the "Leader of sales in the print media market" award, and the upward trend continues. True, it is slowed down by a clumsy distribution system that does not allow delivering fresh issue magazine to small towns and villages, where the most attentive readers live. But the editor believes that it is quite realistic to take the bar of two million copies set by the German Stern.

Where does such self-confidence come from? After all, the crisis of paper media is evident. Newsweek magazine recently closed down, which worked in much the same way as the Russian Reporter.

Newsweek was too western, a copy from a foreign original, Vitaly explains. - Short notes, written according to the scheme, sleek language ... But all this is on the Internet, and for free. There are also enough people's journalists - bloggers and amateur reporters. It's all good. I myself was the editor-in-chief of the oldest Russian political project Polit.ru. But the Russian audience has a different reading culture, so professional journalism is worth fighting for.

And they are fighting... With every number that they do with passion and soul - like the last one...

Searching for the meaning of life

The phenomenon of the “Russian Reporter” has baffled many journalism professionals and marketing specialists, who are sure that the reader today has gone illiterate, with fragmented thinking, capable only of browsing the headlines on the Web and notes from the life of stars. But RR proves that this is not true! There are people in Russia who are ready to read long articles who are not afraid of complex sentences and "smart" words, and their number is increasing.

The creators of the magazine did not compete with the Internet, but offered what the Network cannot give - voluminous essays, richly illustrated high-quality pictures on good paper.

Two years in a row - in 2010 and 2011 - "The Russian Reporter" received an award for the best use of photography in print and once outperformed even such a master as National Geographic magazine.

The basis of the magazine is what is called a story in Western journalism - a story about ordinary person found themselves in unusual, dramatic conditions.

The magazine publishes reports from "hot" spots, drug dens, from the Arctic wintering, from the epicenter of the operation to capture the gang. Reporters do not get out of business trips and write about what they saw with their own eyes, what they experienced, and this gives the story authenticity and sincere intonation. Objective circumstances also contributed to the success of the publication.

Such a publication as the "Russian Reporter" became possible when Russia went on the rise and the middle class appeared, Vitaly believes. - If in the 90s everyone was busy fighting for survival, then those who solved this problem (since 2000 average salary in Russia grew more than ten times - from 50 to 700 dollars a month), allowed themselves the luxury of thinking about intangible things. About what, in fact, we live for ...

It is this universal approach to the topic that makes what happened in Kazan or in the Arctic interesting for the residents of Samara. It fully corresponds to the traditions of Russian journalism, which originate from Pushkin and Gilyarovsky. As for the direction of the publication, the Russian Reporter directly calls itself pro-Russian.

We are not for Putin, and even more so we are not against it, says Vitaly Leybin. - Our magazine tells about life as it is.

Vitaly believes that national publications are necessary because, like television, they "stitch" the country. (It is curious that a successful magazine was launched in the regions, and only then, having made people talk about itself, appeared in Moscow and St. Petersburg.)

RR has no shortage of authors. Many journalists wanted to take part in a professional competition. Journalists know how tempting it is, without shortening oneself, to write a full-fledged essay - about what you want and how you want.

Vitaly says that at first he was afraid to use the services of venerable journalists, believing that it would be difficult for them to adapt to the new format.

But I was wrong, he admits. - It turns out that if you give room for creativity, everyone writes easily and excitingly.

Direct from Assange

The real fame and the prestigious award "Power No. 4" in the "Scandal of the Year" nomination in 2010 was brought to the magazine by the publication of classified materials by Wikileaks. This right was given to the magazine, the only one in Russia, by Julian Assange himself, with whom Vitaly did an interview - a real journalistic success!

Convinced of the objectivity of the Russian Reporter, many began to offer editorial material for publication. When selecting them, the editor first asked the journalists what they would like to write about. Now he prefers to come in from the other side, wondering what they would like to read about.

The editor says that he never had to remove an article from a room on a call from above, but there were “hints” and threats.

The most dangerous thing is to write about showdowns at the local, city, district level. We try not to interfere with them.

Vitaly is happy to talk about the masterful journalistic work of his deputy Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich.

A gang was operating in Primorye, which killed policemen. The reporter took unique pictures at the moment of her detention. It would seem to be cool. But he doesn't stop there. He talks with the detainees and finds out that they went on the warpath after spending several days in the police, where they were beaten and humiliated. Can I go home? But Dmitry continues to dig. He learns that one of the best representatives of the profession fell first at the hands of the "avengers". It always happens this way: the victims of vengeance always turn out to be innocent... dangerous work, repeating: "Only over my dead body!" And so he called... The widow of the murdered man is trying on a uniform to take her husband's place.

Such a deep study of the topic - a property of high-quality journalism, is not cheap. Russian Reporter is part of Oleg Deripaska's media holding together with Expert magazine, Russia's leading and profitable business publication.

We are lucky: our owner loves publishing magazines! - says Vitaly.

But the circulation of "Expert" will soon reach the ceiling, because the number of businessmen, and hence the readers of the publication, will not increase, and therefore it was decided to explore another niche. The expectation that when the audience of the "Russian Reporter" grows, he, in turn, will feed the "parent".

The creators of the Russian Reporter are sure that a truly high-quality publication will always find its reader.

The magazine "Russian Reporter" is a fairly well-known weekly that does not shy away from leftist topics - trade unionist Valentin Urusov, defense of the Warsaw warehouse in St. Petersburg, sketches from the life of the anti-fascist movement. Despite the “jeans” that come across, such as articles glorifying individual regions and state monopolies, the Russian Reporter still generates interesting content.

However, the issue of payment wages permanent employees and fees to freelance authors in the publication costs an edge. So what to do? Get a job in the Kremlin media, where you exchange your conscience for money? Or to a little-known publication where they pay in "black cash"? Maybe even score and write for an interesting magazine, without bothering about material things?

Rules of the game

A little background to understand how the workflow works and why the typical ways to get the money owed do not help. The paper magazine and the site rusrep.ru, along with the financial weekly "Expert", are included in the holding CJSC "Expert". In the professional community, a history with resolute dispersal of the team "Expert-TV" with subsequent courts for the right to receive salaries is quite well known, but few people know that the story of annual deferrals of payments is still the history of the holding today.

Despite the pleasant staff of the editorial staff of the Russian Reporter, designed according to Labor Code journalists are also victims of the holding, who are paid in fits and starts - as a result, most professional correspondents, including freelancers, chose to leave without even receiving the amounts due. Those who have extra money on the side or those who travel on business trips remain to work. Despite the declared lack of funds, traveling authors receive all the money to the last penny.

The story of photographer Dmitry Markov, who described in LiveJournal his misadventures with receiving money, a trial, the absence of representatives of the publication and the inability to receive money with the help of bailiffs, is typical: “Now I get the familiar “tomorrow” in the form emails, dear editors do not strain: "We cannot answer the exact dates of payments, for technical reasons they are frozen." Graduates of journalism departments are ready to write to the journal for free - it is important for them to replenish their resumes and they do not even dream of receiving payment. The opportunity to get the sums due is "a surreptitious blow to your favorite magazine" and "sneaky".

Most of them come through "Media polygons" and educational programs"Summer Schools", which is done by the editor of the science department Grigory Tarasevich.

Who is responsible for what

Most of the authors, including freelancers, are limited to only writing to their editor once a month - those of them who have not yet quit say directly: “There is no money, you can sue, but this did not help anyone get money.” Others call the accounting department, where they shift the responsibility to financial director Vladimir Petrov, they say that they are not responsible for the accrual. The accountants themselves are also gradually leaving. In turn, Vladimir Petrov is not available either by phone or by e-mail.

Those who are more courageous contact Vitaly Leybin, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Reporter. He answers all questions: “Soon the magazine will receive money, be patient!”. You can endlessly wait for the weather by the sea, communicate with the accounting department and call CFO Vladimir Petrov. An analysis of court decisions in favor of injured authors who spent money on the court but did not receive money also does not give reason for optimism.

Behind the scenes threats

At the same time, the management is terribly afraid of publicity, armed with a voice recorder, I and several of my colleagues went in turn to meet with the holding's management. Each, to the best of his eloquence, said that he was ready to make the story public - the reaction followed. Tatyana Gurova, editor-in-chief of the Ekpert magazine, who is a member of the holding's board, acknowledged the legitimacy of the demands, lamented the crisis and asked in surprise: “Why didn't you come earlier? Only those who come personally get money here!

And indeed, a few weeks after the conversation with the promise to pay money to the recorder, the entire amount was paid, although many months after the date recorded in the contracts for the preparation of materials.

Unfortunately, in Russia, with rare exceptions, there is no practice of protecting one's rights among journalists, just as there is no functioning trade union. Therefore, the team of affected authors cannot publish this material under their own names. Any editor-in-chief will consider such an insider and a warning to colleagues as “taking rubbish out of the hut”, which means they will refuse possible cooperation.

Six months ago, after 10 years of work, the Russian Reporter magazine closed. They said that allegedly unnecessary large reports were gone with him. But on February 27, the issue of "PP" will resume. The first issue will be released with a circulation of 85,000 copies. The editor-in-chief of the publication Vitaly Leybin told Moments why reportage journalism is needed and what had to be changed for the sake of the revival of the Russian Reporter.


Russian Reporter will resume publication after a six-month hiatus

- Commenting on the closure of the magazine, you said that there were financial difficulties. What are their reasons?

— Perennial decline in the advertising market. We fought to the last. But the reduction was catastrophic - 60% of advertising annually, for three years. In general, the print press was shocked by the decline in the advertising market. Online advertising is growing slightly, but not enough to improve the online publishing economy.

- Some slandered that the reason was the loss of readers - they say, no one needs reports ...

- When switching to the release format once every two weeks, there was a decline, but very small. On the whole, the reader's demand for the Russian Reporter did not fall. All the time we measured the rating, it either grew or remained at a consistently high level.

The problem is not that the reader does not need a reporter's texture. And that no economic model has been found for the maintenance of such a press, except for external injections. The industry is in a huge crisis. All producers of expensive content - movies, music, books, quality journalism - are under pressure of lower quality free information. But this does not mean that people will prefer some meaningless illiterate text to real quality journalism.

“I am sure that there is a demand for real journalism” Photo: Anton Belitsky

- It's about the volume of the text. Over the 10 years of RR's existence, the world of media has changed dramatically. Experts say that the priority is short materials that can be read quickly.

— When RR first came out, we were told that the younger generation in modern world will only read short texts and headlines. But we found that there are a lot of young people among our audience, along with the Soviet reader.

At the same time, professional journalism is indeed between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, there are new Internet technologies, social networks. On the other hand, the information war. Both are characterized by short, ideologically clear statements. In general, it is in demand. But in order to remain sane and solid memory, readers would like to understand reality. If we completely lose attention to the details of our lives, to the reportage texture, I am afraid that our affairs are bad. And I am sure that there is a demand for real journalism.

- Did you notice this after the closing of the "RR"?

— We felt that the reader is in some shock because of our exit from the market. Brilliant reporting is done by some colleagues: Gazeta, Lenta, Takie Dela, Novaya Gazeta, and Komsomolskaya Pravda. But this is not enough - they are drowning in Internet garbage. On the other hand, fellow reporters found that a significant source of publications and interesting work had gone. There was also a reaction from civil society, philanthropists - an interest in the appearance of texts about the life of society.

“We are not commenting on sources of funding yet” Photo: Vitaly Leybin’s personal page on the social network

So you were offered help by sponsors?

— Yes. We found that we could find people interested in relaunching and people interested in reporting. We realized that we would have resources for publication for the period of the year at least. And they started right away.

- Can you tell me where the funds come from?

- Neither I, nor the holding (Expert media holding, - ed. note) have commented on the sources yet, but we assure you that there will be enough of them to be published in the near future. We also have an analytical judgment that the crisis in the acute phase, which we have been experiencing intermittently since 2009, is ending, and the country's economy is moving to growth. We think that we will be able to find both old markets and new ways of monetization on this wave.

- Which for example?

— Direct advertising in magazines is being replaced by the demand for stories, including those about business. We are ready to do them, including commercial basis. But not the way jeans are made - secretly and badly, but good - if it's a good thing. The model is changing from contemptuous towards the advertiser to sincere interest in the business. This does not mean that we will not distinguish between commercial and non-commercial texts, but paid materials require the same talent, the same work.

“Now we will pay more attention to life inside Russia” Photo: Vitaly Leybin’s personal page on the social network

- Following the economic policy, will the editorial also change?

- It will remain more or less the same with the amendment that before a significant part of our reporting efforts was connected with the war in Ukraine, and now it will be with our country. The war in Donbass continues, and we will pay attention to it, but we understand that it is important for the reader to read about himself, about life in Russia. And being a "Russian reporter" we must look, first of all, for internal stories. We will observe the proportions of materials as before, at the beginning of the work "PP". When the maximum number of materials related to life inside the country, internal conflicts.

- What place will Yekaterinburg take?

— Yekaterinburg from the very start "RR" showed greatest demand for the type of communication that we offer, a little less than Moscow and St. Petersburg. We love Yekaterinburg and consider it one of our main regions. And we have an explanation - this is a growing vibrant city with a large number of urban population, with more freedom than in other regions and a high demand for quality journalism.

Against the backdrop of the crisis, the weekly magazine "Russian Reporter" announced a reduction in the frequency of publication - a fresh issue will appear on newsstands once every two weeks. They also promise that the magazine will change its format, become thicker and return to the old headings. Vitaly Leybin, permanent editor-in-chief of the magazine, told Lente.ru about the crisis economy, ways of survival and popular formats.

With the onset of the crisis, more and more publications are closed. Is there a risk that the Russian Reporter will close?

We will stand to the last. And while this last is not visible. But the transition to a new format, of course, is associated with the crisis, because part of our expenses - for paper and printing - are strictly tied to the exchange rate.

We considered the option of cutting costs. But recently, the Russian Reporter has already reduced its coverage so much, and in one issue we can no longer say everything we want. Therefore, we chose another solution - to reduce the number of exits, but to increase the volume of one issue. Plus, we continue to cut costs.

For what?

The three main items of expenditure are printing, distribution and staff. We are constantly optimizing the distribution system. We are working to sell more magazines where they sell best and less where they don't. If times were fat and incomes were high, we would rather invest more in distribution. We are also downsizing gradually. We will also raise the price of the room a little.

What will change inside the magazine itself?

The number will become thicker, and this will allow us to return to the old rubrics and add new ones. In the best years of the Russian Reporter, we had such headings as “Story” and “Portfolio”, in each issue there was not only a big report, but also a big interview or essay about a person. This is all returned, including the completeness of the headings, which we have abandoned for economy.

In addition, some small rubrics will be added. We also want to bring back the fullness of the visual range, with reportage photos.

Most importantly, we want to bring back a large research report about Russia, which would be not only about current events, wars and crises, but on topics that we find ourselves, and not those dictated by the agenda and news agencies. This is what we know how to do best, but in recent years, due to economy, a significant amount of time has been occupied not by such reports, but by topical things.

Do you think it will be in demand now?

That is what is in demand. This allows you to see what cannot be seen in the news, in social networks. No matter how great we write a report from the scene of the conflict, it will still be a repetition. And a dramatic story about a person is something that has not yet been done, which you will not find on the Internet. This, of course, is not in the trend of social networks and short news items. We are in an anti-trend, but this is exactly where a person who is tired of noise goes. People are interested in reading about people. For this they take books, watch good films, read great reports.

That is, the magazine will not be about the momentary, but about the eternal. Some kind of almanac?

It will be a magazine with a long planning horizon. But we saw it that way when we invented it.

It turns out that you are moving away from the news.

In this genre, we cannot compete with newspapers and even more so with the Internet. We have a Featured section and it remains, but we've never tried to use it to communicate anything. We always had reports there, analytical articles or some new twist - infographics or interviews, that is, something that will not go out tomorrow. There are topical topics, but we are discussing them in such a way that they can be read in two weeks.

During the crisis, many publications went online. Do you have such plans?

Going online is a euphemism for saying that a publication is dead. On the Internet, few publications have sufficient advertising budgets. There are news portals that have very cheap content with high traffic, they can become a plus. But there is no advertising market on the Internet to support a large and high-quality magazine, to pay for journalists' business trips.

But, of course, we are developing a joint website of "Expert" and "Russian Reporter", which has half a million readers a day. This is less than that of the leaders in production, but still a fairly large audience, which allows you to make the project unprofitable.

What is the fundamental difference between the Russian Reporter, which appeared in 2007, and the Russian Reporter, which will be published from the end of January?

When we started, we had hypotheses about who our hero was. Having made reports from different places, they began to understand social reality better. But now there are even more questions, they are more difficult than then. Previously, it seemed to us that there is a progressive middle class that should receive political rights. Now it doesn't look like a very relevant agenda. The country is in crisis and the class structure is not that important.

The problem of a person comes to the fore, not just his survival, but his creative, conscious life. When there is fire around, war, and a person continues to be a person despite the fact that nothing has anything to do with it. What allows a person to maintain dignity? This is precisely the key issue of this period. It intersects with the question of the meaning of life, but both Russian literature and large reports somehow raise it.

To what extent is the Russian Reporter interesting to people now, how is it being sold?

We are still read by students, the middle class, there is a demand. The last issue that we published, I could not buy yesterday. It ended in the editorial office, and in many kiosks that I went through. This, of course, is largely a consequence of our savings, but there is demand. We remain the largest federal publication in the regions in terms of sales. It is clear that we have competition in the capital, but if we look in the regions, there is almost none.

Is there a subscription to the Russian Reporter, or is no one using it anymore?

Subscription is important to us, but not the key to our distribution. Older editions have more of it. We have a corporate subscription, but it is almost impossible to use the mail one. Russian Post is not very helpful in this. We have a lot of subscribed readers who don't wait and buy the magazine from the kiosk.

How are you planning to survive?

But against the background of the crisis, it can only become less. Is not it so?

Where such confidence?

We already have pre-orders for advertising. Advertisers were sympathetic to the change in the release frequency, it seems that we are not losing orders. There are not so many ads, so it will all fit.

Employees of the Russian Reporter have long complained about salary delays. How is the situation with this at the moment?

We have financial difficulties in the company, now the debts are being paid. I am very grateful to the editors who continue to work. In recent years, our big reporters had to work for several publications, however, many of them did not leave, but continue to work for the Russian Reporter, because they like it.

How do you see the future of the Russian media in crisis conditions?

Hard times are coming for everyone. Some will close, some won't. We must try to endure. Those who persevere during this time will gain a large share of the market.

Alexandra Fedotova

 

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