NCFU held the International Conference MEDIA-READS: View from Young Researchers, which brought together 130 participants from all over Russia and Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

The purpose of the event was to develop a place where youngsters could discuss various research outcomes, enhance their skills as well as get their well-deserved awards.

– We can hear more and more about drain of young staff from the research field. Now, we are trying to accumulate our research potential thus showing to everyone the level of our performance and analyze the situation. This sort of criticism is extremely important for those studying to become experts in Journalism, where one of the major skills implies analyzing the information you get, – Olga Lepilkina (Head of Dept for Journalism, NCFU) was quoted as saying.

The conference also included a contest or research works by the participants, which embraced 6 areas, and here come the winners:

• Svetlana Zakrutkina (Southern Federal University) – PRINT MEDIA IN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT AND AT THE PRESENT STAGE
• Valentina Chernysheva (North-Caucasus Federal University) –MODERN CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
• Marina Matsarskaya (North-Caucasus Federal University) – TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTING
• Svetlana Troshina (Saint Petersburg State University) – NEW MEDIA
• Vanessa Filbert (Siberian Federal University) – FORMS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF INTERNET JOURNALISM
• Anastasia Aleksakhina (North-Caucasus Federal University) – INFORMATION POLICY OF INTERNET MASS MEDIA
• Arseny Belolipsky (Astrakhan) – winner ща contest for schoolchildren