Michurinsk newspaper school (1934–1938). Pages of the journalistic education history

Abstract

We consider unknown facts from the history of journalistic education – about the functioning of the regional party newspaper school, which worked in Michurinsk in the 30s of the 20th century. The aim of the study is to introduce into scientific circulation new documents proving the existence of the regional party newspaper school in the Tambov Region. The relevance is connected with filling the gaps in the journalistic education history and the analysis of the school’s work in the context of today’s tasks of professional education. This research is interdisciplinary and is connected with history, pedagogy, philology in addition to journalism. We apply various sciences methods, including the ideographic method by which this phenomenon is described. The historical and typological method allows us to compare the past and the present of the process of professional journalistic education, to classify this historical object. The socio and cultural aspect of the study of this phenomenon, as part of a systematic approach to the study of journalism, is dictated by the need to determine the place and importance of the functioning of the newspaper school in the social paradigm of the 20th century. Main results: we specify and detail the facts of existence of the initial stage of professional education in journalism in the Tambov Region; we analyze various aspects of journalistic education in the newspaper school, including the organization of the educational process, the effectiveness of this form of education; also we substantiate the importance of this educational structure for the development of regional journalism of the 20th century.