The third International school and student mass-media festival ?Giraffe-Mass Media? includes competitions:

?       ?Youth television meridian? (television);

?       ?Optimistic radio? (broadcasting);

?       ?Fluent pen? (periodicals);

?       ?Inet? (Internet journalism);

?       ?Universal journalist? (competition-experiment).

Festival venue: 454080, Chelyabinsk, avenue of V.I. Lenin, 76, the South Ural State University.

Duration: 13 of 16 of April, 2011.

The festival motto: ?Let?s join hands, friends!?.

Festival symbol: a giraffe, because this animal has a natural curiosity, endurance and friendliness ? qualities necessary to real journalists. Also Giraffe ? a symbol of the Faculty of Journalism SUSU and faculty of the student newspaper.

Project ?Giraffe-mass media? ? a wonderful opportunity to express themselves in different kinds of media, not only for Russian but also for foreign pupils and students.

 

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL

?       Providing a wide information and cultural exchanges between schools, higher schools of Russia, CIS and foreign countries;

?       Aesthetic and ethical education of youth through its initiation to the spiritual riches of national and world culture;

?       Creating a socially important, educational, recreational student school print and online materials, as well as youth television and radio programs;

?       Formation and development of youth media and the Internet, television and radio.

 

FOUNDERS AND ORGANIZERS OF THE FESTIVAL

?       The Government of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       The Public Chamber of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       South Ural State University;

?       Office of extracurricular work SUSU;

?       Faculty of Journalism, SUSU;

?       Television and Radio Company ?SUSU-TV?;

?       The Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio (Moscow);

?       General Directorate of Press and Mass Communications of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       General Directorate of Youth Policy of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       Public Youth chamber at Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       Union of Journalists of the Chelyabinsk region;

?       The League of Young Journalists (Chelyabinsk).

 

PARTNERS OF FESTIVAL

?       ?Regional TV?;

?       The state television and radio company ?South Ural?;

?       Media holding ?31 Chanel?;

?       School of own correspondents RTR-SUSU;

?       Inter-regional public organization ?the information for all?;

?       Institute of improvement of professional skill of workers of television and radio (Moscow);

?       The center of the information and public relations SUSU;

?       Children?s film academy;

?       The newspaper ?the South Ural view?;

?       Information agency ?UralPressInform?;

?       Site ?74.ru?;

?       Media holding ?Radio-Continental?;

?       The newspaper of SUSU ?Technopolis?.

 

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

International school and student mass-media festival ?Giraffe-Mass Media? is held in accordance with the program of the festival.

?       opening of the festival;

?       open views, plays, discussion submitted to the contest of journalistic materials;

?       master classes with leading Russian and foreign journalists, editors and experts of print and Internet media, television and radio;

?       awarding ceremony for winners and participants of the contest (dress code: evening gowns and suits);

?       сultural program;

?       closing of the festival.

 

ASSESSMENT OF WORK

It is created a special youth jury of the festival for evaluation of each category of the competition. Results of the contest will be summarized by a joint committee composed of representatives of a special youth jury.

Chairman of the Joint Committee (Jury) ? Honorary Russian filmmaker, producer and president of Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio (Moscow), V.D. Ruzin.

Co-Chairs Committee (Jury):

?       professor, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Southern Ural State University, Head cathedra of ?media? L.P. Shesterkina;

?       general Director of Media Holding ?Radio-Continental? G.B. Roizman;

?       editor in chief of the regional edition of the South Urals Panorama
A.V. Dragunov;

?       director of the Information Agency ?UralPressInform? G.N. Ivanova;

?       chief editor of ?74.ru? S.V. Krapivin;

and others.

As a result of the festival are awarded:

?       Grand Prix (laptop) for work done in any genre and served in any category;

?       diplomas of winners of all competitions;

?       diplomas of participants of the festival.