Magazine as a tool for the general media education of target audience and potential authors in the 1920s (on the example of the “Siberian rabselkor” publication)

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to study the specialized journal of Novonikolaevsk (Novosibirsk) “Siberian rabselkor”. This publication played a large role in the development of regional media education in the 1920s. The author analyzed the working methods of the editorial board of the journal aimed at the formation of professional abilities among freelance newspaper correspondents. Among them were the main provisions of the theory of journalism based on examples of specific author publications, analysis of positive and negative samples of information materials, discussion of problematic issues of the rabselkor movement. Results. The article identifies the types of organization of feedback from the editorial staff and readers of the magazine: involving freelance correspondents in the discussion of discussion issues, summarizing the experience of the editorial boards of the best wall newspapers and the work of the rabselkor circles, publishing readers’ suggestions for improving rabselkor’s work. Conclusion. The editors of the magazine “Siberian rabselkor” paid attention not only to the ideological and political content of the rabselkor’s materials, but also to their form. Acute issues related to the problems of the rabselkor movement were discussed on the pages of the journal in the form of a dispute. Thus, the magazine was a necessary tool for regional media education of a mass audience.