ABSTRACT
Practices of rank-and-file journalists where they are focused on the final product are fundamentally different from actions of all other agents: journalists are the only agents whose influence on the final product is not mediated by anybody else and, consequently, this influence does not have qualities of interaction between human beings. Therefore, though practices of newsmaking are generated and maintained almost exclusively by journalists, and thus may be interpreted in terms of agency and action, they have been usually viewed more as a structural influence of “journalistic routines.” I do not want to dispute this productive approach here, especially because Russian journalistic routines have not shown any meaningful difference from those described in other studies. Nevertheless, I want to briefly highlight the main components of those routines in order to position them among those journalistic practices that do involve interaction with others.
