Ethnic Journalism in Russia

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Ethnic journalism as a profession and as a social mission received extensive coverage in academic literature in recent years. Attempts have been made to draw a line between ethnic, local, locative, diaspora, and community media ( Matsaganis et al., 2011 ), to study ethnic news media in a broad digitalization context (Yu & Matsaganis, 2019; Jamil, 2020 ) and to track current development trends of ethnic media in specific regions of the world ( Gladkova & Vartanova, 2021 ). Scholarly attention, however, has been so far centered primarily around ethnic journalism in Europe (Arnold & Schneider, 2007; Sahin, 2018 ) or North America ( Yu, 2018 ). Countries of the Global South remain underexplored when it comes to the analysis of ethnic journalism and ethnic news media ( Gladkova & Jamil, 2021 ). Overall, research approaching ethnic journalism in the Global South remains limited and often narrow in focus, not allowing for a broad cross-country comparative perspective. The aims of this chapter are therefore twofold. First, it will provide a wholistic understanding of ethnic journalism as a theoretical area (definition, concepts, key approaches) and as a professional field (audience, producers, owners, funders). Second, it will analyze ethnic journalism in countries of the Global South, aiming to reveal both common trends and specific features, typical for ethnic media in different countries of the region. Given unprecedented number of ethnic groups living in the countries of the Global South, an important role of ethnic media in securing ethno-cultural diversity, pluralism, multicultural understanding, equality, and inclusion (Husband, 2005), as well as the fact that minor ethnic groups are often underrepresented in public space due to many reasons – access to ICTs, literacy, different forms and levels of divides (age, gender, income, education, motivation, etc.) (Ragnedda, 2017) – we believe a study of ethnic journalism in the Global South is long overdue.7

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