ABSTRACT
Russian journalism has seen many changes in the post-Soviet era. Beginning in the 1990s, with their newfound political freedoms media outlets celebrated in triumph after the collapse of communism and continued what began during glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s. These unprecedented developments led to the journalism job market opening to anyone who wished to enter. New media laws adopted by the Russian Federation’s reformist government freed news outlets from state control and made it possible for market-based media to emerge.
